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Malcolm X — Part 19
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Clevelan’ or Coioago or th. ncrtLern citics, 4ni cy ecntontion ia that
any tinc you have a ccuntr’, supposedly a democzac’, supposadly tha lan’ cf
the fras ant tha besa cf toc Evave anZ it ean't onfores Inve, oven in thao
northcrrcoost ecsmepelitcr an" pregrecesive part of it thet .411 benefit a
bleoknan — if those irs can't te snforesd or that la. can't be enforco4,
how nuoh heart do yeu think ve will got whon thay pass scae civil rigits
Jogi slation which only invclv. more lew. If the;can't enforce this le
they'll nsver enfores tics. lava.
So a contention is thst wa are face: vith » racialistio
Sociaty, a goctety ia “Lick thay are deneitful, ccocoptive and the only way
wo oan brirg sbo-t & chunge is te talk the kind of Innguags, to speak the
language that thoy uncorstanc. The racialists never undorcetand a
paaceful language. Tic ractaliet never untersteats tuo aone-viclent
langiungce Tae raciaiist To bave bots spOKSG Lie lancuagse to ua Tor
four-aen!.ed years, 7s hive toen the victin of 1s brutslity. We are
the once whe Zooa ‘ais f£c¢r73 thet tear the flesh fron ow limbs. Only
beccus: ws TARh te entcrce ths Scprene Court's decision. le are the
ong@ ak: ksve 8218 existed — not by the En Klux Maa, but by
pelicenca, only becacs. 72 vant to enforce what thoy enll the Supreme Court
aecisiocn.
We Bre the ones upon whoc water bes:s cte turned vith
pressizc 85 hari tist 1: rips the clothes frceo our becks — ret men but tke
eicties froc the back® cf vetin and ctiléren. You'v: eten it yourself.
Only bcesuse ve tant te srfcres wheat tuey call th. Inv. Well any tine
you live in a socist; supposedly basc2 upen law an? it covsn't enforec its
own lav bécsuss whe eclour cT a man's skin happens t. te wrerg, then I say
thess persle arc justific? te resert te any oesns necegsa™ to bring ebect
justice where the Gevermiunt can't give the= justics. (cPPL.USE)
I don't beoldcve in any foro of urjustific2 extracign but I
belicve that when a man is cxercising extrecism-a bua. being, he's
eearcising extracisc in *oftnss cf liberty for human beings. It's no vice,
Ariowher onc is netirate in the pursuit of justicc for human beinga I think
he's a sinncr, and I aicht adc, uy ccnclusion, in fast dcerica's
one of toc best exacplos chin you read its history abcut extrenian, O12
Patrick Henry sai? "libcrt: cr death' — that's axtronoc. Mory axrtrea.
I rosé onec, sassingly;, about « man’ named Snakcspearc. I
only reac about hin patsingi:y, but I resccber one thing he wrote that kind
of moved ue. He put it in tha mouth of Hamlet, I think 1t was, whe said
“To bs or net to ba", Re vas in doubt abcut something, Tiether it was
nebler in the nin? cf unn te suffer the slings an? arrows of outrageoca
fortune in coceration, cr tc take up arce against th: sea af troubles by
op-cBlng ~ satrg. ano I go for that. If you take up arus you'll ené
it but if you ait arounl antl cait for tae one whie's in pover to make up “is
min’ that he skeul4’ en? it, you'll be waiting a lon¢ tinc.
and, in uy Clinktiy the young gercratica of white, black,
brown, costever eles thcr: is, you're living at a tine of extrenisu, a toe
of vaveluticn, @ tins thin there's got to he a change. People in pocer
have oleuse? ft and me- thos hse to be o change ens a better world has tc
be built ané thse only rey it's going tc be built 45 with extrene mathces on?
I, for one, will geis in cite am-cne — I don't cars ubnt cclour you are as
dens 82 yor fsnt te Guant. this uidserabls cendition thnt exists on this”
earth, Thank you. (aFl LSE)
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