Manning Marable Quotes

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• I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.

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  Strength, Women, African American

  Manning Marable (1988). “The Crisis of Color and Democracy: Essays on Race, Class, and Power”

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• The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

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  Use, Hierarchy, Conservative

  Manning Marable (1980). “From the grassroots: essays toward Afro-American liberation”

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• As the years progress, what women and men will discover is that the most lasting and rewarding educational experiences come not from specific information provided in classroom lectures or assigned textbooks, but from the values obtained in active engagement in meaningful issues. We achieve for ourselves only as we appreciate the problems and concerns of others-and only as we see our own lives as part of a much greater social purpose.

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  Meaningful, Educational, Men

  Manning Marable (1997). “Black liberation in conservative America”, South End Pr

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• By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

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  Black And White, Self, America

  Manning Marable (1995). “Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics”, p.202, Verso

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• Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “universally accepted.”

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  Racist, Faces, Accepted

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• At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

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  Heart, Race, America

  Manning Marable (1997). “Black Liberation in Conservative America”, p.200, South End Press

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• 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

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• The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

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  Political, Black, Development

  Manning Marable, Russell Rickford (2015). “Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader”, p.76, Routledge

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• The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

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  Running, Creativity, Political

  "Manning Marable obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2011.

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

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  Thinking, America, Historical

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• There is no direct evidence that [Alex] Haley sat down with the F.B.I.

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  Alex, Haley, Evidence

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• I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, its outrage against structural racism and at the end of his life, a broad internationalist vision of emancipatory power far better than any other single individual that he shared with DuBois and Paul Robeson, a pan-Africanist internationalist perspective.

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  Thinking, America, Years

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• 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

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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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  Opportunity, Thinking, Government

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• Over a period of about year-and-a-half, Malcolm X and [Alex] Haley agreed to work with each other. They met usually after a long business day that Malcolm put in very tired. He would get there at about - either at Haley's apartment or they would meet at then Idyllwild Airport at a hotel, and Malcolm would be debriefed by Haley. He would talk, Haley would take notes.

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  Tired, Airports, Years

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• In the case of Alex Haley, Haley's material is located at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, primarily. But there are a whole series of elaborate steps that one has to - has to encounter in order to even begin to do research. There's an attorney. If you want to photocopy material from that archive, you have to get permission from the attorney beforehand.

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  Order, Encounters, Archives

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• Malcolm X broke with the N.O.I. in March 1964, and in that last 11 chaotic months, he spent most of the time outside of the United States. Nevertheless, he built two organizations in the spring of 1964. First, Muslim Mosque Incorporated, which was a religious organization that was largely based on members of the N.O.I. who left with him. It was spearheaded by James 67X or James Shabazz, who was his chief of staff. Then secondly was the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

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  Religious, Spring, Organization

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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

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• 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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• Malcolm X represents the cutting edge of a kind of critique of globalization in the 21st century. In fact, Malcolm, if anything, was far ahead of the curve in so many ways.

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  Cutting, Curves, Facts

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• Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.

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  Artist, Black, Generations

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• The Organization of Afro-American Unity was an organization that was a secular group. It largely consisted of people that we would later call several years later Black Powerites, Black nationalists, progressives coming out of the Black freedom struggle, the northern students' movement, people - students, young people, professionals, workers, who were dedicated to Black activism and militancy, but outside of the context of Islam.

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  Struggle, Years, Organization

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• 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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• [Alex] Haley felt he could make a solid case in favor of racial integration by showing what was - to white America - what was the consequence of their support for racial separatism that would end up producing a kind of hate, the hate that hate produced, to use the phrase that Mike Wallace used in his 1959 documentary on the Nation of Islam.

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  Hate, White, America

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• I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.

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  Development, Stage, Certain

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