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[[SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"]]
And something symbolic, strange happened in this film, as it happens in life.
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Because the white man and the black man are really chained together by the wrist, and the more - if they try to pull at this chain, all they're getting is chafed wrists.
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And curiously, when they got the chain off, they'd realized that it was there anyway, and that they were under an obligation if they were decent men to help and to recognize what brother means to brother.
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[[Guitar strumming]]
Now, I don't know - I don't know if one can put it in such a simple fashion, but then, all great ideas in the world have always been put in simple fashion.
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I've never heard long, involved words describing such a simple thing as freedom.
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We all know what a slave is, and we all know what a free man is, and there's no two definitions about it.
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There is no half freedoms around.
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There are no pointing to one student that happened to be let into a university and saying, "Oh, what do you want?," "He can go in that place," or "One guy once hated that restaurant in 1961 therefore it is not segregated anymore."
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There's no half freedom! It's either all, or not at all.
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I read the Bible a lot. We talked about - you remember the Reverend when he talked to you about Moses before.
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I know this story doesn't seem to be widely known, but sometimes very righteous white people who go to church every week,
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A nice clean white church where nobody who's not a pure blood is let in, and that includes me.
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And they seem to skip over that little bit in the Bible.
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Moses married an Ethiopian women, who was black, and his sister Marian berated him for it and the Lord struck her with leprosy.
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And He didn't remove the disease until-until she apologized for having said harsh words to her brother.
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And it's that same Moses who led the people out of the wilderness, and if he can do it, we can do it.
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[[Guitar and clapping]]
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Because I am a descendant of Moses and you're a descendant of his wife.
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[[Guitar strumming]]
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I'd like to uh
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