He told the students that 1965 would be “the longest and hottest and bloodiest year in the history of the race revolution.” He also read from a telegram that he said he had sent to George Lincoln Rockwell, saying that if Rockwell and his American Nazi Party continued their campaign of terror, they would be met with “maximum physical retaliation by those of us who are not handcuffed by a policy of nonviolence.” That was a change from 1961, when Malcolm and Rockwell had appeared together at a rally in Washington, united in their opposition to integration.

