"Brothers and sisters, I'm here to tell you that I charge the White Man. I charge the white man with being the greatest murderer on Earth. I charge the White Man with being the greatest kidnapper on Earth. There is no place in this world that that man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he's gone, he's created havoc. Everywhere he's gone, he's created destruction. So I charge him. I charge him with being the greatest kidnapper on this Earth! I charge him with being the greatest murderer on this Earth! I charge him with being the greatest ROBBER and ENSLAVER on this Earth! I charge the White Man with being the greatest SWINE EATER on this earth! The greatest DRUNKARD on this earth! He can't deny the charges! You can't deny the charges! We're the living proof of those charges! You and I are the proof! You're not an American, you are the victim of America. You didn't have a choice coming over here. He didn't say, "Black man, black woman, come on over and help me build America". He said, "Nigger, get down in the bottom of that boat and I'm taking you over there to help me build America". Being born here does not make you an American. I am not an American, you are not an American. You are one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of America. You and I, we've never seen any democracy. We ain't seen no democracy on the- the cotton fields of Georgia, there wasn't no democracy down there. We didn't see any democracy on the streets of Harlem, or in the streets of Brooklyn, or in the streets of Detroit, or Chicago. Ain't no democracy down there. No, we've never seen democracy! All we've seen is hypocrisy! We don't see any American Dream. We've experienced only the American Nightmare!"
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