○ malcolm x: the ballot or the bullet ○
last but not least, i must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. the only thing that i've ever said is that in areas where the government has proven itself either unwilling or unable to defend the lives and the property of negroes, it's time for negroes to defend themselves. article number two of the constitutional amendments provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun. it is constitutionally legal to own a shotgun or a rifle. this doesn't mean you're going to get a rifle and form battalions and go out looking for white folks, although you'd be within your rights -- i mean, you'd be justified; but that would be illegal and we don't do anything illegal. if the white man doesn't want the black man buying rifles and shotguns, then let the government do its job.
that's all. and don't let the white man come to you and ask you what you think about what malcolm says -- why, you old uncle tom. he would never ask you if he thought you were going to say, "amen!" no, he is making a tom out of you." so, this doesn't mean forming rifle clubs and going out looking for people, but it is time, in 1964, if you are a man, to let that man know.
if he's not going to do his job in running the government and providing you and me with the protection that our taxes are supposed to be for, since he spends all those billions for his defense budget, he certainly can't begrudge you and me spending $12 or $15 for a single-shot, or double-action. i hope you understand. don't go out shooting people, but any time -- brothers and sisters, and especially the men in this audience; some of you wearing congressional medals of honor, with shoulders this wide, chests this big, muscles that big -- any time you and i sit around and read where they bomb a church and murder in cold blood, not some grownups, but four little girls while they w
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