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Malcolm X — Part 3
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"Give me liberty or eive me death,
"Are you ready to say that? If you are
ready to say that you are ready to be a Moslem. If
ali those thousands of Negroes had said that, they
wouldn't have to still be wondering about she future,
If they had gone before LINCOLN's statue and
said, 'tToday I will be free or today I dig', the
president would have come out on the steps and prayed
to them Instead of them oraying to him. IME would
have known what we wanted then under no uncertain terms,
But the American Negro is not quite ready: the Honorable
ELIJAaL MUHAMMUD is hese to make him recdy. All praises
wae to Allah.
“Here is a trick to play on any Negro friend
of yours. We haw. to have to trick them but I bet you
it will work, Tell him that you heard a new teaching
“hat says there is no hell down in the ground but that
the devil ts here on earth, And tell him the black man
is the devil, And he will sey, 'Henev ehile, I think
youtre right’, Now come to him on the next day and
gay thet you alse heard a teaching that says ths
White man is the devil Brother! You have Just made
an enemy, You have a fight on your hands, All -omr _
lives we have been taught that we are the inferior. Vhen
we were little and the wite boys and the colored were
goings to nlay cowboys and Indians, who vas Ton Mix and
Buck Jones or the Long Ranser? The wiites. Who vere we?
Tonto, hla flunky. If we were going to play shipwrecked
who was Robinsen Crusoe? The waites, Who was man
Friday? Guess who.
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