Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are. Never let the man that you’re against form your opinions. This is the trick that’s played on everyone who’s oppressed. When you have a revolution in a country, the first thing you take over is the radio. Then you start telling the people that the war is over. So all of them surrender. They believe that thing right there. And once they take that over, they start telling you where you are and where they are and you fall right in line, it’s plain thought control.
The majority of the American people are aren’t segregationists. The majority of the American people aren’t imperialists. But the government is. The structure is, the power faction is. So how then do all the majority go along with it? Because those who sit in power over the television, over the radio and over the press are constantly telling those who are the masses how free they are, how this we are and how that we are. So a mistake is made on your part when you think that white people suffer the same as black people. Or, as many Jews will say, “Well, we’re a minority too.” or the Irish will say, “Well, we used to be a minority.” No one’s a minority like we are. They didn’t need civil rights legislation to solve any other minority problem. They didn’t need…it didn’t take a civil war to solve any other minority problem. It didn’t take Supreme Court decisions to solve any other minority problem, or legislation. It takes none of that other kind of action to solve the minority problems of these other people. The only real minority in America is the Afro-American. Now when white people who are oppressed and poor, supposedly, but the poorest white person can go where the richest black person can’t go. It isn’t only poverty in money that we’re talking about, poverty in spirit, poverty in freedom, poverty in equality, poverty in human dignity, this is the kind of poverty we’re suffering from. So that the richest Negro in this country is still poor. When it comes to freedom, he’s broke. When it comes to human dignity, he’s broke. This is the kind of poverty we’re talking about.
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a desperate activist tells Malcolm X that the situation is hopeless as there are too many powerful interests and too few to oppose them. Malcolm's response is as important today as it was then: "Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are." pic.twitter.com/zwQmCVauSn
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