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to die; you've got to be ready to die if you try and force
yourself on the white man, because he'll get just as violent as those
crackers in Mississippi, right here in Cleveland. But we will still work
with you on the school boycotts be cause we're against a segregated
school system. A segregated school system produces children who, when
they graduate, graduate with crippled minds. But this does not mean that
a school is segregated because it's all black. A segregated school means
a school that is controlled by people who have no real interest in it
whatsoever.

Let me explain what I mean. A segregated district or community is a
community in which people live, but outsiders control the politics and
the economy of that community. They never refer to the white section as
a segregated community. It's the all-Negro section that's a segregated
community. Why? The white man controls his own school, his own bank, his
own economy, his own politics, his own everything, his own community;
but he also controls yours. When you're under someone else's control,
you're segregated. They'll always give you the lowest or the worst that
there is to offer, but it doesn't mean you're segregated just because
you have your own. You've got to control your own. Just like the white
man has control of his, you need to control yours.

You know the best way to get rid of segregation? The white man is more
afraid of separation than he is of integration. Segregation means that
he puts you away from him, but not far enough for you to be out of his
jurisdiction; separation means you're gone. And the white man will
integrate faster than he'll let you separate. So we will work with you
against the segregated school syst