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It's also important to understand that it's not a lunatic move. It's not a move by aliens,
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it's something that after two and a half years of hard struggle, we finally become convinced
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that nothing will change in the Deep South unless the federal government does move in just such a fashion.
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Now he goes on finally to say that, the cards are on the table for the '64 election,
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that the Negroes in effect have the power of wrecking or altering the nature of the two-party system in this country.
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And what he says is in effect that that's bad and the problem is that we believe that that's good.
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That is what we believe is that the two-party system as it functions now in this country doesn't work,
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because that's exactly why we're in the difficulty we're in now,
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and that it is a national crisis and the crisis right now is focused on Congress.
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It can equally well be focused on the administration.
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The problem is that, and we began to sense this just before Kennedy's assassination, the problem is
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that, any political administration in this country in order to bring about the real changes that need to be bring about - need to be brought about -
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must in effect put itself out of office, because in order to bring about these changes, in order to lay the ground for them,
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they have to alienate a considerable number of their support and their constituency, and no administration is ready to do this.
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So that what we are pushing for is just such a change