○  malcolm x: the ballot or the bullet  ○

any time uncle sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle. he had to sign a truce. america's not supposed to sign a truce. she's supposed to be bad. but she's not bad any more. she's bad as long as she can use her hydrogen bomb, but she can't use hers for fear russia might use hers. russia can't use hers, for fear that sam might use his. so, both of them are weapon-less. they can't use the weapon because each's weapon nullifies the other's. so the only place where action can take place is on the ground. and the white man can't win another war fighting on the ground. those days are over the black man knows it, the brown man knows it, the red man knows it, and the yellow man knows it. so they engage him in guerrilla warfare. that's not his style. you've got to have heart to be a guerrilla warrior, and he hasn't got any heart. i'm telling you now.

i just want to give you a little briefing on guerrilla warfare because, before you know it, before you know it. it takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you're on your own. in conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people with you to back you up -- planes over your head and all that kind of stuff. but a guerrilla is on his own. all you have is a rifle, some sneakers and a bowl of rice, and that's all you need -- and a lot of heart. the japanese on some of those islands in the pacific, when the american soldiers landed, one japanese sometimes could hold the whole army off. he'd just wait until the sun went down, and when the sun went down they were all equal. he would take his little blade and slip from bush to bush, and from american to american. the white soldiers couldn't cope with that. whenever you see a white soldier that fought in the pacific, he has the shakes, he has a nervous condition, because they scared him to death.

the same thing happened to the french up in french indochina. people who just a few years pre

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