America is a free nation. Why should America oppose Mr. Muhammad for teaching FREEDOM for her 20 million so-called Negroes? He is not asking for an “integrated society” which would only lead to the dreaded INTERMARRIAGE with America’s white sons and daughters ... he is demanding complete SEPARATION where we will have complete FREEDOM, JUSTICE, and EQUALITY in a land of our own. And, if God is with Mr. Muhammad today to SEPARATE us and put us in a land wherein we can form our own nation equal with other civilized nations ... would you want God to DESTROY your country like he did biblical Egypt ... for opposing HIS DIVINE PLAN? 6. MALCOLM X AT YALE _Speaking, as always, in behalf of “The Honorable Elijah Muhammad,” Malcolm X journeyed to Yale University in 1962 to debate with Herbert Wright, then National Youth Secretary of the NAACP._ _The first third of this Yale Speech is Malcolm’s attempt to put the Black Muslims’ doctrine in world perspective. One may dispute, as Herbert Wright did, the lessons Malcolm draws from current history, but this lecture shows once again how the Black Muslims are struggling to give their doctrine the advantages of learning and information. Malcolm’s point is that the world situation demands that the American Negro have a separate state and that even such threats as the Communist take-over in Cuba will not subside until that all-Negro state is brought into being._ _This talk has a particularly scorching indictment of middle-class Negroes. Several people who were present at the debate have told me that Herbert Wright became difficult at times, for Malcolm, and that Malcolm responded with an unusual amount of bile. This was one of a series of debates between Wright and Malcolm X, and the NAACP finally ordered a halt to the encounters._ _Remembering that the Black Muslims have a prohibition against voting, the reader will be particularly interested in Malcolm’s arguments as to why the majority of American Negroes do not vote. He sees this apathy at the polls as a rebellion against “integration-minded” Negro leadership. And this may be a commentary on why the Muslims have themselves decided to enter politics._ In behalf of my beloved leader and teacher, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and the many young Muslims who follow him, we wish to thank you for this opportunity to explain our position today in what we feel to be the only solution to the serious race problems confronting America and the entire troubled Western World. In this crucial hour in which we live today, it is essential that our minds constantly be kept open to reality. We have both races here in this Yale Law School Auditorium tonight. Let us not be emotional. Let us be governed and guided only by facts.