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Mr. Moderator, Robin Cleague, brothers and sisters, friends. [Applause] In fact, I think we'd be fooling ourselves if we had an audience this large and didn't realize that there were some enemies present this afternoon. We want to talk about The Ballot or The Bullet. The Ballot or The Bullet explains itself. But before we get into it, since this is the year of The Ballot or The Bullet, I would like to clarify some things that refer to me personally, concerning my own personal position.
I'm still a Muslim. That is my religion. It's still Islam. Mario still Islam. I still credit Mr. Muhammad for what I know and what I am. He's the one who opened my eyes. At present, I'm the minister of the newly founded Muslim Mosque Incorporated, which has its offices in the Teresa Hotel, right in the heart of Harlem. That's the black belt in New York City.
And when we realize that Adam Clayton Powell is a Christian minister, he's the, he has Abby Senior Baptist Church, but at the same time, he's more famous for his political struggling. And Dr. King is a Christian minister in Atlanta, from Atlanta, Georgia, or in Atlanta, Georgia, but he's become more famous for being involved in a civil rights struggle. There's another in New York, Reverend Glamison. I don't know if you've heard of him out here. He's a Christian minister from Brooklyn, but has become famous for his fight against a segregated school system in Brooklyn. Reverend please, right here, is a Christian minister here. He's the head of the Freedom Now Party. All of these are Christian ministers. [Applause] All of these are Christian ministers, but they don't come to us as Christian ministers. They come to us as fighters in some other category.
I'm a Muslim minister, the same as they are Christian ministers. I'm a Muslim minister, and I don't believe in fighting today in any one front, but on all fronts. [Applause] Fact, I'm a black nationalist Freedom Fighter. [Applause] Islam is my religion, but I believe my religion is my personal business. It governs my personal life. No morals. And my religious philosophy is personal between me and the God in whom I believe, just as the religious philosophy of these others is between them and the God in whom they believe. And this is best. This way, were we to come out here discussing religion, we'd have too many differences from the All-Star, and we could never get together. So today, though Islam is my religious philosophy, my political, economic, and social philosophy is black nationalism.
You and I, as I say, if we bring up religion, we'll have differences. We'll have arguments. We'll never be able to get together. But if we keep our religion at home, keep our religion in the closet, keep ours and our God, but when we come out here, we have a fight that's common to all of us against the enemy who is coming to all of us. [Applause]
The political philosophy of black nationalism only means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community. The, the time, the time when white people can come in our community and get us to vote for them so that they can be our political leaders and tell us what to do and what not to do is long gone. [Applause] By the same token, the time when that same white man, knowing that your eyes are too far open, can send another Negro into the community, get you and me to support him so he can use him to lead us astray, those days are long gone. [Applause]
The political philosophy of black nationalism only means if you and I are going to live in a black community, and that's where we're going to live because as soon as you move into one of their, as soon as you move out of the black community into [Music] the end, yes, myth, for a period of time, but they are gone, and you're right, they're all by yourself. [Applause] We must, we must understand the politics of our community, and we must know what politics is supposed to produce. We must know what politics play in our lives. And until we become politically mature, we will always be misled, led astray, or deceived, or maneuvered into supporting someone politically who doesn't good of our community at heart. So the political philosophy of black nationalism only means that we will have to carry on a program, a political program of re-education to open our people's eyes, make us politically kind of politically mature, and then we will, whenever we get ready to cast our ballot, that ballot will be classed for, will be cast for a man of the community who has the good of the community at heart.
The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that we should own and operate and control the economy of our community. You never found, you can't open up a black store in a white community. White men won't even patronize you. And he's not wrong. He got sense enough to look out for himself. Don't have sense enough to look out for yourself. [Applause] The white man, the white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you will let anybody come in and control the economy of your community, control the housing, control the education, control the jobs, control the businesses, uh, under the pretext that you want to integrate. Nah, you're out of your mind. [Applause]
The political, the economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that we have to become involved in a program of re-education to educate our people into the importance of knowing that when you spend your dollar out of the community in which you live, the community, uh, in which you spend your money becomes richer and richer. The community out of which you take your money becomes poorer and poorer. And because these Negroes who have been misled and misguided are breaking their necks to take their money and spend it with the man, the man is becoming richer and richer, and you're becoming poorer and poorer. And then what happens? The community in which you live becomes a slum. It becomes a ghetto. The conditions become run down. And then you have the audacity to come to complain about poor housing in a rundown community while you run it down yourself. [Applause]
And you and I are in a double track because not only do we lose by taking our money someplace else and spending it, when we try and spend it in our own community, we're trapped because we haven't had sense enough to set up stores and control the businesses of our community. The man who's controlling the stores in our community is a man who doesn't look like we do. He's a man who doesn't even live in the community. So you and I, even when we try and spend our money in the block where we live or the area where we live, we're spending it with a man who, when the sun goes down, takes that basket full of money in the part of the town. [Applause] So we're trapped. Trapped. Double trapped. Triple trapped. Anywhere we go, we find that we're trapped. And every kind of solution that someone comes up with is just another trend.
But the political and economic philosophy of black nationalism, the economic philosophy of black nationalism shows our people the importance of setting up these little stores and developing them and expanding them into larger operations. Woolworth didn't start out big like they ought to do. They started out within dying store and expand and then expanded until today they're all over the country and all over the world, and they get to some of everybody's money. Now, this is what you and I, in General Motors, the same way, didn't start out like it is. It started out just a little rat race type operation and it expanded and expanded until it today is where it is right now. And you and I have to make a stop. And the best place to start is right in the community where we live. So our people not only have to be re-educated to the importance of supporting blank business, but the black man himself has to be made aware of the importance of going into business. And once you and I go into business, we own and operate at least the businesses in our community. What we will be doing is developing a situation wherein we will actually be able to create employment for the people in the community. And once you can create some, some employment in the community where you live, it will eliminate the necessity of you and me having to act ignorant gracefully boycotting and picketing some crackers someplace else trying to thank him for a job. [Applause] Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy or bad shape. [Applause] When you and he is your enemy, anything you wouldn't be in this country if some enemy had you kidnapped you and brought you here. On the other hand, some of you think you came here on the Mayflower. [Applause]
So as you can see, uh, uh, brothers and sisters, today, this afternoon, is not our intention to discuss religion. We're going to forget religion. If we bring up religion, we'll be in an argument. And the best way to keep away from arguments and differences, as I said earlier, put your religion at home, in the closet. Keep it between you and your God because if it hasn't done anything more for you than it has, you need to forget it anyway. [Applause]
Whether you are, whether you are a Christian or a Muslim or a nationalist, we all have the same problem. They don't, they don't hang you because you're a Baptist. They hang me hanging because you're blind. [Applause] They don't want to attack me because I'm a Muslim. They attack me because I'm black. They'll take all of us for the same reason. All of us catch hell from the same enemy. We're all in the same bay, in the same boat. We suffer political oppression, economic exploitation, and social degradation, all of them from the same enemy. The government has failed us. You can't deny that. Anytime you live in the 20th century, 1964, and you're walking around here singing "We Shall Overcome," the government has failed. [Applause] This is part of what's wrong with you. You do too much singing. [Applause] Today, it's time to stop singing and start swinging. [Applause] You can't sing up on freedom, but you can swing up on some degree. [Applause] Cassius Clay can sing, but singing didn't help him to become the heavyweight champion of the world. Swing and help him. But [Applause] failed us. The government itself has failed us. And the white liberals who have been posing as our friends have failed us. And once we see that all these other sources to which we've turned have failed, we stop turning to them and trying to ourselves. We need a self-help program. But do it, do it yourself philosophy. If I do it, right now, philosophy, uh, it's already too late philosophy. You and I need to get together. And the only time, the only way we're going to solve our problem is with a self-help program. Before we can get a self-help program started, we have to have a self-help philosophy. Black nationalism is a self-help philosophy. What's so good about it? You can stay right in the church where you are and still take black nationalism as your philosophy. You stay in any kind of civic organization that you belong to and still take black nationalism as your philosophy. You can be an atheist and still take black nationalism as your philosophy. This is a philosophy that eliminates the necessity for division and argument because if you're black, you should be thinking black. And if you're black and you're not thinking black at this late date, well, I'm sorry for you. Thank you.
Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your, your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern into going into some action. As long as you got a sit-down philosophy, you'll have a sit-down thought pattern. Long as you think that old sit-down thought, you'd be in some kind of sit-down action. They'll have you sitting in everywhere. It's not so good to refer to what you're going to do as a city. Then right there, castrate you right there. It brings you down. What, what goes with it? What, think of the image of a someone sitting. An old woman can sit. An old man can sit. But a coward can fit. Anything can fit. Well, you and I have been sitting long enough, and it's time today for us to start doing some standing and some faith. Then when we look at other parts of this Earth upon which we live, we find that black, brown, red, and yellow people in Africa and Asia are getting their independence. They're not getting it by singing "We Shall Overcome." No, they're getting it through nationalism. It is nationalism that brought about the independence of the people in Asia. Remember, a nation in Asia gained its independence through the philosophy of nationalism. Every nation on the African continent that has gotten its independence brought it about through the philosophy of nationalism. And it will take black nationalism that to bring about the freedom of 22 million Afro-Americans here in this country where we have suffered colonialism for the past 400 years. America is just as much a colonial power as England ever was. America is just as much a colonial power as France ever was. In fact, America is more so a colonial power than they because she's a hypocritical colonial power. Behind it, what is 20th, what do you call second-class citizenship? Why, that's colonization. Second-class citizenship is nothing but 20th-century slavery. How are you going to tell me you're a second-class citizen? They don't have second-class citizenship in any other government on this Earth. They just have slaves and people who are free. Well, this country is a hypocrite. They try and make you think they set you free by calling you a second-class citizen. No, you're nothing but our 20th-century slave. [Applause]
To remove colonialism from Asia and Africa, it'll take black nationalism. Today, to remove colonialism from the backs and the minds of 22 million Afro-Americans here in the, in 1964, looks like it might be the year of the ballot or the bullets. [Applause] Why, it doesn't look like it might be the year of The Ballot or The Bullet? Because Negroes have listened to the trickery and the lies and the false promises of the white man now for too long, and they're fed up. They've become disenchanted. They've become disillusioned. They've become dissatisfied. And all of this has built up frustrations in the black community that makes the black community throughout America today more explosive than all of the atomic bombs the Russians can ever invent. Whenever you got a racial powder keg sitting in your lap, you're in more trouble than if you had an atomic powder keg sitting in your lap. When a racial powder keg goes off, it doesn't care who it knocks out. The way, understand this, it's dangerous. And in 1964, this seems to be the year because what can the white man use now to fool us after he put down that much on Washington? And you see all through that now, he kicked you. Had you marching down to Washington? Yes, as you marching back and forth between the feet of a dead man named Lincoln and another, another dead man named George Washington, singing "We Shall Overcome." The [Applause] jump out of them. He made a fool out of him. He made you think you were going somewhere, and you end up going nowhere but between Lincoln and Washington. [Applause]
So today, our people are disillusioned, become disenchanted, they become dissatisfied, and in their frustrations, they want action. So you'll see this young black man, this new generation, asking for the book, Ballot or the book. That old Uncle Tom action is outdated. Young generation don't want to hear anything about the odds are against us. What do we care about us? [Applause]
When America was first being founded, there were 13 colonies that the whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without representation. So some of them stood up and said, "Liberty or death." Sent to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. They penciling about old pants or George Washington. Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English. They didn't care about the odds. They faced the wrath of the entire British Empire. And in those days, they used to say that the British Empire was so advanced and so powerful, when the sun, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was. Yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, "Liberty or death." And here you have 22 million Afro-American black people today catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell you, in case you don't know it, this, you got a new, you got a new generation of black people in this country who don't care anything whatsoever about us. They don't want to hear you, oh Uncle Tom. This is a new generation. If they're gonna draft these young black men and send them over to Korea or South Vietnam to face 800 million Chinese, if you're not afraid of those odds, you shouldn't be afraid of these odds.
Why is America, why does this loom to be such an explosive political year? Because this is the year of politics. This is the year when all of the white politicians are going to come into the Negro community. You've never seen them until election time. You can't blame them until elections. They're going to come in with false promises. And as they make these false promises, they're going to feed our frustrations. And this will only serve to make matters worse. I'm no politician. I'm not even a student of politics. I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American. And God says enough to know I'm one of the 22 million black victims of the Democrats. [Applause] Foreign black victims of the Republicans, and one of the 22 million black victims of Americanism. And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat or a Republican. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy. All we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has, who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American Dream. We've experienced only the American Nightmare. [Applause] We haven't benefited from America's democracy. We've only suffered from America's hypocrisy. And the generation that's coming up now can see it and are not afraid to say it. If you go to jail for what, if you're black, you were born in jail. If you blacked, you were born in jail in the North as well as the South. Don't talk about the South as long, long as you're south of the, long as you're south of the Canadian border, yourself. Don't call Governor Wallace the Dixie Governor. Romney is a Dixie government. 22 million black victims of Americanism are waking up, and they're gaining a new political consciousness, becoming politically mature. And as they become, develop this political maturity, they're able to see the recent trends in these, uh, political elections. They see that the whites are so evenly divided that every time they vote, uh, the race is so close, they have to go back and count the votes all over again. Which means that any block, any minority that has a block of votes that stick together is in a strategic position. Either way you go, that's who gets it. You're in a position to determine who go to the White House and who'll stay in the doghouse. You're the one who has that power. You can keep Johnson in Washington D.C., or you can send him back to his Texas cotton patch. You're the one who sent Kennedy to Washington. You're the one who put the present Democratic administration in Washington D.C. The whites were evenly divided. It was the fact that you threw 80% of your votes behind the Democrats that put the Democrats in the White House. This, when you see this, you can see that the Negro vote is the key factor. And despite the fact that you are in a position to, to be the determining factor, what do you get out of it? Democrats have been in Washington D.C. only because of the Negro vote. They've been down there four years, and they're all other legislation they wanted to bring up, they brought it up and gotten it out of the way, and now they bring up you. And now they bring up you. You put them first, and they put you last. In Washington D.C., in the House of Representatives, there are 257 who are Democrats, only 177 are Republican. In the Senate, there are 67, uh, Democrats, only 33 are Republicans. The party that you best controls two-thirds of the House of Representatives in the Senate, and still they can't keep their promise to you because you're a chump. Anytime you throw your weight behind the political party that controls two-thirds of the government, and that party can't keep the promise that it made to you during election time, and you are dumb enough to walk around continuing to identify yourself with that party, or your not only a trump, but you're a traitor to your race. [Applause]
And what kind of alibi do they come up with? They try and pass the buck to the Dixie friends. Now, back during the days when you were blind, deaf, and dumb, ignorant, politically mature, naturally, you went along with us. But today, as your eyes come open and you develop political maturity, you're able to see and think for yourself, and you can see that a Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat. You look at the structure of the government that controls this country. It's controlled by 16 senatorial committees and 20 congressional committees. Up to 16 senatorial committees that run the government, 10 of them are in the hands of Southern segregationists. 20 congressional committees that run the government, 12 of them and are in the hand of Southern segregation. And they're going to tell you and me that the South lost the war. [Applause] You today have, uh, in the hands of a government of segregationists, racists, white supremacists who belong to the Democratic Party, but disguised themselves as Dixie, uh, Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat. Whoever runs this Democrats is also the father of the Dixiecrat, and the father of all of them is sitting in the White House. Thank you. I say, and I say it again, you got a president who's nothing but a southern segregationist from the state of Texas. They'll lynch you in Texas as quick as they'll lynch you in Mississippi. Only in, in Texas, they lynch you with a Texas accent. In Mississippi, they lynch you with a Mississippi accent. The first thing the cracker does when he comes to power, he takes all the Negro leaders and then pass them for a coffee. [Applause] Show that he's all right. And those Uncle Toms can't pass up the coffee. They come away from the coffee table for me, that this man is all right because he's from the South, and since he's from the South, he can deal with his son. And whatever the logic that they're using, what about Eastland? Hillson? The South make him the president. If Johnson is a good man because he's in Texas, in, and from Texas, woman, if Johnson is a good man because he's in Texas and he's from Texas, will enable him to deal with the South? Eastland can deal with the South better than Johnson. You've been misled. You've been here. You've been took. [Applause]
I was in Washington a couple of weeks ago while the senators were filibustering, and I noticed in the back of the Senate a huge map. And on this map, it showed the distribution of Negroes in America. And surprisingly, the same senators that were involved in the filibuster were from the states where they were the most Negroes. Why would they feel about saying the civil rights legislation? Because the civil rights legislation is supposed to guarantee voting rights to Negroes in those states. And those senators from those states know that if the Negroes in those states can vote, those senators are down the drain. The representatives of those states go down the drain. And in the Constitution of this country, it has a stipulation born in whenever the ranks, the voting rights of people in a certain district are violated, then the representative who refuse from that particular district, according to the Constitution, is supposed to be expelled from the Congress. If the Constitution was enforced, why, you wouldn't have a cracker in Washington D.C. [Music] You're expelling the Democrats. When you destroy the power of the Dixiecrat, you're destroying the power, power of the Democratic Party. So how in the well can the Democratic Party in the South excellent side with you? Insincerity to know what this power is based in in the South. These non-Democrats are in cahoots with the Southern Democrats. Here, they clean a giant gun game, the political kind of game. You know how it goes? Whenever one of them comes to you and make believe his foot, and he's in cahoots with other men, that's not for you, right? Because neither one of them is for you. But they got to make you a girl with one of them or the other. So this is a gun game, and this is what they've been doing with you and me all these years. First thing Johnson got off the plane when he become president, he asked, "Where's Dickey?" You know who Dickey is? Dickey's old southern cracker, Rich and Richard Russell. Yes, Linda, indeed. Jesse's best friend is the one who is ahead, who's heading the forces that are filibustering civil rights legislation. You, you tell me how in the hell is he going to be Johnson's best friend? How can Johnson be his friend and your friend too? Now, that's your ticket. I believe his friend is still old Dicky. [Music]
Up here in the North, you have the same thing. The Democratic Party don't, don't do it that way. They got a thing that they call gerrymandering. They maneuver you out of power. Even though you can vote, they fix it so you vote me for nobody. They got you gone and coming. In the South, they're outright political wolves. In the North, they're political foxes. Both belongs to the dog family. Dog. All the bullets. It's liberty or death. With freedom for everybody, or freedom for nobody. America today finds herself in a unique situation. Historically, revolutions are bloody. Oh, yes, they are. They haven't never had a bloodless revolution or a non-violent revolution. That don't happen. Even in Hollywood, you don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy. And you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions are return systems. Revolutions destroy systems. A revolution is bloody. But America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually need to become involved in a bloodless revolution. The Russian Revolution was bloody. Chinese Revolution was bloody. French Revolution was bloody. Cuban Revolution was bloody. And there was nothing more bloody than the American Revolution. But today, this country can become involved in a revolution that won't take blood. Sugar. All she's got to do is give the black man in this country everything is doing, every, everything. I hope that the white man can see this because if you don't see it, you're finished. If you don't see it, you're going to be coming, you're going to become an involved in some action in which you don't have a chance. We don't care anything about your atomic bomb. It's, it's useless because other countries have atomic bombs. When two or three different countries have atomic bombs, nobody can use it. So it means that the white man today is without a weapon. If you're gonna, if you want some action, you gotta come on down to earth. There's more black people on Earth than there are white people. I only got a couple more minutes. The white man can never win another war on the ground. His days of war victory, his great, his days of background victory, oh, can I prove it? Yes. Take all the action that's going on on this Earth right now. If he's involved in, tell me where he's winning. Nowhere. Why, some race farmers, some race farmers, some rice eaters ran him out of Korea. Yes, they ran him out of Korea. [Applause] With nothing but gym shoes and a rifle and a bowl of rice, took him and his paints and his Napalm and all that other action he's supposed to have and ran across the alley. Why? Because the day that he can win on the ground is passed up. In French, in no China, those little peasants, rice roars, took on the might of the French army and ran all the Frenchmen. You remember then, then fool? Yeah, yeah. The same thing happened in Algeria. In Africa, they didn't have anything but a rainbow. The prince had all these highly recognized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on, and a white man can't fight a guerrilla worth it. Gorilla. It takes hot, takes nerve, and he doesn't have that. [Applause] He wave when he got taints. Brave when he's got planes. He's grave when he's got bombs. He's brave when he got a whole lot of company along with him. But you take that little man from Africa and Asia, turn him loose in the woods with a blade. [Applause] That's all he needs. All he needs is to believe. And when the sun comes down, goes down, and it stops, it's even seasoned. [Applause] [Applause]
Today, our people can see that we're faced with a government conspiracy. This government has failed us. The citizens who are our filibustering concerning your, my rights, that's the government. Don't say it's certain sentences. This is the government. This is the government's filibuster. It's not a segregation. It's filibuster. If the government's filibuster any kind of activity that takes place on the floor of the Congress or the Senate, that's the government. Any kind of Dilly Downing in that's the government. Any kind of pudding that's the government. Any kind of act that's designed to delay or deprive you and need right now of getting full ranks, that's the government that's responsible. And anytime you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the world court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of.
Today, political and economic and social philosophy is black nationalism. Has become involved in the Civil Rights struggle. We have injected ourselves into the Civil Rights struggle, and we intend to expand it from the level of civil rights to the level of human rights. As long as you're, as long as you find it on the level of civil rights, you're under Uncle Sam's jurisdiction. You're going to his court expecting him to correct the problem he created. The problem, he's the criminal. You don't take your case to the criminal. You take your criminal to court. When the government of South Africa began to trample upon the human rights of the people of South Africa, they were taken to the U.N. When the government of Portugal began to trample upon the race of our brothers and sisters in Angola, it was taken before the U.N. Where even the white man took the Hungarian question to the U.N. And just this week, Chief Justice Goldberg was crying over, uh, three million Jews in Russia about their human rights, charging Russia with violating the U.N. China because of its, uh, mistreatment of the human rights of Jews in Russia. Now, you tell me, how can the plight of everybody on this Earth reach the halls of the United Nations? Then you have 22 million Afro-Americans whose churches are being bombed, [Applause] whose little girls are being murdered, whose leaders are being shut down in broad daylight. Now, you tell me why the leaders of this struggle have never taken it before the United Nations. [Applause] Is to take the entire civil rights struggle into the United Nations. [Applause] Let the world see that Uncle Sam is guilty of violating the human rights of 22 million. To stand up and represent himself as the leader of the Free World. Not only is he a trump, he's a hypocrite. Here he is, standing up in front of other people, Uncle Sam, with the blood of young men, mothers, and fathers on his hands, with the blood zipping down his jaws like a bloody jarred wolf, to point his finger at other countries. You can't even get civil rights legislation, and this man has got the nerve to stand up and talk about South Africa, or talk about Nancy Germany, or talk about Portugal. No, no more days like those. [Applause]
So I say in my conclusion, the only way we're going to solve it, we gotta Unice in unity and Harmony. Then black nationalism is the key. We gonna overcome their tendency to be at each other's throats that always exists in our neighborhood. And the reason this tendency exists, the strategy of the white man has always been divide and conquer. He keeps us divided in order to conquer us. He tells you I'm for a separation, and you of integration, and keep us fighting with each other. No, I'm not for separation, and you're not for integration, but you and I are far as freedom. Only you think the integration will get your freedom. I have things separation will get me free. The same objective, we just got different ways to get landed. So, uh, I, I studied this man, Billy Graham, who preaches white nationalism. That's what he preaches. I say that's what he preaches. The whole church structure in this country is white nationalists. You go inside a white church, that's what they preach in white nationalism. They got Jesus white, Mary white, God white, everybody white. That's white nationalism. [Applause] So what he does, the way he, the way he, the way he circumvents the the jealousy and envy that he ordinarily would incur among the heads of the church whenever you go into an area where the church already is, you're gonna run into trouble because they got that thing, what you call it, uh, syndicated. So they got a syndicate, just like the record is that I'm gonna say what's on my mind because the churches are the preachers already proved to you that they got to send it. [Applause] And when you're out in the rackets, whenever you're getting in another man's territory, you know they gang up on me. And that's the same way with you. You run into the same thing. So how Billy Graham gets around that, instead of going into somebody else's territory like he's gonna start a newer new church, he don't, he doesn't drive inside a church. He just goes in preaching Christ, and he says, "Everybody who believe in him, you go, you go wherever you find him." So this helps all the treasures, and so it says it helps all the churches. They don't fame. Well, uh, we're gonna do the same thing, only our gospel is black nationalism. His nationalism. Our gospel is black nationalism. And the gospel of black nationalism, as I told you, means you should control your own the politics of your community, the economy of your community, and all of the society in which you live should be under your control. And when, and once you, uh, the, uh, feel that this philosophy will solve your problem, go join any church where that's preached. Don't join a church where white nationalism is preached. Now, you can go to a Negro church and dispose the white nationalism. But when you are on, when you walk into Negro turns and a white Mary and some white angels, that Negro church is preaching white nationalism. Thank you. When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church where the philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church. Join that church. Did you see where the NAACP is preaching and practicing that which is designed to, uh, make black nationalism materialize? Join NAACP. Join any kind of organization, civic, religious, fraternal, political, or otherwise, that's based on lifting the black man up and making him master of his own community. [Applause] [Applause]
It'll be, it'll be the ballot, or it'll be the book. It'll be liberty, or it'll be death. And if you're not ready to pay that price, don't use the word freedom in your vocabulary. One more thing. I was on the program in Illinois recently with Senator Paul Douglas, a so-called liberal, so-called Democrat, so-called white man, uh, and at which time he told me that our African brothers were not interested in us. He says the Africans interested in the American League. Where I knew he was lying. But during the next, uh, two or three weeks, it's my intention and plan to make a tour of our African homeland. And I hope that when I come back, I'll be able to come back and let you know how our African brothers and sisters feel toward us. And I know before you go there, that they love us. We're one. We're the same. The same man who has colonized them all these years, colonized you and me too, all these years. And all we have to do now is wake up and work in unity and harmony, and the battle will be over. I want to thank the Freedom Now Party and the goal. I want to thank, uh, Milton and Richard Henry for inviting me here this afternoon. And also Reverend Clegg. And I want them to know that anything that I can ever do at any time to work with anybody in any kind of program that is sincerely designed to eliminate the political, the, the economic, and the social evils that confront all of our people in Detroit and elsewhere, all they got to do is give me a telephone call, and I'll be on the next jet right on into the center. [Applause]