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You carefully outline the four steps to your non-violent approach of ending segregation: determining the existence of injustice, attempting to negotiate, purifying and preparing individually and as a group, and finally engaging in peaceful direct action. The case you make for these points is strong, and the evidence in Birmingham supporting this pattern of behavior on your part, and on the part of our enemies as well, is equally apparent. I do not understand, then, why you insist that the same methodologies that have proven ineffective in the past will somehow work with continued pressure. Your insistence on this non-violent approach is no better than the constant cries of "Wait!" which you claim -- correctly -- echo so painfully in the ears of the so-called Negro men, women, and children who have yearned for freedom for centuries.

Another rising leader of the so-called Negro, Malcolm X, has insisted that "Truth will open our eyes and enable us to see the white wolf as he really is." Your letter touches on many of the points that reveal this truth, especially when you note that the white moderate is actually one of the most dangerous forces at work in the country today. Theirs is a race of oppression that will not ever remove their jaws from about our throats unless they are thrown away at knife point.

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You have noted the refusal of the white race to grant us the freedoms, rights, and responsibilities that their own laws demanded be granted to us. Such behavior can only be considered evil and wolf-like. Evil and wolf-like creatures, again as you yourself note, are unlikely to change if they are not forced to. There is no force in your demonstrations, your sit-ins, and your speeches. Though your words have a great power of people's minds, they have no effect on the wolves bodies, and the ranks of that race still line up against us with their teeth bared.

I admire your constancy and the directness of your argument. I am disappointed only in that you have been unable to cast the last of the scales from off of your eyes to see the full truth, the naked and undressed truth. Though your eyes have penetrated deeper into the history and entrenchment of the situation than many, they have not yet plumbed the depths of racial oppression and degradation in this country. When they do, you will find in me a stalwart ally in the revolution that must necessarily come if the so-called Negro is ever to be free on this soil......

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