There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America's jails who were so taken by Malcolm {X's} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class {black} leaders were not warriors; they were professionals; they were careerists. But these warriors had callings, and they have paid an incalculable and immeasurable price in those cells.
( Cornel West )
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