If I were to collect the combined wages of everyone in this Yale University Law School auditorium tonight for just one week, I would have plenty of money. If I could work all of you for nothing for just one year I would be extremely rich. Well, what about the millions of black people who worked here in America as your slaves for over 300 years without one payday? What happened to their wages? Who collected the profits, or amassed the fortunes received from their free labor? Facing these unpleasant facts, surely you can easily see now how America became so rich so fast. How will 20 million so-called Negroes today receive a “just compensation”? We have hundreds of years’ “back pay” that is long overdue, and must be paid sooner or later ... or is there to be no such things as JUSTICE for your faithful ex-slaves? The American government has appropriated billions of dollars to pay the Indians for lands taken from their foreparents by your foreparents. Again I say, my friends, let us reason together: surely you will agree that God is more just than your government ... yet your government has felt morally and legally obligated to pay billions of dollars to the Indians for the crime committed against them. What about the 20 million so-called Negroes! If the Indians must be paid for land taken from them, what about the free labor and lives of our foreparents that were taken from us for over 300 years? If the white politicians have agreed that the Indians should be paid for their lands ... what price or payment will the GOD OF JUSTICE demand for 20 million black people who were robbed of our labor, lives, identity, culture, history ... and even our human dignity? What will God’s price be? What will God’s solution be? Can America pay God’s price? And, if not, what will be the alternative? The handwriting is on the wall for America. As America faces crisis after crisis ... as America sees dangerous troubles mounting on all sides ... and as America stares with stubborn blindness, refusing to read the handwriting on the wall ... since her “experts” have shown they are unable to read its meaning, will America now accept an ambassador from God, a Divine Messenger, a Warner, to read the handwriting for her and tell her what solution she must accept...? Or, will America blindly reject God’s Messenger, and in so doing bring on her own Divine Destruction? I trust you will weigh well these words. A SUMMING-UP: LOUIS LOMAX INTERVIEWS MALCOLM X