The Negro Was Taught To Speak The

I'm A Field Negro. The Masses Are The Field Negroes. When They See This Man's House On Fire, You Don't Hear These Little Negroes Talking About 'our Government Is In Trouble'. They Say, 'the Government Is In Trouble.'

Right Now, In Every Big City Ghetto, Tens Of Thousands Of Yesterday's And Today's School Dropouts Are Keeping Body And Soul Together By Some Form Of Hustling In The Same Way I Did.

Can You Accuse Me, If A Man Is Putting A Rope Around My Neck, Of Being Violent, When I Violently Struggle Against This Lyncher To Try And Keep Him From Putting A Rope Around My Innocent Neck? Why, You'd Be Insane To Cause Me - To Call Me Violent.

It Is A Time For Martyrs Now, And If I Am To Be One, It Will Be For The Cause Of Brotherhood. That's The Only Thing That Can Save This Country.

Growing Is The Result Of Learning.