"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
~ Malcolm X ~












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"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
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