What made Malcolm X
Shabazz a great man, is that he had the guts to say what nine-tenths of American
Negroes would like to say but don't have the guts to say.
A Chicago doctor, Militant,
19 April 1965, p.2
He taught me that I
was more than a Little Black Sambo or kinky hair or nigger.
a Harlem woman
about Malcolm X, Marlene Nadle, "Burying Malcolm X", Village Voice, March 4,
1965, p. 10
Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a
day.
Betty Shabazz,
in an interview shortly before Malcolm's murder.
…I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability
to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent
spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had
a great concern for the problems we face as a race.
Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. in a telegram to Betty Shabazz after the murder of Malcolm X.