"Read the full context before judging quotes Malcolm X's most infamous quote — that Kennedy's assassination was "a case of chickens coming home to roost" — was used to suspend and ultimately expel him from the Nation of Islam and cement his image as heartless in the public mind. But the hosts point out that "if you go back and read that stuff, you find there"s so much more context to the stuff he's quoted for' — a long chain of reasoning that, when read in full, sounds considerably more measured. The practical takeaway: before forming a strong opinion about any person based on a pull quote, seek out the surrounding argument, because the pull quote is almost always chosen to provoke rather than to inform. Source: Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant, Stuff You Missed in History Class, Malcolm X"