“I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.”
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Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 221.
“Although personal calling I sense—who am I? even if I am, I don't know.”
“If I Am,” p. 7
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “Recircling”
“And please don't call me that."
I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.”
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society
Source: Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy (2021), p. 17
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
Context: They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice." I feel that if white people were attacked by Negroes — if the forces of law prove unable, or inadequate, or reluctant to protect those whites from those Negroes — then those white people should protect and defend themselves from those Negroes, using arms if necessary. And I feel that when the law fails to protect Negroes from whites' attacks, then those Negroes should use arms if necessary to defend themselves. "Malcolm X advocates armed Negroes!" What was wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong. I was a black man talking about physical defense against the white man. The white man can lynch and burn and bomb and beat Negroes — that's all right: "Have patience"..."The customs are entrenched"..."Things will get better."
Source: McEnany Tells CNN Reporter 'I Don't Call on Activists' at Press Briefing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaixxDwcsQQ (November 20, 2020) Youtube video
Source: Speaking in 1958 with Charles Hamblett; as quoted in The Hollywood Cage (1969) by Hamblett, reproduced in "The Hollywood Cage': Wayne Has Method, Goldwyn Has Hope, Welles Has Wasteland" by Hamblett, The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 4, 1969), p. 109
Context: That's the John Wayne method.
