Manning Marable famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Manning Marable

#Men #Black #Full Potential
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.
-- Manning Marable

#Use #Hierarchy #Conservative
At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.
-- Manning Marable

#Heart #America #Race
Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are â€œuniversally accepted.â€
-- Manning Marable

#Racist #Faces #Accepted
The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
-- Manning Marable

#Running #Creativity #Political
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
-- Manning Marable

#Political #Black #Development
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.
-- Manning Marable

#Black And White #Self #America
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.
-- Manning Marable

#Meaningful #Educational #Men
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.
-- Manning Marable

#Struggle #Understanding #Vision
I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.
-- Manning Marable

#Thinking #America #Historical
There is no direct evidence that [Alex] Haley sat down with the F.B.I.
-- Manning Marable

#Alex #Haley #Evidence
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.
-- Manning Marable

#Thinking #America #Years
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.
-- Manning Marable

#Organization #Political #Black
I believe that the FBI clearly was concerned, wanted to monitor and disrupt Malcolm X wherever possible.
-- Manning Marable

#Believe #Fbi #Wanted
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.
-- Manning Marable

#Struggle #Years #Organization
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.
-- Manning Marable

#Men #Years #Shooting
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.
-- Manning Marable

#Cutting #Curves #Facts
Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.
-- Manning Marable

#Artist #Black #Generations
I'm not an attorney or a person who does intellectual property .
-- Manning Marable

#Intellectual #Doe #Attorney
[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to peace and the freedom of racialized minorities.
-- Manning Marable

#Strong #Kings #Commitment
One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you their own stories, is that there's this paradox of the absence of critical information.
-- Manning Marable

#Believe #Stories #Research
[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books.
-- Manning Marable

#Book #Writing #Editors
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.
-- Manning Marable

#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.
-- Manning Marable

#Sight #Islam #Events
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.
-- Manning Marable

#Opportunity #Thinking #Government

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