Latest Manning Marable Quotes from Interviews

• Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle. As his vision became more internationalist and pan-African, as he began, especially in 1964, after seeing the example of anti-colonial revolutions abroad and began to articulate and incorporate a socialist analysis economically into his program, he clearly became a threat to the US state.

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  Struggle, Understanding, Vision

  Fuente: historynewsnetwork.org

• MMI brothers were very resistant to women such as Lynn Shiflet and others who emerged as leaders within the OAAU, so one of the tensions that occurred was around gender equality and gender leadership inside of Malcolm's X entourage.

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  Brother, Leader, Entourage

  "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

• What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so, he began to reassess radically earlier positions sexism and patriarchy. He began to break with notions of sexism that he had long held as a member of the Nation of Islam, and began to advance and push forward women leadership in the OAAU.

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  Perspective, Long, Black

• Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if you do any analysis of his speeches.

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  Fuerte, Determinación, Compromiso

• Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm. One source of anger, curiously enough, was that - was the tension between MMI and OAAU, that the MMI, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated, these were women and men who had left the Nation of Islam out of loyalty to Malcolm, but then Malcolm continued to evolve rapidly.

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  Loyalty, Men, Islam

• There was deep knowledge on the part of members of the Nation of Islam regarding the planning, in sight of the OAAU and the Muslim Mosque Incorporated regarding the events at the Audubon. They knew when they were going to be there, they knew what the schedules were.

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  Sight, Islam, Events

  Fuente: historynewsnetwork.org

• We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he tried to flee the Audubon after shooting Malcolm X, we know that Hayer confessed years later to his Imam in prison that there had been a walk-through a week prior to February 21st [1965] at the Audubon Ballroom.

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  Men, Years, Shooting

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• Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by being a disruptive force inside of the Black Panther Party.

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  Party, Black, Nypd

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

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  Believe, Fbi, Wanted

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• There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think that this 40th anniversary of the assassination is a good opportunity for us to say that now is the time to declassify all FBI material on Malcolm X. There really is a need for us to challenge the US government for its refusal to open up its own archives 40 years after the death of Malcolm.

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  Oportunidad, Pensamiento, Gobierno

  Fuente: historynewsnetwork.org

• I believe that the evidence will show that there was not so much a conspiracy, but a convergence of interests with three different groups that had an interest in eliminating [Malcolm X] voice and his vision.

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  Believe, Voice, Vision

  "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". Interview With Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

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

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  Two, Would Be, Nypd

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• 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 decision [that the guards didn't carry weapons]? James Shabazz said to me with a shrug, you just didn't know Malcolm. Malcolm was adamant, and that whatever Malcolm wanted, that's what we just did.

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  People, Decision, Ferguson

  "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

• The guards didn't carry weapons. Malcolm X had insisted that the guards not carry firearms that day [February 21, 1965].

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  Weapons, February, Firearms

• Now, of course, people know that over the last several months prior to February 21st, 1965, the OAAU and MMI tried to get away from the old practices of checking people at the door for weapons. They wanted people to feel more comfortable.

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  Doors, Practice, People

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• Creo que ahora es el momento de volver a dedicarnos a conocer la verdad sobre lo que ocurrió el 21 de febrero [cuando fue asesinado Malcolm X ]. El lugar para empezar es hacer públicas todas las pruebas, y tenemos que empezar por el gobierno federal, y el FBI.

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  Thinking, Government, February

  "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

• The MMI brothers, who provided security for Malcolm X had been trained by Malcolm himself that inside of the Nation of Islam, whenever there is a diversion, you protect the principal. The principal, in this case Malcolm, clearly was not protected on February 21st [1965].

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  Brother, Islam, February

  Fuente: historynewsnetwork.org

• Two of the three men, who were imprisoned, Norman Butler and Robert 15x Johnson, convicted and given life sentences, I'm absolutely convinced were innocent. The real murderers of Malcolm X have not been caught or punished.

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  Real, Hombres, Dos

  "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

• Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle.

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  Struggle, Understanding, Vision

  Fuente: historynewsnetwork.org

• Tanto Malcolm X como Martin [Luther King] podrían haber desempeñado el papel de unificador, pero fue - Malcolm mientras permaneció dentro de la Nación del Islam, hablando con los conversos, no representó una amenaza fundamental para el gobierno estadounidense.

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  Kings, Government, Talking

• I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward uniting black people across ideological, class lines, denominational religious lines, Christians, as well as Muslims, to build a strong movement for justice and for empowerment.

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  Christian, Religious, Strong

  Fuente: historynewsnetwork.org

• I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would gain an understanding as to why perhaps - perhaps - the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the New York Police Department and others in law enforcement greatly feared what Malcolm X was about, because he was trying to build a broad - an unprecedented black coalition across the lines of black nationalism and integration. And in way, it presages 30 years ahead of time, the Million Man March.

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  New York, Book, Believe

• Malcolm X already envisioning the N.O.I. playing a role cooperatively with integrationist organizations.

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  Organization, Roles, Envisioning

• Malcolm X envisions a broad-based pluralistic united front, which is spearheaded by the Nation of Islam, but mobilizing integrationist organizations, non-political organizations, civic groups, all under the banner of building black empowerment, human dignity, economic development, political mobilization.

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  Organization, Political, Black

  Fuente: historynewsnetwork.org

• In November 1963, [Malcolm X] gives his famous message to the grassroots address in Detroit, which really kind of marks off the real turning point in his own development.

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  Real, Giving, Development

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