Because 1964 threatens to be an explosive year on the racial front...
...I have called this press conference this morning...
...in order to clarify my position in that struggle.
Internal differences within the Nation of Islam have forced me out of it.
In the past, I thought the thoughts...
...and I spoke the words of The Honourable Elijah Muhammad.
If you recall, everything I said...
...I started off with "The Honourable Elijah Muhammad teaches us thus, and so."
That's over. From now on, I speak my own words and think my own thoughts.
Now that I have more, uh, independence of action...
...I intend to use a more flexible approach toward working with others...
...to get a solution to this problem.
I'm not out to fight other Negro leaders.
I have now forgotten every bad thing that other leaders have said about me...
...and I pray that they also forget the many bad things that I have said about them.
We must work together. We must find a common solution to a common problem.
I'm going to organise and lead a new mosque in New York City...
...known as Muslim Mosque Incorporated.
This gives us the religious base...
...and the spiritual, uh, force necessary to rid our people of the vices...
...that destroy the moral fibre of our community.
Our political philosophy will be black nationalism...
...which means we want to control the politics of our community.
The Muslim Mosque Incorporated will remain wide open for ideas...
...and financial aid from all quarters.
Whites can help us, but they can't join us.
There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
We cannot think of uniting with others...
...until we have first learned to unite amongst ourselves.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others...
...until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
In my desire to fully understand the religion of Islam...
...as practised by 750 million Muslims around the world...
...I intend to make a pilgrimage, orholy, uh, journey to Mecca.
This pilgrimage is a religious requirement or duty of every Muslim that is able...
...uh, to make the pilgrimage at least once in his lifetime.
(men shout)
- I'm Egyptian. What are you? - American.
- American. What's your name? - Malcolm. Malcolm.
Malcolm!
(all shout in Arabic)
Yes, I want to get...
How much?
- How much? - 20 Egyptian pound.
- For one? - Yes.
- Special price for you. - Special price for me(!)
OK, thank you. Where can I get a better price?
(shouting in Arabic)
- What's your name? - Ah. Muhammad.
- Muhammad. I'm Malcolm. - Malcolm? You Malcolm?
- Malcolm X. You? - Gamaal.
Gamaal. All right, Gamaal. I'm from uh, Harlem, from the United States.
- Harem? - Harlem.
- Hareem? - No, not "hareem". Har-lem.
- Can you take me to show me around... - Hashish, hashish?
- Not hashish. Uh... - Hashish?
- Uh, the Pyramids? - Yeah! * Pyramid! *
- No. Pyramid. Pyramid. - (both) * Pyramid, pyramid, pirimidimid! *
- No, no, no. - One pyramid, ezay ya welad?
- Pyramids? - Pyramids!
- You gonna take me?
Yes! Yes!
- Yes! - Sphinx? Sphinx?
- Sphinx! Yeah. Right. - Ah!
* Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar
* Allahu akbar
(camel grunts)
- * Ash-hadu an la ilaaha illa-Ilah - Hey! Malcolm! Pyramids! Pyramids!
Pyramids!
* Ash-hadu an la...
*... ilaaha illa-Ilah
* Ash-hadu anna Muhammadan...
*... Rasulu-Ilah
* Ash-hadu anna Muhammadan...
*... Rasulu-Ilah
* Hayyia 'alal salah
* Ash-hadu an la ilaaha illa-Ilah
* Ash-hadu alla...
...ilaaha illa-Ilah... *
My darling Betty...
...everywhere I go, I am welcomed as a representative of our people.
Our struggle is known and respected worldwide.
Coincidentally, there are two white men who follow me around wherever I go.
I wonder who they're working for. If I was a betting man, I'd say the CIA.
What's yourguess?
Today I arrived in Arabia.
"I have never witnessed such sincere hospitality...
...and true brotherhood...
(Betty)... as practised here...
...in the ancient home of Abraham, Muhammad...
...and the great prophets of the Scriptures."
"Today, with thousands of others...
(Malcolm) I proclaimed God's greatness in the sacred city of Mecca.
Wearing the ihram garb, I made my seven circuits around the Kaaba.
I drank from the well of Zem Zem.
I prayed to Allah from Mount Arafat.
It was the only time in my life that I stood before the Creator of All...
...and felt like a complete human being.
As salaam alaikum, wa rahmat llah wa barakatoh.
As salaam alaikum, wa rahmat llah.
(pilgrims) Salaam alaikum, wa rahmat llah.
Now, you may be shocked by these words...
...but I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass...
...andprayed to the same God with fellow Muslims whose eyes were blue...
...whose hair was blond...
...and whose skin was the whitest of white.
And we were all brothers, truly...
...people of all colours and races believing in one God, in one humanity.
- Wa elnamata! - Wa elnamata!
- Laka wal mulk! - Laka wal mulk!
- La sharik leka! - La sharik leka!
- Lebeyk llah uma lebeyk! - Lebeyk llah uma lebeyk!
Each hour here in this sacred land...
...enables me to have a greaterspiritual insight into what is happening in America.
The American Negro can neverbe blamed for his racial animosities...
...he is only reacting to 400 years of oppression and discrimination.
But as racism leads America up the suicidalpath...
...I do believe that the youngergeneration will see the handwriting on the wall...
...and many of them will want to turn to the spiritualpath of the truth...
...the only way left in this world...
...to ward off the disaster that racism must surely lead to.
Once before in prison, the truth came and blinded me.
Well, it has happened again.
In the past, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people.
These generalisations caused injuries to some white folks who did not deserve it.
"Because of the spiritual rebirth which I was blessed to undergo...
...as a result of my pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca...
...I no longer subscribe to sweeping indictments of one race.
I intend to be very careful...
...not to sentence anyone...
(Malcolm) ...who has not been proven guilty.
I am not a racist...
...and I do not subscribe to any of the tenets of racism.
In all honesty and sincerity, it can be stated that I wish...
...nothing but freedom, justice and equality...
...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for allpeople.
Now, my first concern, of course, is with the group to which I belong...
...for we, more than any others, are deprived of our inalienable rights.
But I believe the true practice of Islam can remove the cancer of racism...
...from the hearts and the souls of all Americans.
And if I can die having brought any light...
...having exposed any meaningful truth that will help destroy this disease...
...then all the credit is due to Allah, the Lord of all the Worlds.
And only the mistakes have been mine.
Please give all my love to the children.
I love you dearly.
Sincerely, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz...
...Malcolm X.
* Bismillah e errahman e erraheen
* Alhamdu lil-lahi rab-bil al ala-meen
* Arrahman el erraheem
* Maliki yaum el eddeen
* lyyaka nabudu wa iyyaka nasta een
* lhdinas sirata almustaqeem
* Siratal el latheena anamta alaihim...
*... ghairil maghdubi alaihim, wa la adhdhaal leen
* Aameen
Let's begin.
Malcolm, you said on your trip abroad you sensed a feeling of great brotherhood.
Uh, yes. When I was in Mecca, making the pilgrimage...
...the brotherhood that existed there...
...among all people, all races, all levels of people...
...who had accepted the religion of Islam...
...what it had done, Islam, for those people, despite their, uh...
...complexion differences...
...perhaps ifpeople here in America would try and...
...practise and study the religion of Islam...
...it might help to erase the plague of racism here.
I think Muslims over there look at themselves as human beings...
...as part of the same human family.
Today, my friends are black...
...red, yellow, brown and white.
Malcolm, are you prepared to ask the United Nations...
to bring charges against the United States for its treatment of the American Negro?
- Oh, yes. Oh, yes. - (applause)
The audience will have to be quiet.
Please. Please.
Yes, as I stated earlier, that, um...
...those nations, African nations, Latin nations, Asian nations...
...are... are very hypocritical when they stand up in the UN...
...and denounce the racism practised in South Africa, and at the same time...
...say absolutely nothing about the practice of racism in America.
Now, I wouldn't be a man if I didn't do so.
- I would not be a man. - Are you prepared now...
...to work with some of the leaders of other civil rights organisations?
Yes, we're prepared to work with any groups, leaders, organisations...
...as long as they're genuinely interested in, uh, results. Positive results.
Does your new beard have any religious significance?
- (laughter) - Uh, no. Not particularly.
But I think that, uh, as black people in America...
...strive to throw off the shackles of... of mental colonialism...
...they will also reflect their desire...
...to throw off the shackles of, uh, cultural colonialism.
I believe that a mental and cultural migration back to Africa...
...not necessarily a physical migration...
...not at this point, but a mental and cultural migration back to Africa...
...which only means that we reaffirm our bond with our brothers over there...
...would help to strengthen us here in America, black people in America...
...not only spiritually, but as well as giving us the incentive...
...to solve some of our problems here at, uh, at home.
One of your more controversial remarks
was a call for black people to get rifles and form rifle clubs.
Do you still favour that for self-defence?
Well, I don't see why that's controversial.
I think that if white people find themselves the victims of the same kind of violence...
...that black people found themselves victims of here in America...
...and if the government was unable or unwilling to do anything about it...
...I think that it would be intelligence on their part to defend themselves.
- What about the guns, Malcolm? - (flashbulb pops)
When you tell your people to stop being violent against my people...
...l'll tell my people to put away their guns.
- So then you are still an extremist... - Get your hand outta my pocket!
Next question.
(telephone rings)
Malcolm, you one dead red nigger.
Your days on this earth are numbered... brother.
Come to bed.
Get some rest.
- Mm... - I'm sorry, Betty.
Sorry for what?
- Well, I haven't been the best husband... - Shh.
Or the best father. A family shouldn't be separated like ours has been.
And I promise you I'll never make another long trip without you and the children.
I miss you and the girls.
We'll all be together, I promise you that.
Dear heart.
I love you.
Thank you.
(Betty chuckles)
Get some sleep.
We had the best organisation a black man will ever see.
Niggers ruined it.
(baby coos)
(barrel clicks)
- (whispers) Betty. - Mm?
Betty. Wake up.
- My babies! - Let's go! Let's get out! Girls, come on!
- Out, out, out! Outside! Out, out, out! Go! - (children shriek)
Out!
Go! Go! Run! Run, run, run, run!
Come on! Run!
- Somebody call the fire department! - (shrieks) Help! Help!
Come on!
Call the fire department, please! Somebody call the fire department!
I'm a man!
Evidently, the, uh...
...some type of bomb, Molotov cocktail bomb...
...was thrown against the back of the house.
One was thrown on the side of the house, from what I could tell.
It bounced up against the window. That's what woke my daughter up.
Had it gone in...
...my two-year-old, my four-year-old and my six-year-old daughter would've been...
I'm just telling you, had that happened...
...l'd've taken my rifle, I'd've gone after anyone in sight.
Do you think this was a warning, or an attempt on your life?
What does it look like? Does it look like a warning to you?
This is a definite attempt by the Nation of Islam...
...upon the strict orders of Mr Elijah Muhammad.
D'you know what they're saying at the Muslim headquarters?
It doesn't matter to me. I can tell what they're doing.
Minister Baines, can you please tell us, who bombed the house?
Uh, we feel it's a publicity stunt on the part of Malcolm X...
...but we hope it isn't a case of... if he can't keep the house, we won't get it, either.
That's enough. 'Scuse me.
(tyres screech)
- Malcolm! - I'm all right. I'm all right.
- Betty and the kids? - They're fine. They're across the street.
Let's get two men on post, two in front of the house.
- Brother Minister, did you see anybody? - No, I didn't see anyone.
But I know who it is. You know I know who did it.
- Give us the command, Malcolm. - Don't worry about the command.
- Two men here on post, two in front. - We got an informer.
Spark it.
As salaam alaikum, my brothers.
Here's yourkey...
...and enjoy your stay. - Thank you.
(telephone rings)
OAAU.
Brother Earl, it's Malcolm.
- Earl? - Malcolm? Where are you?
- We've been calling all over the city. - Wait a minute. Hold the phone.
I'm downtown. I'm, uh, I'm in a hotel.
I'm trying to get some work done for tomorrow.
- Let me and the brothers come down. - It's all right. I'm OK.
I wish you would listen to us. Now, about this meeting up at the Audubon Ballroom.
- We have to start friskin' people. - No, no. No. No, I don't want, uh...
I don't want anybody frisked.
We have to change our way of thinking, brother.
We have to make people feel comfortable.
If I can't be safe around my own kind, who can I be safe around?
I trust that Allah willprotect me.
Well, believin' in Allah's one thing, but I also believe in bein' armed.
Brother, we don't want black people killing each other. All right?
All right?
We'll protect you, Malcolm. As salaam alaikum.
No. Peace be unto you, Earl. Peace be unto you.
(shotgun blast)
* Junior Walker & The All Stars: "Shotgun"
* I said, Shotgun!
* Shoot 'em 'fore they run, now
* Do the jerk, baby
* Do the dirty now
Good evening. Do you have a Malcolm X registered?
- * And then you go downtown now - (coughs)
* I said "Buy yourself a shotgun now"
- (telephone rings) - * We're gonna break it down, baby, now
* We're gonna load it up, baby, now
(telephone rings)
* Oh, can you shoot 'em 'fore they run, now
* I said, Shotgun!
* Shoot 'em 'fore they run, now
(telephone rings)
- * Do the jerk, baby - (telephone rings)
* Do the dirty now
* Hey!
(telephone rings)
(baby grizzles)
(telephone rings)
That red nigger of yours is dead! So are yourbastard children!
* Shotgun!
* Shoot 'em 'fore they run, now
(telephone rings)
* Do the jerk, baby
* Do the dirty now
* Hey!
* Put on your high-heel shoes
* I said, we're goin' down here, listen to 'em play the blues
- Hello? - Wake up, brother.
- Wa-salaam alaikum. - (sighs)
* We're gonna pick tomatoes
- (telephone rings) - (babies cry)
You hear me, and you hear me well. You come anywhere near my family...
...and I will kill you. Do you hear? - Betty. Betty. Betty.
It's Malcolm.
Malcolm...
(baby continues crying)
Oh...
...they keep calling. They keep threatening. I'm going crazy every time a phone rings.
I know. Just don't answer the phone any more. Everything's gonna be all right.
- When's it going to stop? - Don't answer the phone any more.
- Are the brothers there? They on post? - Yes. They're outside.
All right, well, you let them answer the phone. You don't touch the phone.
- Beloved, where are you? - I'm in a hotel.
A hotel.
Girls asleep?
Yes. I just...
...put them down to bed.
Can we come to the meeting tomorrow?
No, I don't think so.
The girls and I want to see you. We miss you.
Betty, it's too dangerous.
It's been dangerous.
Listen, I haven't told this to anybody...
...but I've been thinkin' about what's been happening to me lately, to us lately, and...
...l'm gonna stop saying that it's the Nation of Islam that's behind this.
I know what they can do and I know what they can't do. I trained them.
Some of the things that have been happening lately, I just...
...l'm gonna stop saying it's just the Nation of Islam.
They're not working alone. They're getting a lot of help.
No! Are you sure?
I miss you, Betty.
You're with us even when you're away.
Now, listen, you come on down to the Audubon tomorrow.
We'll be all right. We're not gonna let this get us down. We're gonna be fine.
- You come on down. Bring the girls, too. - The girls and I miss you so much.
I'll see you tomorrow.
- Compared to King, this guy's a monk. - Good night, dear heart.
- Sleep well. I love you. - Good night.
* Sam Cooke: "A Change Is Gonna Come"
- Attallah, sit back. Sit up straight. - * I was born by the river
* In a little tent
* Oh, andjust like the river I've been runnin '
* Ever since
* It's been a long
* A long time comin ', but I know
* A change gonna come
- * Oh, yes, it will - (children bicker)
* It's been too hard livin '
* But I'm afraid to die
* Cos I don't know what's up there
* Beyond the sky
* It's been a long
* A long time comin '
* But I know
* A change gonna come
* Lord, yes, it will
We're gonna see Daddy.
* I go to the movies
- Uh-huh. - * And I go downtown
* Somebody keep tellin'me
- * "Don't hang around" - Little sister!
- What do you say to the nice man? - Thank you.
You're very welcome, my beautiful little sister.
Bye-bye.
* But I know a change gonna come
* Oh, yes, it will
* Then I go to my brother
The Minister hasn't arrived yet.
Don't worry. He'll be here like clockwork.
* Help me, please
* But he winds up
* Knockin'me
* Back down on my knees
* Lord
* There've been times that I thought
* I couldn 't last for long
- * But now I think I'm able - Son?
- * To carry on... * - Son, are you all right?
Are you OK?
Good. I recognise you.
Don't you pay them folks no nevermind.
You just keep right on doin' what you doin'.
- Yes, ma'am. - (chuckles) I'll pray for you, son.
- Well, thank you. - Jesus will protect you.
- As salaam alaikum. - Wa-alaikum salaam.
Is the charter ready?
- Uh, no, Brother Minister. - No?
No? Why not?
You had enough time, didn't you, you and the sister?
I apologise, Brother Minister, we'll have it next week.
Next week? I don't... we don't have next week. We need it today.
The people are waiting to hear the charter today, not next week.
Next week, Minister.
Is the Reverend here?
The Reverend called, said he wouldn't be able to attend!
So we don't have our opening speaker, we don't have a charter, I mean...
...why didn't you inform me about this last night? I talked to you.
- I called Sister Betty... - You didn't have to call Sister Betty!
I talked to you. You should've told me! What are you telling Sister Betty for?
- Well, I assumed... - Don't assume anything!
Go on down.
- Sister, you go on with the brother. - Yes, sir.
Malcolm.
What's wrong?
It's a time for martyrs now.
The way I feel, I...
...I shouldn't go out there today.
Fine. Let's cancel it.
My wife out there? And the children?
They're out front as always.
All right, you go out to the payphone outside.
Call up the Reverend and see if he can make it down here.
I gotta be on post, Malcolm. I'm supposed to be out there guardin' you.
That's a duty for secretarial staff.
- I'll ask Sister Robin if she... - Go outside to the payphone.
Call up the Reverend. See if he can make it down here.
All right.
(walkie-talkie crackles)
- Responding. - All right.
Please, let's settle down.
Let's get the programme started. The Minister will be out...
Thank you.
I apologise for raising my voice earlier. Very disrespectful.
Brother Minister, I understand.
Lifestyles are changing, minds are changing...
...why, everything is changing!
So you and I must consider that we're living in very, very changing times.
And what might be true today may not be true tomorrow.
And without any further ado...
...I present to you Brother Minister Malcolm.
And I pray that you and I will listen.
Listen...
...hear, and understand. Thank you.
Daddy!
- As salaam alaikum. - Wa-alaikum salaam.
Get your hand outta my pocket!
- Get your hands outta my pocket! - Brother...
Brother, please, hold it!
- (screaming) - Calm down!
- Please, brothers! - Oh, my God!
Malcolm!
- (screams) - Malcolm!
- (screaming) - Get down!
(gunshots)
Hey!
Come on!
- Shoot him! - I got him...
- (shrieks) - C'mon! C'mon!
Malcolm!
(wails)
- Get an ambulance! Get an ambulance! - Somebody get an ambulance!
They killed him!
(sobs) They killed him!
- (gunshot) - (cries out)
Ah, fuck!
- Kill him! - Get him, he shot Brother Malcolm!
- I'm gonna kill him! I'm gonna kill him! - No!
I didn't do it! I didn't...
- Get him! - (shouting)
He killed Malcolm!
(policeman shouts)
- Kill him! - Back off!
I seen him!
- He did it! - No!
(sobs)
(Betty keens)
(Betty wails)
- Get out of the way! C'mon, folks! - (siren wails)
Get out of the way, please!
- Move it! Get out of the way! Get back! - Move! Move! Move, move!
- Please! Get out of the way! - Move! Move!
- Everybody! Stand back! - C'mon, move!
Move him across! Stand back! Get out of the way! Get back!
- (shouting) - Please! One statement! Please!
The person you know as Malcolm X is no more.
The assassination of Malcolm X...
...was an unfortunate tragedy.
It reveals that there are still, er, numerous people in our nation...
...who have degenerated to the point of expressing dissent through murder...
...and we haven't learned to disagree without being violently disagreeable.
(Ossie Davis) Here...
...at this final hour...
...in this quiet place...
...Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes...
...extinguished now...
...and gone from us forever.
It is not in the memory of man...
- (gunshot) ...that this beleaguered, unfortunate...
...but nonetheless proud community...
...has found a braver, more gallant young champion...
...than this Afro-American...
...who lies before us...
...unconquered still.
I say the word again as he would want me to...
...Afro-American.
Afro-American Malcolm.
Malcolm had stopped being Negro years ago.
It had become too small, too puny...
...too weak a word for him.
Malcolm was bigger than that.
Malcolm had become an Afro-American.
And he wanted so desperately...
...that we, that all his people...
...would become Afro-Americans, too.
There are those who still considerit their duty...
...as "friends of the Negro people" to tell us to revile him...
...to flee even from the presence of his memory...
...to save ourselves by writing him out of the history of our turbulent times.
And we will smile.
They will say that he is of hate, a fanatic...
...a racist who can only bring evil to the cause for which you struggle.
And we will answer and say unto them...
"Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm?"
Did you ever touch him, or have him smile at you?
Did you everreally listen to him?
You haven't done the right thing!
Was he ever himself associated with violence, or any public disturbance?
For if you did, you would know him.
And if you did, you would know why we must honour him.
Malcolm was ourmanhood, our living, black manhood.
This was his meaning to his people.
And in honouring him, we honour the best in ourselves.
Howevermuch we may have differed with him...
...or with each other about him and his value as a man...
...let his going from us...
...serve only to bring us togethernow.
Consigning these mortal remains to earth, the common mother of all...
...secure in the knowledge that what we place in the ground...
...is no more now a man...
...but a seed...
...which, after the winter of our discontent...
...will come forth again to meet us. - (crowd chants) Malcolm X!
And we shall know him then for what he was and is:
...a prince.
Our own black shining prince...
...who didn 't hesitate to die...
...because he loved us so.
(woman) And so, today...
...May 19th, we celebrate Malcolm X's birthday...
...because he was a great, great Afro-American.
Malcolm X is you. All of you. And you are Malcolm X.
I'm Malcolm X!
I am Malcolm X!
As Brother Malcolm said...
..."We declare...
...our right...
...on this earth...
...to be a man...
...to be a human being...
...to be given the rights...
...of a human being...
...to be respected...
...as a human being...
...in this society...
...on this earth...
...in this day...
...which we intend to bring into existence...
...by any means necessary! - (cheering and applause)
* (Chorus) Some long day
* (Aretha Franklin) Someday
* Someday we'll all
* We'll all be free
* (chorus) Someday
* Yeah
* Someday, someday we'll all
* We're sure gonna be free
* (chorus) Freedom
* Oh, yeah
* Free
* Hang
* Onto the world
* As it spins around
* Just
* Don't let the spin get you down
* Things are movin '
* Fast
* Hold on tight
* And you will last
* Keep yourself-respect
* And your woman and manly pride
* Get yourself in gear
* Keep your stride
* Nevermind your fears
* Nevermind 'em, nevermind
* Brighter days
* Will soon be here
* Take it from me
* Someday
* We'll all be free
* (chorus) Free, ooh-ooh
* Oh, yeah
* Take it from me
* Someday
* We'll all be free
* (chorus) Free
* (chorus) Ooh
* Hold on to the world
* You got to be free within yourself
* Keep on walkin' tall
* Hold your head up high
* Lay your dreams
* Right up to the sky
* And sing, sing yourgreatest song
* (chorus) Sing
* Sing it, sing it, sing it, sing it, sing it, sing
* And you keep right on
* Take it from me
* Someday
* We'll all be free
- * (chorus) Free, ooh-ooh - * Freedom, whoa-oh, oh-oh, yeah
* Take it from me
* Someday
* We'll all be free
* (chorus) Free Every time I thank my Lord
* Free
* Someday
* We'll all be free
* (chorus) Oh, oh, oh
* Ooh, yeah, we'll all be free
* Free Every time I thank my Lord
* Time for a change, movin'real fast
* Take it from me, we'll all be free, yeah
* Oh, mighty brothers
* (chorus) Oh, oh, oh
- * Freedom, freedom, you'll be free - * Oh... oh
* Free Now it's time to make a choice
* Women, they say
* Oh, yeah
* We're gonna be free
* (chorus) Come, brothers
- * Oh, go on, my brothers - * (chorus) Ooh, ooh, ooh
- * So praise to the Lord... - * Yes! (fades out) *
* Arrested Development: "Revolution"
* Revolu...
* Revolution!
* Revolu...
* Revolution!
* Revolu...
* Revolution!
* Revolu...
* Revolution!
* Brothers and sisters
* Let me share with you some news
* As I sit on my plush couch watchin' the news
* There has been a rude awakening
'* That I have marched until my feet have bled
* And I have rioted until they called the Feds
* "What's left?" my conscience said
- * "What's left?" my conscience said - * Revolution!
Go!
* As I look about, where do I see the little ones
* Playin' amongst each other with their waterguns
* In pure poverty
* Generations of good people in cycles of poverty
* It bothers me so I ask myself, I say
* Are you doin' as much as you can for the struggle?
* No!
* Am I doin' as much as I can for the struggle?
* No!
* Then why do I cry when my people are in trouble?
* My ancestors slapped me in the face and said
* Go!
* Harriet Tubman told me to get on up
* Marcus Garvey said to me "Brother, ya get on up"
* My Brother Malcolm X, need I name more?
* It ain 't like we never seen blood before
* Come on, let's talk revolution now
* Revolution!
* All my people say
* Revolution!
* All my brothers say
* Revolution!
* All my sisters say
* Revolution!
* All my people say
* Revolution!
* Hey!
* Revolution!
* All my people say
* Revolution!
* All my people say
* Revolution!
* I see blood, I want Malcolm as one channel
* I see tears, cos now it seems that we forgot him
* I see the years of people searchin' for solutions
* Restitutions, excuses Don't want no more confusion
* Come on, come on, Let's talk right, let's talk right
* Talk up, talk up But don't talk up all night
* There's gotta be action if you want satisfaction
- * If not for yourself, for the young ones - * The children
* The UN, the US, we can't allowya
* To tell us again that the ghetto is not as important as gettin'in Bosnia
* I ain 't with it, just forget it
* We can't even debate if you don't understand our situation
Come on!
* You don't want us to go get a gun now, do you?
* You don't like to see people runnin' around now
* Yet stillya wanna live like 90210 while we scream out
- * Yo! - * Freedom!
* My grandmother's a-goin ' "We are wasted"
* "You must acquire a taste for something we've never tasted"
* So, people, let us wet our palates
* It's either the bullet or the ballot Go now
* Revolution now
* All my people say
* Revolution!
* All my brothers say
* Revolution!
* All my sisters say
* Revolution!
* Hey!
* Revolution!
* All my people say
- * Revolution! - * Let's talk about a revolution
- * Revolution! - * All my people say
- * Let's talk about a revolution - * Hey!
* Revolution!
* Revolu...
* Revolution!
* Revolu...
* Revolution!
* Revolu...
* Revolution!
* Revolu...
* Revolution!
* Revolu...
* Revolution!
* Revolu...
Revolution!
* Revolu...
* Revolution!
* Now I see I understand what my people have said
* They tell me to fight!
* Fight for the ancestors who are dead!
* For Harriet Tubman, MOVE Organisation, David Watts...
*... the Black Panthers...
*... Kwame Nkumah, Marcus Garvey...
...Jane Pittman.
- * Revolution! - * Mm-hm, mm
- * Revolution! - * Mm-mm-mm, hm-mm-mm, mm
- * Revolution! - * Mm-hm, mm
- * Revolution! - * Mm-mm-mm, hm-mm-mm, mm
- Revolution! - Mm-hm, mm
- * Revolution! - * Mm-mm-mm hm-mm-mm, mm
- * Mm-hm, mm - * Revolution!
- * Mm-mm-mm, hm-mm-mm, mm - Revolution!
- * Mm-hm, mm - * Revolution!
- * Mm-mm-mm, hm-mm-mm, mm - Revolution!
- * Mm-hm, mm - * Revolution!
- * Mm-mm-mm, hm-mm-mm, mm - * Revolution! (fades out) *
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