○  malcolm x: the ballot or the bullet  ○

is: you and i in america are faced not with a segregationist conspiracy, we're faced with a government conspiracy. everyone who's filibustering is a senator -- that's the government. everyone who's finagling in washington, d.c., is a congressman -- that's the government. you don't have anybody putting blocks in your path but people who are a part of the government. the same government that you go abroad to fight for and die for is the government that is in a conspiracy to deprive you of your voting rights, deprive you of your economic opportunities, deprive you of decent housing, deprive you of decent education. you don't need to go to the employer alone, it is the government itself, the government of america, that is responsible for the oppression and exploitation and degradation of black people in this country. and you should drop it in their lap. this government has failed the negro. this so-called democracy has failed the negro. and all these white liberals have definitely failed the negro.

so, where do we go from here? first, we need some friends. we need some new allies. the entire civil-rights struggle needs a new interpretation, a broader interpretation. we need to look at this civil-rights thing from another angle -- from the inside as well as from the outside. to those of us whose philosophy is black nationalism, the only way you can get involved in the civil-rights struggle is give it a new interpretation. that old interpretation excluded us. it kept us out. so, we're giving a new interpretation to the civil-rights struggle, an interpretation that will enable us to come into it, take part in it. and these handkerchief-heads who have been dillydallying and pussy footing and compromising -- we don't intend to let them pussyfoot and dillydally and compromise any longer.

how can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? how then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours? you haven't even made progress, if what's

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