马尔科姆演讲稿选票还是子弹 The Ballot or the.docx

1、马尔科姆演讲稿选票还是子弹 The Ballot or the马尔科姆演讲稿：选票还是子弹 The Ballot or thethe ballot or the bulletby malcolm xapril 3, 1964cleveland, ohiomr. moderator, brother lomax, brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: i just cant believe everyone in here is a friend, and i dont want to leave anybody out. the question

2、 tonight, as i understand it, is the negro revolt, and where do we go from here? or what next? in my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.before we try and explain what is meant by the ballot or the bullet, i would like to clarify something concerni

3、ng myself. im still a muslim; my religion is still islam. thats my personal belief. just as adam clayton powell is a christian minister who heads the abyssinian baptist church in new york, but at the same time takes part in the political struggles to try and bring about rights to the black people in

4、 this country; and dr. martin luther king is a christian minister down in atlanta, georgia, who heads another organization fighting for the civil rights of black people in this country; and reverend galamison, i guess youve heard of him, is another christian minister in new york who has been deeply

5、involved in the school boycotts to eliminate segregated education; well, i myself am a minister, not a christian minister, but a muslim minister; and i believe in action on all fronts by whatever means necessary.although im still a muslim, im not here tonight to discuss my religion. im not here to t

6、ry and change your religion. im not here to argue or discuss anything that we differ about, because its time for us to submerge our differences and realize that it is best for us to first see that we have the same problem, a xxmon problem, a problem that will make you catch hell whether youre a bapt

7、ist, or a methodist, or a muslim, or a nationalist. whether youre educated or illiterate, whether you live on the boulevard or in the alley, youre going to catch hell just like i am. were all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man. he just happens to be a whit

8、e man. all of us have suffered here, in this country, political oppression at the hands of the white man, economic exploitation at the hands of the white man, and social degradation at the hands of the white man.now in speaking like this, it doesnt mean that were anti-white, but it does mean were an

9、ti-exploitation, were anti-degradation, were anti-oppression. and if the white man doesnt want us to be anti-him, let him stop oppressing and exploiting and degrading us. whether we are christians or muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. if

10、we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we xxe out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man. if the late president kennedy could get together with khrushchev and exchange some wheat, we certainly have more in xxmon with each other th

11、an kennedy and khrushchev had with each other.if we dont do something real soon, i think youll have to agree that were going to be forced either to use the ballot or the bullet. its one or the other in 1964. it isnt that time is running out - time has run out!1964 threatens to be the most explosive

12、year america has ever witnessed. the most explosive year. why? its also a political year. its the year when all of the white politicians will be back in the so-called negro xxmunity jiving you and me for some votes. the year when all of the white political crooks will be right back in your and my xx

13、munity with their false promises, building up our hopes for a letdown, with their trickery and their treachery, with their false promises which they dont intend to keep. as they nourish these dissatisfactions, it can only lead to one thing, an explosion; and now we have the type of black man on the

14、scene in america today - im sorry, brother lomax - who just doesnt intend to turn the other cheek any longer.dont let anybody tell you anything about the odds are against you. if they draft you, they send you to korea and make you face 800 million chinese. if you can be brave over there, you can be

15、brave right here. these odds arent as great as those odds. and if you fight here, you will at least know what youre fighting for.im not a politician, not even a student of politics; in fact, im not a student of much of anything. im not a democrat. im not a republican, and i dont even consider myself

16、 an american. if you and i were americans, thered be no problem. those honkies that just got off the boat, theyre already americans; polacks are already americans; the italian refugees are already americans. everything that came out of europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an american. and as lo

17、ng as you and i have been over here, we arent americans yet.well, i am one who doesnt believe in deluding myself. im not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. sitting at the table doesnt make you a diner, unless you eat some of whats on that

18、 plate. being here in america doesnt make you an american. being born here in america doesnt make you an american. why, if birth made you american, you wouldnt need any legislation; you wouldnt need any amendments to the constitution; you wouldnt be faced with civil-rights filibustering in washingto

19、n, , right now. they dont have to pass civil-rights legislation to make a polack an american.no, im not an american. im one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of americanism. one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. so, im

20、not standing here speaking to you as an american, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver - no, not i. im speaking as a victim of this american system. and i see america through the eyes of the victim. i dont see any american dream; i see an american nightmare.these 22 million victims are w

21、aking up. their eyes are xxing open. theyre beginning to see what they used to only look at. theyre bexxing politically mature. they are realizing that there are new political trends from coast to coast. as they see these new political trends, its possible for them to see that every time theres an e

22、lection the races are so close that they have to have a recount. they had to recount in massachusetts to see who was going to be governor, it was so close. it was the same way in rhode island, in minnesota, and in many other parts of the country. and the same with kennedy and nixon when they ran for

23、 president. it was so close they had to count all over again. well, what does this mean? it means that when white people are evenly divided, and black people have a bloc of votes of their own, it is left up to them to determine whos going to sit in the white house and whos going to be in the dog hou

24、se.lt. was the black mans vote that put the present administration in washington, your vote, your dumb vote, your ignorant vote, your wasted vote put in an administration in washington, , that has seen fit to pass every kind of legislation imaginable, saving you until last, then filibustering on top

25、 of that. and your and my leaders have the audacity to run around clapping their hands and talk about how much progress were making. and what a good president we have. if he wasnt good in texas, he sure cant be good in washington, because texas is a lynch state. it is in the same breath as mississip

26、pi, no different; only they lynch you in texas with a texas accent and lynch you in mississippi with a mississippi accent. and these negro leaders have the audacity to go and have some coffee in the white house with a texan, a southern cracker - thats all he is - and then xxe out and tell you and me

27、 that hes going to be better for us because, since hes from the south, he knows how to deal with the southerners. what kind of logic is that? let eastland be president, hes from the south too. he should be better able to deal with them than johnson.in this present administration they have in the hou

28、se of representatives 257 democrats to only 177 republicans. they control two-thirds of the house vote. why cant they pass something that will help you and me? in the senate, there are 67 senators who are of the democratic party. only 33 of them are republicans. why, the democrats have got the gover

29、nment sewed up, and youre the one who sewed it up for them. and what have they given you for it? four years in office, and just now getting around to some civil-rights legislation. just now, after everything else is gone, out of the way, theyre going to sit down now and play with you all summer long

30、 - the same old giant con game that they call filibuster. all those are in cahoots together. dont you ever think theyre not in cahoots together, for the man that is heading the civil-rights filibuster is a man from georgia named richard russell. when johnson became president, the first man he asked

31、for when he got back to washington, , was dicky - thats how tight they are. thats his boy, thats his pal, thats his buddy. but theyre playing that old con game. one of them makes believe hes for you, and hes got it fixed where the other one is so tight against you, he never has to keep his promise.s

32、o its time in 1964 to wake up. and when you see them xxing up with that kind of conspiracy, let them know your eyes are open. and let them know you - something else thats wide open too. its got to be the ballot or the bullet. the ballot or the bullet. if youre afraid to use an expression like that, you should get on out of the country; you should get back in the cotton patch; you should get back in the alley. they get all the negro vote, and after they get it, the negro gets nothing in return. all they did when they go