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QUOTES
ABOUT MALCOLM X
"Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven
a day."
-- Betty Shabazz, in an interview shortly before Malcolm's
murder
"...I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race."
--
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a telegram to Betty Shabazz after the murder of
Malcolm X
"The black student group I was in wrote him a letter saying we'd heard he'd suspended security provisions - people weren't being searched fully like before. We told him we thought that was not wise, in fact more security should be in place. He wrote back, and after thanking us, said, 'Brothers, our people are patted down and knocked down every day of their lives. We want them to come in here and know that they are among their brothers and sisters.'"
-- James Turner, founding director of Africana Studies at Cornell University
"I had just moved to Harlem. It was the first night I was there, and I went for a walk and there was a rally going on. Of course, I had heard about Malcolm before that, but it was mostly the kind of negative things they were running about him in the press then. I felt as if I was hearing the truth. I had never heard anyone speak with such clarity and forcefulness. And he just stimulated me. I found if he mentioned a book or a magazine article, I would try to find it. You hear people use that cliché about the University of the Streets. It really was that."
--
A. Peter Bailey, journalist
"Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.. Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. .We will answer and say unto them, 'Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? .For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'"
-- Ossie Davis, actor, in his eulogy at Malcolm X's funeral
"This was a brother you could believe. There was the sense that he was not in it for something. That was the extraordinary thing about him. He was in it because of his commitment to our liberation."
-- James Turner, founding director of Africana Studies at Cornell University
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