“It [the assassination of John F. Kennedy] was, as I saw it, a case of ‘the chickens coming home to roost.’ I said that the hate in white people had not stopped with the killing of defenseless black people, but that hate, allowed to spread unchecked, had finally struck down the nation’s Chief Magistrate.”
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
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