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malcolm-little-malcolm-x — Part 37
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MALCOLM X:
che way of achieving tnis. Now, may be
you becser put onthe record right now just
how you would go about the physical side
of achieving these things.
If the United States Government is on record
as being for desegregation and when these
Negro civil rights leaders become involved
in demonstrations against segregation, what
they areactually doing is trying to break
down laws or praczices wnich the Supreme
Court nas labeled as criminal. Now, if the
integrationists are against segregationists,
who are criminals, then the law should be on
the side of the initesrationist demanstrators
but in every instance wnere Negroes are
trying co integrate or desegregate, you'i2
find that sne one wno is opposing them is the law
itself. It is the policeman wno s§icks police
dogs on them. So when che yourg Negro thac's
coming up now is beginning to see the deceit
and she hypocrisy of “he entire civil rights
struggle and they are ready and willing to do
what ever is necessam, to see that the law of
che lang be enforced or les the law enforcers
admit snat iz is no: wne law of the land, and
his is nos violence. Tnis is a situation
wnere Hezrdes are beginning co see where, if
the Government itself cannot step in and protec
us .rom the violence of che whites, white
suprenists, white rascists, wnite bigots,
sner iz is time for Nezroes to do what ever
is ~ecessary to defend ourselves and to protec.
ourselves even if i: means taking rifles and
snovzuns and driving away from our door those
rase’s 7s and those bizo:s who are brutalizing
Nezroes, and tnis is some-cning nat has to be
said and if nobody else will say it, then one
of che reasons shat I am now ous nere on my
own is chat I feel iz snould be said and I am
going :o say it and i. saying it in the capacity
that T am now in it won't embarrass anybody or
put anybody on she spot. Bue its time for
Negroes *o defend themselves.
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