Gennaro Angiulo Quotes
When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he's gonna kill ya.
Lehr, Dick, and Gerard O'Neill. The Underboss: The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family. St. Martin's Press, 1989.
Malcolm was not an enthusiast of non violent, passive resistance a la Martin Luther King. He did not generally advocate general violence per se, but did preach the doctrine of the 21st century National Rifle Association: That everyone should be armed and use the weapons to thwart criminal attacks on them and their families. However at the time, many police departments commonly broke the law and attacked Blacks in many ways. If Malcolm had more followers there could easily have been armed pitched battles between blacks who had been attacked and police who even if their colleagues had violated the law, would not allow citizen armed defense. The non-violence of King and others, accomplished the objective with relatively few people killed and wounded. They were virtually all Black or white sympathizers however. The racists bore no physical casualties but their culture and way of life was destroyed.
Gennaro Jay "Jerry" Angiulo Sr. was an Italian-American New England mob underboss who rose through the Mafia under Raymond L. S. Patriarca in the Patriarca crime family. He was convicted of racketeering in 1986 and was in jail until being released in 2007. One of the Angiulo Brothers, Angiulo was "probably the last very significant Mafia boss in Boston’s history".
