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The point where SNCC is - is that it has to realize that it's reaching a point where it has to stand up and be ready to say to itself and to the country what it is that it wants and how it is that it's going about it and not back down when the irresponsible charges are made and then prepare to defend why it thinks that this is the way it has to go about.

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I'd like to say just one other thing in another dimension completely because we're not only involved in some kind of political struggle, we're also involved in another more personal struggle.

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That is within ourselves we are fighting what Camus described as the micro which exists in each man.

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And there are many of us who as we talk and as we emphasize things in our meetings, emphasize this dimension of our struggle.

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And it's there. And there's a paper that's circulating around that Charlie Sharrod has written up which pinpoints some of the problems involved in this dimension.

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And I don't mean to cut it out.

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It's certainly that something that has to be faced all along.

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Certainly, it's something that we face every day out on the battlefield.

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Certainly George Greene, and MacArthur Cotton, and Jesse Harris, Frank Smith have to face by themselves the decision whether or not they're going to go into these small towns like Natchez and McComb and whether they're going to organize in these towns.

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And it's a decision they make among themselves, by themselves, and in a sense, nobody can make it for them because what's involved in that decision is the problem of overcoming.