Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some of you think you've come to a circus to watch a dancing bear," said the moderator cynically. Perhaps some had, but Malcolm X was no dancing bear, no exotic specimen of a Near-Eastern religion, no man to be clinically observed. Flanked by three docile bodyguards Malcolm baffled his Leverett House audience with an oddly-paced blend of demagoguery and rationality, haughtiness and humor, sham history and acute analysis, utopian policies and realpolitik...
...Ehiah Muhammed's long-range policy that we should have our own home is right," Malcolm declared. "But it's a long range policy. For the short range we have to live here, and we must be in control of our own community...
James Q. Wilson, professor of government, one of the two panelists to comment on Malcolm's speech, described the failure of protest movements to achieve their goals by seeking power outside the two-party system...
Replying to the pessimism of both Kilson and Wilson. Malcolm said that "if professors and sociologists think things are hopeless, what thought do you think is going through the mind of one where oppressed? It's a wicked thought that I'm afraid to express," he added with a smile
From Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly On Prayer