AHTER 1964 02 Malcolm X - on Black Power

Whites can help us, but they can't join us. There can be no black, white unity until there is first and black unity. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Concerning non-violence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. There are problems in the community. Some of those examples of those problems are the vices that destroy the moral fiber in our community.

Drunkenness, drug addiction, prostitution, organized crime that grabs the Negro community of probably 90% of its economic potential and moral potential. One of my reasons for going out on the limb as I have is to try and make white people shocked awake to some of their senses because if they don't awake they're going

to find out that this little nigra that they thought was passive has become a roaring uncontrollable line right in right at the door not at the doorstep inside their house in the bed in the kitchen in their attic in the basement and if you know that in time you can do something about it