○  malcolm x: the ballot or the bullet  ○

being given to you, you should have had already. that's not progress. and i love my brother lomax, the way he pointed out we're right back where we were in 1954. we're not even as far up as we were in 1954. we're behind where we were in 1954. there's more segregation now than there was in 1954. there's more racial animosity, more racial hatred, more racial violence today in 1964, than there was in 1954. where is the progress?

and now you're facing a situation where the young negro's coming up. they don't want to hear that "turn the-other-cheek" stuff, no. in jacksonville, those were teenagers, they were throwing molotov cocktails. negroes have never done that before. but it shows you there's a new deal coming in. there's new thinking coming in. there's new strategy coming in. it'll be molotov cocktails this month, hand grenades next month, and something else next month. it'll be ballots, or it'll be bullets. it'll be liberty, or it will be death. the only difference about this kind of death -- it'll  be reciprocal. you know what is meant by "reciprocal"? that's one of  brother lomax's words. i stole it from him. i don't usually deal with those big words because i don't usually deal with big people. i deal with small people. i find you can get a whole lot of small people and whip hell out of a whole lot of big people. they haven't got anything to lose, and they've got every thing to gain. and they'll let you know in a minute: "it takes two to tango; when i go, you go."

the black nationalists, those whose philosophy is black nationalism, in bringing about this new interpretation of the entire meaning of civil rights, look upon it as meaning, as brother lomax has pointed out, equality of opportunity. well, we're justified in seeking civil rights, if it means equality of opportunity, because all we're doing there is trying to collect for our investment. our mothers and fathers invested sweat and blood. three hundred and ten years we worked in this

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