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Like in the Resistance in the Nazi occupation, the problem was overcoming, the problem was getting to the point where you could
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say that you could make your decisions because you were no longer faced with the problem of whether you could overcome torture and death.
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Well, in these small towns down there you have to come to the point to know the limits within yourself,
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so that you can decide that you've overcome or can continually day by day overcome the problems of fear
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and make these decisions by yourself.
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And it's in a sense because we've been involved in making these decisions by ourselves in these lonely towns for the last two and a half years
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that we have, I think, gained the right to make the decision collectively as an organization vis-à-vis the country.
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That as just as we decided in these towns that this is the job that we had to do,
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and just as we decided individually that we had to overcome these fears about working,
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so as an organization now the problem and the time has come to decide collectively
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what it is and how we stand vis-à-vis the rest of the country and the other civil rights groups
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and to make that decision and stick to it.
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In that regard, we have probably two big problems to discuss, and I said this before.
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One problem is the question of free association
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and the question of the right of people to assemble and work and