February Quote by Manning Marable

I have asked James Shabazz, I've asked other people who are members of the OAAU, Herman Ferguson and others, what led to that disastrous…

— Manning Marable

The MMI brothers, who provided security for Malcolm X had been trained by Malcolm himself that inside of the Nation of Islam, whenever there…

— Manning Marable

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

New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already.

— Mort Sahl

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 security guards aren't allowed to carry guns, I don't have to obey their made up rules.

— Daniel Tosh

“They passed a law that said I couldn’t put my hands in my pockets. Do you know why? Because they would become concealed weapons.…

— David Wong

The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, not to control guns, but to control blacks.

— Robert Sherrill

I believe that the FBI clearly was concerned, wanted to monitor and disrupt Malcolm X wherever possible.

— Manning Marable

“Perhaps as many as two hundred thousand black men were snared into the convict labor system on a variety of pretexts. One of the…

— Nicholas Johnson

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

— Cesare Beccaria

Malcolm's X objective was actually to reingratiate himself within the Nation of Islam, that because he had emerged by the early 1960s as a…

— Manning Marable