Manning Marable Quotes

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

Martin Luther King told American Blacks not to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.

It is our family's hope that the true legacy and context of Malcolm X's life continues to be shared with people from all walks of life in a positive manner that helps promote the goals and ideals for which Malcolm X so passionately advocated.

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.

There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.

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

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

Through protest - especially in the 1950s and '60s - we, as a people, touched greatness. Protest, not immigration, was our way into the American Dream. Freedom in this country had always been relative to race, and it was black protest that made freedom an absolute.

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

I grew up in Illinois in an environment where my parents were very politically active in the civil rights movement.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

The struggle for freedom and justice is now.

You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.