○  malcolm x: the ballot or the bullet  ○

which means segregation is against the law. which means a segregationist is breaking the law. a segregationist is a criminal. you can't label him as anything other than that. and when you demonstrate against segregation, the law is on your side. the supreme court is on your side.

now, who is it that opposes you in carrying out the law? the police department itself. with police dogs and clubs. whenever you demonstrate against segregation, whether it is segregated education, segregated housing, or anything else, the law is on your side, and anyone who stands in the way is not the law any longer. they are breaking the law; they are not representatives of the law. any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, i'm telling you, kill that dog. i say it, if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. then you'll put a stop to it. now, if these white people in here don't want to see that kind of action, get down and tell the mayor to tell the police department to pull the dogs in. that's all you have to do. if you don't do it, someone else will.

if you don't take this kind of stand, your little children will grow up and look at you and think "shame." if you don't take an uncompromising stand, i don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. i'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. but when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and i'm not responsible for what i do. and that's the way every negro should get. any time you know you're within the law, within your legal rights, within your moral rights, in accord with justice, then die for what you believe in. but don't die alone. let your dying be reciprocal. this is what is meant by equality. what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

when we begin to get in this area, we

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