"By Any Means Necessary " Malcolm X (1970)
I think the best way to describe this great book is a few excerpts.
"... by any means necessary. That's our motto. We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary."
"We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out."
"Those who claim to be enemies of the system were on their hands and knees waiting for [Democratic president] Johnson to get elected because he's supposed to be a man of peace; and he has troops invading the Congo [in Africa] right now and invading Saigon [Vietnam]...."
"This political, economic, and social system of America was produced from the enslavement of the black man and that particular system is capable only of reproducing that out of which itself was produced."
"No, you have got no friends in Washington, D.C.... You've got friends in Africa, friends in Asia, friends in Latin America."
"[The] thing that I would like to impress upon every Afro-American leader is that no kind of action in this country is ever going to bear fruit unless that action is tied in with the overall international struggle."
(In one of his speeches, Malcolm read the founding statement of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) which he led, adding his own comments. Malcolm didn't write the statement himself; it was developed by a committee of the new group.)
"[quoting OAAU] 'A first step in the program to end the existing system of racist education is to demand that the 10 percent of the [New York city] schools the Board of Education will not include in its [desegregation] plan be turned over to and run by the Afro-American community itself.'"
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Title: By Any Means Necessary
Author: Malcolm X
Introduction: Steve Clark
Publisher: Pathfinger Press
Year: 1970 (The 1st edition)
Number of pages: 95
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:: Contents ::
Introduction
An interview by A.B. Spellman (New York, March 19, 1964) p. 1
Answers to questions at the Militant Labor Forum (New York, April 8, 1964) p. 14
The founding rally of the OAAU (New York, June 28, 1964) p. 33
Harlem and the political machines (New York, July 4, 1964) p. 69
The second rally of the OAAU (New York, July 5, 1964) p. 75
A letter from Cairo (Cairo, August 29, 1964) p. 108
At a meeting in Paris (Paris, November 23, 1964) p. 113
An exchange on casualties in the Congo (New York, November 28, 1964) p. 127
The homecoming rally of the OAAU (New York, November 29, 1964) p. 133
The Young Socialist Interview (New York, January 18, 1965) p. 157
On being barred from France (London, February 9, 1965) p. 167
Short statements (1964-1965) p. 175
Index p. 185
