You'll get your freedom

[resisting arrest with violence]

In late 1964, Malcolm X told a group of black students in Mississippi:

You'll get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get your freedom; then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it. When you get that kind of attitude, they'll label you as…a 'crazy nigger.' Or they'll call you an extremist or a subversive, or seditious, or a red or a radical. But when you stay radical long enough and get enough people to be like you, you'll get your freedom.

From A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn in the chapter entitled "Or Does It Explode?"

[viva le revolution]

freedom won't be given, it has to be taken!

[Paradox]

"It's liberty or death. It's freedom for everybody or it's freedom for nobody."
- Malcolm X

You damn straight.

[Organic Revolution]

malcom x was a genius.

[Clarksist]

Originally posted by viva le [email protected] 7 2005, 11:06 PM
freedom won't be given, it has to be taken!
Over simplyfying aren't we?

I mean Malcolm X was a great thinker and what not, but it seems he was too rigid. I guess I feel that way because he never seemed to bend with the situation.

Good guy though.

[lucky71777]

the same way that che didn't bend? i think that ur comformist way of thinking is quite unrevolutionary...

[Clarksist]

Originally posted by [email protected] 8 2005, 06:29 AM
the same way that che didn't bend? i think that ur comformist way of thinking is quite unrevolutionary...
No, I'm being realistic. Not every situation is the same. One situation is gonna be different than another, so you have to bend and not be as rigid as to say never on some things. I'm not saying change up your ideals, I'm just saying be realistic about the situation you're dealing with.

Sometimes militarism only alienates yourself from the masses.