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Black power means black dignity.

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Just as surely as you are proud to be white, we're proud to be black.

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Black is beautiful, baby.

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It's pretty.

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I always say to my brothers, I say, baby, don't worry about the white chicks.

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We got everything from chalk to charcoal in our own race.

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You see, black is beautiful.

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Black is beautiful.

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Black power means dignity.

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It means we're going to walk side by side with you or through you.

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We're going to be with dignity and integrity.

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We don't want any more than you have, and we're not going to accept any less than you have.

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That's black power.

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An insight into black power from Adam Clayton Paul, Floyd McKissick, Nathan Wright,

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Muhammad Ali, formerly Cassius Clay, Whitney Young, Eldridge Cleaver,

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Dick Gregory, Martin Luther King, Alex Papalon, Alexander Allen, H. Rap Brown,

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Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael, some of the men who speak for black power.

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We will define black power.

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He will listen and recognize it.

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That's all.

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The existentialist philosophers talk about the execution of victim relationship

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that is always prevalent in most of the world today, especially the non-white world,

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where they're fighting for their liberation.

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He says there are executioners and their victims.

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The executioners are self-imposed.

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The victims begin to fight and agitate for their liberation.

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They use all type of means to get their liberation.

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The revolutionary philosopher, Frantz Fanon, says that what happens is that the victim begins to agitate.

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He uses all types of means against his executioner in fighting for a position of equality.

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After he tries a number of means and they do not work,

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he then begins to imitate the means by which his executioner kept him down.

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That is usually through force and violence.

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He says, and then they begin to use it against them,

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breaking the one taboo that they've never been able to break,

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hitting back against the executioners.

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So that you ought not to be upset if we are violent,

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the United States taught us very well how to be violent.

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We're going to fight with our guns.

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We're not going to fight with looting anymore.

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We're going to get on the streets and we're going to woo them on the streets, in the ghetto.

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That's our land and that's where we're going to stay and that's where we're going to fight.

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We want to be free like the whites of this country want to be free.

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We believe that black power and the future black power is the future of the United States.

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Black people seek power and they must have power to change the conditions under which they live.

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When you speak of a people who have been deprived,

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who have been gouged, who have been exploited,

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for all of these years I think it's a question of settling up.

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We don't need anybody to tell us to stand up anymore.

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Not only are we going to stand up, we're going to right the wrongs of our people in this generation.

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We have to come among ourselves and find out where we are lacking.

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And after we find out where we are lacking,

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then perhaps we can do something about correcting these conditions ourselves

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in our own community among our own kind.

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Too long have there been two worlds, a black world and a white world,

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and we never understood each other.

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Our language and dialogue is entirely different.

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We must also realize that the problems of racial injustice and economic injustice

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cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.

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Black power, according to my definition, is a very positive thing.

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It means pride, it means the recognition that a group has dignity and has roots.

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It means that a group has a right to participate in its destiny

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and to have an influence on its own community affairs,

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that it has a right to and should organize its economic and political strength

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to reward its friends and punters like every other group has done.

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Though they didn't go around shouting Irish power, or Jewish power, or Italian power,

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they just kept their mouths shut and took over certain institutions.

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Our problems as black people are vastly different than those of white people

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simply because we are black and because white people treat us by and large as black people.

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White people do not discriminate against black people one by one.

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The word black power really has frightened white America

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simply because when they hear black power they think of white power,

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and white power means napalm, tanks, state police department,

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high finance, overthrowing governments.

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Black power do not mean this.

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It might mean it in Africa where they are in control, but not in America.

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All we're trying to do is take right and push wrong with it.

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I believe that the so-called Negro should be allowed to defend himself from the violence of others.

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And then when the Negro defends himself from the violence of others,

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this is not violence, this is self-defense.

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When black people begin to rebel, and you'd call it riots,

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we understand that those are not riots, those are rebellions.

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These people are rebelling because of conditions and not because of individuals.

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No individual creates a rebellion.

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It's created out of the conditions.

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And those rebellions will continue.

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And it's not a long hot summer.

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That's white journalistic sensationalism.

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It's no such thing as a long hot summer.

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I know some places around that, you know, snow won't even touch the ground.

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When we say black power, some hokey says,

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you mean violence, and then he expects us to say,

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uh-uh, boss man, oh, we don't mean violence.

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Later for the hokey, later for him.

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Later for him, later for him.

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We will bear arms.

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And we will begin to use those arms to eliminate the oppression

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that affects black people.

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I went to St. Louis, Missouri the other day.

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They had black panthers from all over the country.

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No one knew about it at all.

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They had machine guns, recoilless rifles,

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grease guns, lugers, 25 of them, all armed.

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And the chief police met me at the airport when I arrived,

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and they were there, right there at the steps.

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They said you were violating the law.

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Yeah, we're violating the law.

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They said we're tired of our white and black leaders,

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Jackie and Martin and Bobby being killed.

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We're going to protect this man while he's here.

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And they didn't arrest one of them.

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Because they said if you arrest one,

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then somebody's going to die because we are ready to kill.

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America herself is a country on record as being prepared for war,

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even in times of peace.

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And Negroes should be the same way.

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They should be prepared at all times to defend their lives,

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their lives, their property, their children, their wives,

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if unjustly attacked.

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That's the first power that the man has used against you.

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That's the first power that's going to get him off of you.

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When he knows, when he knows not that you are willing to die,

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not that you are willing to die,

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but that you are willing to kill for your freedom.

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And nobody in this society ever sought to stop them

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when they burned our church down.

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But when we retaliate, everybody is upset.

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Don't you worry about it,

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because we're not going to take it anymore.

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In Lowndes County, Alabama, last month,

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they burned two churches to their death.

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They were black churches.

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A week later, a white church was burnt to the ground.

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Either we will all worship inside,

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or we will all worship outside.

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It is completely unrealistic,

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as hard as those of us who try to be responsible may be.

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It's unrealistic to expect us to have an all-pervasive influence

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and to restrain and control every black American

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and appeal to him to be patient.

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Any more than we feel white Americans have been successful

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in controlling all of the extremists among white people.

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It is a tragic thing that our society's results

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have not been tangible in the ghettos of Newark and Buffalo

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and the other cities around the country.

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I think it's a reflection on us in the civil rights movement,

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shall we say, or the Urban League

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and the other organizations that have been active

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over a number of years,

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that our results have not been great enough to make this change.

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I am a black man, and I am a responsible man.

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And I want black people to be and become themselves.

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You can't be discouraged, but on the other hand,

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neither can you be totally optimistic

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considering the kinds of tensions,

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the kinds of alienation and frustration.

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When you stop and think that this bill,

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that they're pushing through the anti-ride bill,

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98% of the senators and the congressmen

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should be arrested under it,

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because I don't know another body of people

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that cross state lines and gather and create conditions

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that's conducive for rides than this senate and this congress.

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And, you know, when you act with wisdom,

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you don't pass an anti-ride law,

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you pass a housing bill,

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because it's a simple act of nature,

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neighbors do not have rides.

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The primary objective must be justice,

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for without justice there will not be order,

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and there should not be order among black people any more

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than there would be order among white people.

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Black power is a consequence of the white backlash.

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Backlash riots are consequences of the white backlash

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rather than a cause from it.

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When you talk about law and order,

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the very law and order that you talk about oppresses us.

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So therefore we offer the extermination of that law and order.

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And you have shown us clearly that we can only do it by being armed.

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I've long since passed the stage of ever blaming white people individually

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for race prejudice as such.

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There is a certain amount of that,

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but our culture is fundamentally a racist culture.

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And black people are discriminated against as a group by white people.

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The fascination of the strongest black man

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that we've had here in North America, Malcolm X,

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to kill the brother because he had began to take meaningful steps

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towards gaining the freedom for his people.

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He was taking steps to internationalize the black man's struggle

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and to take it to the United Nations,

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to take it diplomatically to the other countries around the world

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so that meaningful pressure could be brought to bear on the United States government

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and to force them to let his people go.

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Now they felt that by murdering Malcolm X that they would also kill his ideas.

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But I'm here to tell you that Malcolm X's ideas would be stronger now

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than they were when he was alive.

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Black people all across the country are beginning to know what freedom is all about

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and they are beginning to express their freedoms.

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And if they have to carry guns during rebellions, we will carry guns during rebellions.

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And if we have to carry guns to make rebellions, we will carry guns to make those rebellions.

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And the suffering forced upon us by white America justifies our demand

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for a complete separation in a state or a territory of our own.

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The most militant black people I know are not seriously talking about a separate state

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or going back to Africa as much as some white people would like for them to.

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There will be a lot of soul searching on the part of many white people

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who have tried to push black power under the rug.

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You can't push a social change and a revolutionary idea under the rug.

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It's here. This is something that we got to deal with and American society will know it.

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And these white folks in Washington, D.C. can't be in a position to guide the faith and destiny

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of the whole world and not still realize that the number one problem that creates these problems is racism.

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That until we go in and expose the racism and say that we're going to sit down and cure these problems.

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But what we're trying to do is like if you come to me and I'm a doctor and I examine you

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and find out you have cancer and I tell you you have a headache, I've lied to you.

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And you're going to die because aspirin will not cure cancer.

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We say that of the total American population, the people who wheel and deal, who make the decisions,

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perhaps 10% are genuine bigots.

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Another 10% are sound on this subject of race.

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But we've got 80% who are apathetic, indifferent, who are unaware, who are insensitive.

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They get their impressions from what they read in the headlines.

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They sometimes don't even finish the full article.

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And these are the people who are going to tell the story.

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These are the people who are going to swing the balance as to whether or not we meaningfully meet the needs of people in the ghetto.

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And if we fail to do it, I'm afraid we're in for much more difficulty than we've had in the past.

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Let us work together!

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Work together!

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Move together!

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Boycott together!

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Take it together!

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And by the grace of God, we're going to win together sooner than you even dream.

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