Coined by Malcolm X, appropriated by KRS-ONE. Not an exhortation to violence, but a call to creativity, ferocity, and open-mindedness in working out solutions to anything - ably shown in cut-and-paste Hip-Hop Culture. The phrase has since bubbled up to the mainstream, and has been adopted (in bastardized, "ends-justify-the-means" form) as a motto of capitalism (and politics), though it has antecedents - e.g., the slave trade that brought some of Malcolm's ancestors to the New World.