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If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. but if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. and what america is trying to do is pass laws to force whites to pretend that they want negroes into their schools or into - in their places of employment.
-Malcolm X
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Malcolm X
If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. but if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. and what america is trying to do is pass laws to force whites to pretend that they want negroes into their schools or into - in their places of employment.
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