Excerpt from "The Ballot or the Bullet," a speech delivered in Cleveland, Ohio, April 3, 1964
Reprinted from Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Statements and Speeches, 1965; also available online at: www.indiana.edu/~rterrill/Text-BorB.htm l

"Now in speaking like this, it doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. And if the white man doesn't want us to be anti-him, let him stop oppressing and exploiting and degrading...