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Malcolm X — Part 29

160 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Jun 30, 1965 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Malcolm X · 158 pages OCR'd
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oS NY 105-8999 SEpRET rn "Three hundred persons about a third of them white, attended the rally, in the Williama Institutional Church, at 2225 Seventh Avenue, Near 13lst Street. "Malcolm X accused President JOHNSON, Vice Presidente elect HUBERT H. HUMPHREY and Mayor WAGNER of ‘playing the same game as the Southern crackers.' 'I'm for anybody who is for freedom, justice and equality,' he said. ‘I'm agaimt anybody who tells black people to be nonviolent while nobody is telling white people to be nonviolent. ? 'It is necessary to learn the right language to communicate with people, he said, adding: ‘If the language is a shotgun, get a shotgun. But don't waste time talking the wrong language. "The militant leader, wearing a small goatee, eyeglasses and a dark blue suit, asserted that freedom had to be talcen, because it could not be given. fats "Earlier this year, in a letter to a friend here, he soot wrote from Mecca, Saudi Arabia, that he had renounced black radism and had embraced the brotherhood of man, but his words yesterday bristled with militancy. “Pointing his right forefinger vigorously and | ola aiA Ling And es Lys he said justice demanded that ‘he who kills by i word shall be killed by the sword.' os ‘A black man has the right to do whatever is : necessary to get his freedom,' he said. ‘We will never get it by nonviolence. ' “Urging Negroes to 'even the score' with whites, he said: 'Let the Klan know we can do it, tit for tat, tit for tat. We have brothers who are able, quipped and ready to do that.! "as the audience cheered, he observed: ‘Freedom is gotten by ballots or bullets. These are the only two methods, Either ballots or bullots.'* - ,
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