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next month. It'll be ballots, or it'll be
bullets. It'll be liberty, or it will be death. The only difference
about this kind of death -- it'll be reciprocal. You know what is meant
by "reciprocal"? That's one of Brother Lomax's words. I stole it from
him. I don't usually deal with those big words because I don't usually
deal with big people. I deal with small people. I find you can get a
whole lot of small people and whip hell out of a whole lot of big
people. They haven't got anything to lose, and they've got every thing
to gain. And they'll let you know in a minute: "It takes two to tango;
when I go, you go."

The black nationalists, those whose philosophy is black nationalism, in
bringing about this new interpretation of the entire meaning of civil
rights, look upon it as meaning, as Brother Lomax has pointed out,
equality of opportunity. Well, we're justified in seeking civil rights,
if it means equality of opportunity, because all we're doing there is
trying to collect for our investment. Our mothers and fathers invested
sweat and blood. Three hundred and ten years we worked in this country
without a dime in return -- I mean without a dime in return. You let the
white man walk around here talking about how rich this country is, but
you never stop to think how it got rich so quick. It got rich because
you made it rich.

You take the people who are in this audience right now. They're poor.
We're all poor as individuals. Our weekly salary individually amounts to
hardly anything. But if you take the salary of everyone in here
collectively, it'll fill up a whole lot of baskets. It's a lot of
wealth. If you can collect the wages of just these people right here for
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