APAD: The chickens come home to roost.

Eventually, bad deeds or words come back to bite the originator.

 

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I first heard the karmic expression in the movie "Malcolm X."

 

    Reporter: Mr. X. Don't you even feel a bit of remorse, saddened by President

    Kennedy's assassination?

 

    X: Well sir, I don't think anyone here will deny that when you send chickens

    out in the morning from your barnyard, those chickens will return that

    evening to your barnyard, not your neighbor's barnyard. I think this is the

    prime example of the devil's chickens coming back home to roost. That the

    chikens he sent out, the violence that he's perpetrated here and abroad, be

    it the four children in Birmingham or Medgar Evers, or in Africa. I think

    the same violence has come home to claim one of their own. Being a farm boy

    myself, chickens coming home to roost never made me sad. In fact, it only

    made me glad.

 

It was political suicide. Next, Malcolm was gagged and kicked out of the Nation

of Islam. Before long, he was himself assassinated.