Considered to be one of the top hundred American speeches of the 20th century, Malcolm X's address unified many of the strands of black nationalism, Pan-Africanism and third-world revolutionary thought that had been emerging in his ideas for years. ... He claimed that a revolution centered on nonviolent activism was not revolutionary at all: "Revolution is bloody, revolution is hostile, revolution knows no compromise." ... Ultimately, giving such a speech in Detroit, the center of labor activity and black working-class radicalism in the 1960s, opened Malcolm X to an entirely new audience from that of the Nation of Islam.
--- From "The Portable Malcolm X Reader" (Manning Marable and Garrett Felber, 2013): @
-- June 1963 photo from Corbis Images
* Transcript (from TeachingAmericanHistory.org): @
* Audio (from thespeechsite.com): @
* "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" (1965): @
* "The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X" (Robert Terrill, 2010): @
* MalcolmX.com: @
* The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University: @
* "African American Political Thought: Confrontation vs. Compromise, from 1945 to the Present" (2003): @
* The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University: @
* "African American Political Thought: Confrontation vs. Compromise, from 1945 to the Present" (2003): @
* "Say It Loud! Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity" (2010): @
* "Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit" (Angela D. Dillard, 2007): @
* "Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit" (Suzanne E. Smith, 2001): @
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