"And as soon as the public accepts the fact that the dark-skinned community
consists largely of criminals or people who are dirty, then it makes it possible
for the power structure to set up a police-state system. Which will make it
permissible in the minds of even the well-meaning white public for them
to come in and use all kinds of police methods to brutally suppress the
struggle on the part of these people against segregation, discrimination,
and other acts that are unleashed against them that are absolutely unjust."

- El Hajj El Shabazz (Malcolm X) from a speech delivered at the London
School of Economics, Feb. 11, 1965, to a meeting sponsored by the school’s
Africa Society

From a speech delivered at the London School of Economics, Feb. 11, 1965, to a meeting sponsored by the school’s Africa Society. Click here to read entire speech. Click here for more about Malcolm.