"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 Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Government Quotes

“Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, they must have some boundaries. I am against hitting them though; just send the vibe and that will do it.”
“I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.' 'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.”
“Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.”
“When I was in my first year of college at Logan, Utah, I bought an old car for a hundred dollars. I was eighteen and thought that I knew all about driving. It was Christmastime, and my parents were living on a ranch in Wyoming. I picked up my two grandmot.”
“I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients.”
“I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.”
“I'd like to be a piano player.”
“Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.”

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