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.
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We will answer and say unto them...
3:01:44
'Did you evertalk
to brotherMalcolm?'
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'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?'
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'If you did, you would know him.
And if you knew him...'
3:02:07
'..you would know why
we must honor him.'
3:02:10
Malcolm was our manhood...
3:02:13
..our living black manhood.
This was his meaning to his people.
3:02:18
And in honoring him,
we honorthe best in ourselves.
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However much we may differ with him
orwith each other about him...
3:02:29
..let his going from us serve
only to bring us together now.
3:02:34
Consigning these mortal remains
to earth, the common mother of all...
3:02:41
..securing the knowledge that what
we place in the ground is no more...
3:02:46
..a man, buta seed, which after
the winter of our discontent...
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..will come forth again to meet us...
3:02:54
..and we shall know him then
for what he was and is: a prince.