How are two men that seem so different in life, liberty and character comparable? ... He met with his mother a few times as a very young boy, until her sick and untimely death, and was also separated from his brothers and sisters. ... "The joy of my sisters and my mother, and, indeed, of all the family, was such that it humbled me, and made me sorry that I hadn't submitted to a hundred whippings..."... Who doesn't have someone that gives them a hard time? ...

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Heard them up, pack them off, and give them the inside room in the badlands. ... Giving him a scrap of paper won't change him. ... But the democracy I want to fight for, Hitler is not depriving me of. I know the people the people who have kept me away from it for seventy-five years by rifles and revolvers , by state law and lynch law. ... They were referred to as "Christ killers" and persecuted for his death. ...

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Not until eighth grade when my mother told me to read Malcolm X's autobiography did I learn who he was. ... My mom knew to tell me to study X because she was not taught about him in school. Her purpose of me learning about X was to pass on a sense of identity, history, and cultural pride. The claiming back of history and racial pride that Malcolm X stressed was given to me by my mother. ... Louis Farrakhan called him a "cowardly hypocritical dog" who "is worthy of death." ...

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Introduction The Middle Passage is the crossing of the Ocean from Africa to America of African people, who passed from the state of liberty to the state of slavery, and took place between the XVI and XIX centuries. ... The Diaspora gives birth to a new human being: the African American, who links together the African and the American culture. ... "Voyage Through Death / To Life Upon these Shores" symbolizes the apex of the construction of the Middle Passage; this is an emphatic claim to life, signifying the arrival of a new people on the scene of the New World. ... Thoughts of his ow...

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