3:00:03
..in this quiet place...
3:00:07
..Harlem has come to bid farewell
to one ofits brightest hopes...
3:00:12
..extinguished now
and gone from us forever.
3:00:18
It is not in the memory
of man that this berated...
3:00:22
..unfortunate,
but nonetheless proud community...
3:00:26
..has found a braver,
more gallant young champion...
3:00:29
..than this Afro-American
who lies before us...
3:00:33
..unconquered still.
3:00:35
I say the word again as he would
want me to: Afro-American...
3:00:40
..the Afro-American Malcolm.
3:00:45
Malcolm had stopped
being negro years ago.
3:00:49
It had become too small,
too puny, too weak a word for him.
3:00:55
Malcolm was biggerthan that, Malcolm
had become an Afro-American...
3:01:01
..and he wanted so desperately
that we, that all his people...
3:01:06
..would become Afro-Americans too.
3:01:12
There are those who consider it their
duty as friends of negro people...
3:01:18
..to tell us to revile him,
to flee even from his memory...
3:01:25
..to save ourselves
by writing him out of our history.
3:01:30
And we will smile.
3:01:34
They will say he is of hate,
a fanatic, a racist...
3:01:37
..who can only bring evil
to the cause for which you struggle.
3:01:41
We will answer and say unto them...
3:01:44
'Did you evertalk
to brotherMalcolm?'
3:01:48
'Did you ever touch him
or have him smile at you?'
3:01:53
'Did you ever really listen to him?'
3:01:56
'Was he ever himself associated with
violence orany public disturbance?'