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“Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.”

Source: “The Ballot or the Bullet”, speech in Cleveland, Ohio, 3 April 1964

Context Weeks after leaving the Nation of Islam, he urged Black Americans to take their cause to the United Nations as a human-rights issue.

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Malcolm XUnited States · 1925–1965
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