"They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector'……" — Malcolm X

"They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object."

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