Bigger Quote by Manning Marable

The NYPD was ubiquitous. They were always around Malcolm X. Whenever Malcolm spoke, there would be one or two dozen cops all over the…

— Manning Marable

If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.

— Bobby Seale

Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to defend yourself.…

— Nat Hentoff

Malcolm X finally became the person he was meant and raised to be. He fought against the forces of racism to return to that.…

— Kekla Magoon

Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs.

— Muhammad Ali

Malcolm X was the national spokesperson of the N.O.I., and he wasn't represented in their own newspaper for over a year.

— Manning Marable

[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to…

— Manning Marable

“FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had made the Black Panthers a top priority and, naturally, had publicly “declared war” on them.”

— Radley Balko

I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward uniting black…

— Manning Marable

[James] Baldwin was a celebrity. A TV show like Kenneth Clark could put him aside of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. He…

— Raoul Peck

I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.

— Manning Marable