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is the government itself, the government of America,
that is responsible for the oppression and exploitation and degradation
of black people in this country. And you should drop it in their lap.
This government has failed the Negro. This so-called democracy has
failed the Negro. And all these white liberals have definitely failed
the Negro.

So, where do we go from here? First, we need some friends. We need some
new allies. The entire civil-rights struggle needs a new interpretation,
a broader interpretation. We need to look at this civil-rights thing
from another angle -- from the inside as well as from the outside. To
those of us whose philosophy is black nationalism, the only way you can
get involved in the civil-rights struggle is give it a new
interpretation. That old interpretation excluded us. It kept us out. So,
we're giving a new interpretation to the civil-rights struggle, an
interpretation that will enable us to come into it, take part in it. And
these handkerchief-heads who have been dillydallying and pussy footing
and compromising -- we don't intend to let them pussyfoot and dillydally
and compromise any longer.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then
can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours? You
haven't even made progress, if what's being given to you, you should
have had already. That's not progress. And I love my Brother Lomax, the
way he pointed out we're right back where we were in 1954. We're not
even as far up as we were in 1954. We're behind where we were in 1954.
There's more segregation now than there was in 1954. There's more racial
animosity, more racial hatred, more racial violence today in 2005, than
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