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Transcription: [00:22:23]
For all of us, this movement must become a people's movement, and not a leader's movement.'applause'
[00:22:46]
We must create, over and over again sources and pockets of power who often saw throughout the nation, where the masses can say, and not a leader, "I want to be free" , "I wan't a job", "I want food". The people all say this. I think we must give serious consideration to some other suggestion or Rustin, lonely lion of political and economic...
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[00:23:21]
For all of this must become, I think, in our action. We must somehow or someway create both a political and economic base, in order to move, so our voices can be heard. But if the movement is to continue to be one of nonviolent discipline, and I know within SNCC and within organizations, some other organizations, serious consideration about nonviolence, people are talkin' about it, we are sending masses of restless and they are desperate.
[00:23:57]
But I had a feeling that if this movement that we are involved in is to continue, to be one of nonviolent discipline, then we must become radical enough to present a positive program of action that will meet the denee- the needs, the desires, the aspiration of an oppressed people. 'applause'
[00:24:24]
For so long, we have been playing movement, playing a revolution...