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Malcolm X — Part 19

100 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: May 5, 1958 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Malcolm X · 100 pages OCR'd
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aLLtar 3.12.84 + 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) BES
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