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Malcolm X — Part 22
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Re: Afro-American Broadcasting and
Recording Company
“been doing it they are experts at it, and they know what
they are doing. Since the Federal government has shown
that it is not going to do anything about it but talk,
then it is a duty, it is your and my duty, a8 men, as
human beings, and a duty to our people to organize ourselves
and let the government know that if they do not stop that
Klan we will stop it ourseives. Then you will see the |
government start doing something about it, butdon't ever
think that they are going te do it on some Kind of a
morality basis. You can't stop it with love. Not love
of those things down there. We only mean vigorous action
in self defense and that vigorous action we feel where
justified in initiating by any means necessary.
“Probably one thing that I should point out to
you that once we formed our new organization, once we
became identified with the Orthodox Muslim world we
also formed an organization known as the Organization
of the Afro~American Unity, which is designed to fight
all the negative political and economic and social
conditions that exist in our neighborhood. It is a non-
religicus organization to which anyone can beleng who ig
interested in direct action.
“One of our first programs is to take our problem
out of the Civil Rights context and place it at the inter-
national level ef human rights so that the entire world
can have a voice in our struggle. If we keep it at civil
rights then the only place we can turn for allies is within
the domestic confines of America, but when you make it a
human rights struggle it becomes international and then
you can open the door for all types of advice and support
from cur brothers in Africa and Latin America and Asia,
and elsewhere. It is very important, that is our inter-
national aim, that ig our external aim, our internal ain
is to become immediately involved in a mass voters
registration drive but we do not believe in voters
registration without voter education. We believe that
our people should be educated into the science of
politics so that they will know what a vote is for and
what a vote ia supposed to produce, and aiso how to
utilize this united voting power so that you can control
the politics of your own community and the politicians
that represent that community. We are for that and in
that line we will work with all others, even civil rights
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