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{SPEAKER name="Dick Gregory"}
-grow up under the same system I had to grow up under,

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And I was fortunate enough to break through my hand, but at the expense of how many other Negroes, had to fall by the wayside?

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That one would be able to break through,

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I would rather die trying to set my people free, than be alive, half free, half enslaved.  

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Here's a man here who flew in town last week, that he, like myself, had never heard of Selma, Alabama,

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that's what you do when that thing is workin', you hear about things and you feel things all over the world that you never heard about before,

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That is the beauty and right,

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That is the beauty and right,

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If 20 negroes took pistols and got in a crap game and killed ten thousand people in this town, I still wouldn't have known what Selma, Alabama is.

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It's the funny thing about right, funny thing.

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Here's a man flew in last week, was gonna get married Saturday, said "James I have no guarantee that you'll be back in time for your wedding."

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He said, "Okay."

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He was here. Thursday it rained, Thursday, rained real hard that Thursday, I wasn't here but I know what goes on in Selma. I said alright we'll pull you outta there and let you get on the bus and go into Montgomery catch a plane, and go on back to Detroit. He says "Well I'll stay." I say "Well we don't know how long it's gon' rain." He got off that mornin' and got-