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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

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By: Malcolm X

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Malcolm X was talking about the Civil Rights Movement.

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The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially women. We women have a great function to perform. The World needs us.

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By: Ruby Dee

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This whole thing of this 'war on drugs' and the mass incarcerations that have happened pretty much for the last 40 years has just decimated the black male population. It’s slavery. It's just slavery through and through, and it's just the same fear of the black male that existed back in the 1800s.

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By: Quentin Tarantino

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The filmmaker said on the Canadian talk show George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight in December 2012, when discussing the racial issues brought up in his film Django Unchained.