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a2 Ah Cohan aeigees ga ar: | 5 Lau you'll get out of the way. O= 1 Ghat 2-1 4-6-4) ga MAH ie y XN bic Ce ee TT The following is the next in- stalbment of the speech made by Malcolm X in Detroit on Nov. 10, 1983: . Installment 2 WHAT IS A REVOLUTION? I would like to make a few comments concerning the differ- ence between the black revolution and the Negro revolution .. . First, what is a revolirtion? Sdmetimes I’m inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word “revolution” loosely, without tak- ing careful consideration of what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, the result of 4 revolu- tion, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program, you may change your goal and ra) you may change your mind. Look at the American Revolu- tion in 1776, That revolution was for what? For land. Why did they Warm land? Independence. How was it carried out? Bloodshed. Number one, it was based on land, the basis of independence, And the only way they could get it was bloodshed. The French Revolution — what was it based on? The landless against the landlord. What was it for? Land. How did they get it? Bloodshed. Was no love lost, was no compromise, was no negotia- tion, I'm telling you — you dan't know what a revolution is. Be- cause when you find out what it get back in tfe alley” Nola. IViaAlcOl mall ay WY A POL Excerpted from the book, Malcolm X Speaks, with the permission o: Publishers, 5 East Third St. New York, N.¥. 10003. Price $5.95 are ey id? NOV 4 1965 Copyright 1985 by Merit Publish | doesn't involve bloodshed. And - for you and me to do whatever is Tolson _ Belment ee Hui Mohr . — DeLoach ct —_ _ ._ fF . Casper Speaks = = Conrad Felt tit aa aU Tralee beat bone Gale Russian Revolution. sy llivan The Russian Revolution — what Tavel wag it based on? Land; the land- e less against the landlord. How did Trotter they bring it about? Bloodshed. Tele Room , You haven't got a revolution that Holmes youre afraid to bleed. I said, Gandy you're afraid to biead. As long as the white man sent you 4o Korea, you bled. He sent you tc Germamy, yeu bled, He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. You bieed for white people, but when it comes to seeing your own church- es being bombed and little black girls murdered, you haven't got any blood, You bleed when the white man says bleed; you bite when the white man says bite; and you bark when the white man says bark. I hate to say this about us, but it’s true. How are you going to be nonviclent in Missis- pie ' sippi, as violent as you were in Korea? How can you justify being nonviolent in Mississippi and Ala- bama, when your churches are be- ing bombed, and your little girls are being murdered, and at the same time you are going to get viqient with Hitler, and Tojo, and somebody else you don't een knw? violence is wrong in Amerira, viclence is wrong abroad. If if is wrong to be viclent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, ¢ta!d then it is wrong for America to ton Daily News draft us and make us violent ¢,., abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America io draft ‘'7!4 Tribune us; and teach us how to be violent urnal-American in defense of her, then It is right 1 Nowe tton Post and ——_—_— necessary to defend our own peo- °° ple right here in this country. rk Times The Chinefe Revolution — they pe sun wanted land. They threw the Brit- ish out, along with the Uncle Tom Chinese, Yes, they did. They set 2der a good example. When I was in set journal ptigon, I read an article — don't, befshocked when I say that I @as! O>#¢rver —___— Pe wh You're still in ea Thmt’s what America means: pys- J] /]7/65 on, When I was in prison, I reed noe ay. TTANT /—4 PAGE 4