Chapter 11 Reading Quiz Writing Response “ The white man can lynch and burn and bomb and beat Negroes- that’s all right: ‘Have patience’…’The customs are entrenched’…’Things are getting better’…Well, I believe it’s a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself…
I tried in every speech I made to clarify my new position regarding white people- I don’t speak against the sincere, well-meaning, good white people… I am speaking against and my fight is against the white racists. I firmly believe that Negroes have the right to fight against these racists, by any means that are necessary…
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man’s problem—just to avoid violence. I don’t go for non-violence if it also means a delayed solution. To me a delayed solution is a non-solution.” – Malcolm X, from the Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)

Identify a constitutional provision that supports Malcolm X’s insistence on human rights for black people.

Identify differences between Malcolm X’s recommended citizen-state interactions and the citizen-state interactions Dr. King describes in “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”