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Malcolm X — Part 29
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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
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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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