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Malcolm X — Part 35
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a sinned
years that little girl became a full-
grown woman, No more Toms in
China. And today it’s one of the
toughest, roughest, most feared :
countries on this earth — by the
white man. Because there are no
Africa, and the white man is
screaming because he sees revolu-
tion in Latin America. How do you
think he'll react to you when you
learn what a real revolution is?
u don’t know what a revolution
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regated theater, a desegregated elmont
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toilet; you can sit down next toe -7 DeLoach
white folks — on the toilet. Cc
That’s no revolution. Revolution asper
is based on land. Land is the basis Callahan
of all independence, Land is the Conrad
basis of freedom, justice, and Felt
equality.
icle in Life magazime-show- The white man knows what a Gale
ing a little Chinese girl, nine years revolution is. He knows that the Rosen
old; her father was on his hands black revolution is world-wide in - - .
and knees and she was pulling the scope and in nature. The black Sawer
trigger because he was an Uncle revolution is sweeping Asia, is ave
Tom Chinaman. Sweening Arca, is meariee ban Trotter
When they had the revolution | ead in Latin America. The Cut Tele Room
Revolution — that’s a revolution.
eration of Unole Tome as ast | They overturned the system. Rev- Holmes
wiped them out, And within ten | olution ts in Asia, revolution is in Gandy
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MALCOLM X
Uncle Toms over there. if If you did, you wouldn’t u SPEAKS
Of all our studies, history is best that word. :
qualified to reward our research. Revolution is bloody, revoluti CONTINUED
And when you see that you’ve got
problems, all you have to do is
examine the historic method used
all over the world by others who
have problems similar to yours.
Once you see how they got theirs
straight, then you know how you
can get yours straight.
iy
There's been = revolution, a
black revolution, going on in Af-
tica. In Kenya, the Mau Mau were
revolutionary: they were the ones
who brought the word “Uhuru” -
to the fore, The Mau Mau, they |
were revolutionary, they believed
in scorched earth, they knocked
everything aside that got in their .
way, and their revolution also was
based on land, a desire for land.
In Algeria, the northern part of
Africa, a revolution took place,
The Algerians were revolutionists,
they wanted land. France offered
to let them be integrated into
France. They teld France, to hell
with France, they wanted some
land, not some France. And they °
engaged in a bloody battle.
So I cite these various revolu-
“tions, brothers and sisters, to
show you that you don’t have a |
peaceful revolution. You don’t i
have a turn-the-other-cheek rev-
olution, There’s no such thing as
a nonviolent revolution. The only
kind of revolution that is nonviol-
ent is the Negro revolution. The
cnoly revolution in which the goal
is loving your enemy is the Ne-
g*e-"erelution. It’s the .aale-ee-
is hostile, revolution knows n
compromise, revolution overturns:
and destroys everything that gets
in its way. And you, sitting around
here like a knot on the wall, say-
ing, ‘I’m going to love these folks
no matter how much they hate
me,” No, you need a revolution.
Who ever heard of a revolution
where they lock arms, singing
‘We Shall Overcome’? You don’t
do that in a revolution. You don’t
do any singing, you're too busy
swinging. It’s based on land. A
revolutionary wants land so he can
set up his own nation, an inde-
endent nation, These’ Negroes
en't asking for any nation —
ey’re trying to crawl back on th
lantation.
When you want a nation, that’
called nationalism. When th
white man became involved in a
revolution in this country against
England, what was it for? He
wanted this land so he could set
up another white nation. That's
white nationalism. The French
_ Revolution was white nationalism.
' The Russtan Revolution too — yes,
it was — white nationalism. You
don't think so? Why do you think
Khrushchev and Mao can't get
their heads together? White na-
tionalism. All the revolutions that
are going om in Asia and Africa
today are based on what? — black
_ nationalism,
A revolutionary is a black na-
tionalist. He wants e nation. I was
reading some heautiful \ wards by
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The Washington Post and —
Times Herald
The Washington Dally News
The Evening Star
New York Heraid Tribune
New York Journal-Amertean
New York Daliy News
New York Post
The New York Times
The Baltimore Sun
The Worker
The New Leader
The Wall Street Journal
The Natjenal Observer
People's World
ae ee ee
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Rev. Cleage, pointing out why he
couldn't get together with some- THE MILITANT
one else in the city because all of PAGE 4
them were afraid of being iden-
ified with black nationalism, If
ou're afraid of black nationalism,
ou’re afraid of revolution. And
you love revolution, you love
black nationalism.
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