All of the Western nations have been caught in a lie, the lie of their pretended humanism. This means that their history has no moral justification, and that the West has no moral authority. "Vile as I am," states one of the characters in Dostoevsky's The Idiot, "I don't believe in the wagons that bring bread to humanity. For the wagons that bring bread to humanity, may coldly exclude a considerable part of humanity from enjoying what is brought."
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You cannot lynch me and keep me in ghettos without becoming something monstrous yourselves.
And furthermore, you give me a terrifying advantage.
You never had to look at me.
I had to look at you.
I know more about you than you know about me.
Not everything that is faced can be changed,
but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
History is not the past.
It is the present.
We carry our history with us.
We are our history.
If we pretend otherwise, we literally are criminals.
I attest to this.
The world is not white.
It never was white,cannot be white.
White is a metaphor for power, and that is simply a way of
describing Chase Manhattan Bank.
I can't be a pessimist,because I'm alive.
To be a pessimist means you have agreed that human life
is an academic matter,so I'm forced to be an optimist.
I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive.
But...the Negro in this country...the future of the Negro in this country...
is precisely as bright or as dark as the future of the country.
It is entirely up to the American people and not representatives.
It is entirely up to the American people whether or not they are going
to face and deal with and embrace the stranger they have maligned so long.What white people have to do is try to find out,in their own hearts,
why it was necessary to have a "nigger"in the first place, because I'm not a nigger,
I'm a man.
But if you think I'm a nigger,it means you need him.
The question you've got to ask yourself,the white population of this
country has got to ask itself,
North and South,because it's one country,and for the Negro,there is no difference between the North and the South...
it's just a difference in the way they castrate you,
but the fact of the castration is the American fact.
If I'm not the nigger here and you invented him,you the white people
invented him,then you've got to find out why.
And the future of the country depends on that,whether or not it's able
to ask that question.