JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR: She saw her husband assassinated, leaving her alone to raise six children. In the process, she helped raise the nation's conscience. Now that nation remembers Betty Shabazz who just hours ago died from severe burns suffered in a fire three weeks ago.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In 1956, Sister Betty X met Malcolm X, a rising star in the nation of Islam. Two years later he proposed and within five years they had four daughters. In early 1965 at a ballroom in Harlem where Malcolm was speaking, three men from the nation of Islam gunned him down as Betty covered her girls on the floor. Just 29, pregnant with twins, Betty Shabazz was left to bring up her children alone.</s>BETTY SHABAZZ, WIDOW OF MALCOLM X: One of the things that Malcolm always said to me: don't be bitter, remember Lot's wife. When they kill me, and they surely will, you have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do.</s>ATTALLAN SHABAZZ, DAUGHTER: Our mother has made a transition. I'd like to think of it as that. Her living life was very strong and her fight here showed that endurance.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Their mother had been known by many names and in many roles, above all, perhaps, as a mother figure to her entire race and a messenger of peace to every race.
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