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Malcolm X Quotes: History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.
         

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


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



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