○  malcolm x: the ballot or the bullet  ○

o be come conscious of the importance of controlling the economy of our community. if we own the stores, if we operate the businesses, if we try and establish some industry in our own community, then we're developing to the position where we are creating employment for our own kind. once you gain control of the economy of your own community, then you don't have to picket and boycott and beg some cracker downtown for a job in his business.

the social philosophy of black nationalism only means that we have to get together and remove the evils, the vices, alcoholism, drug addiction, and other evils that are destroying the moral fiber of our community. we our selves have to lift the level of our community, the standard of our community to a higher level, make our own society beautiful so that we will be satisfied in our own social circles and won't be running around here trying to knock our way into a social circle where we're not wanted. so i say, in spreading a gospel such as black nationalism, it is not designed to make the black man re-evaluate the white man -- you know him already -- but to make the black man re-evaluate himself. don't change the white man's mind -- you can't change his mind, and that whole thing about appealing to the moral conscience of america -- america's conscience is bankrupt. she lost all conscience a long time ago. uncle sam has no conscience.

they don't know what morals are. they don't try and eliminate an evil because it's evil, or because it's illegal, or because it's immoral; they eliminate it only when it threatens their existence. so you're wasting your time appealing to the moral conscience of a bankrupt man like uncle sam. if he had a conscience, he'd straighten this thing out with no more pressure being put upon him. so it is not necessary to change the white man's mind. we have to change our own mind. you can't change his mind about us. we've got to change our own minds about each other. we have to see each other with

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