○  英语演讲稿-malcolm x: message to the grass roots  ○

you nonviolent. it's like when you go to the dentist, and the man's going to take your tooth. you're going to fight him when he starts pulling. so he squirts some stuff in your jaw called novocaine, to make you think they're not doing anything to you. so you sit there and 'cause you've got all of that novocaine in your jaw, you suffer peacefully. blood running all down your jaw, and you don't know what's happening. 'cause someone has taught you to suffer -- peacefully.

the white man do the same thing to you in the street, when he want [sic] to put knots on your head and take advantage of you and don't have to be afraid of your fighting back. to keep you from fighting back, he gets these old religious uncle toms to teach you and me, just like novocaine, suffer peacefully. don't stop suffering -- just suffer peacefully. as reverend cleage pointed out, "let your blood flow in the streets." this is a shame. and you know he's a christian preacher. if it's a shame to him, you know what it is to me.

there's nothing in our book, the quran -- you call it "ko-ran" -- that teaches us to suffer peacefully. our religion teaches us to be intelligent. be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. that's a good religion. in fact, that's that old-time religion. that's the one that ma and pa used to talk about: an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, and a head for a head, and a life for a life: that's a good religion. and doesn't nobody resent that kind of religion being taught but a wolf, who intends to make you his meal.

this is the way it is with the white man in america. he's a wolf and you're sheep. any time a shepherd, a pastor, teach [sic] you and me not to run from the white man and, at the same time, teach [sic] us not to fight the white man, he's a traitor to you and me. don't lay down our life all by itself. no, preserve your life. it's the best thing you got. and if y

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