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{SPEAKER name="Dick Gregory"}
Did we accept it because we wanted to do something about it, or did we accept it because we felt this is all we can do? We have everything to work with.

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It's a difficult thing when a man says make me some biscuits mama, and he didn't bring nothing home for you to make biscuits with.

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It's a heck of a thing, when he has every thing there and the biscuits aren't done, maybe he'll look elsewhere or maybe he'll give up completely.

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There's a funny thing that happened in 1963, and the sooner we wake up and realize it, the better off this whole world is going to be.

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Because for some reason God has put in your hands, the salvation of not just America, this thing is bigger than this, the whole world.

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And if you don't believe it, check the papers, check the records. [[inaudible]] and Kennedy never sit down and made a deal, for you people in the South to start rising up.

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The monks in Vietnam never start striking back for religious freedom, until we had the agreement of Birmingham.

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Peoples looking at you all over the world because they come over here, they see the situation and they gave you up.

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Gave you up and they couldn't understand it. Negro in America has the highest standard of living, the highest educational standard, highest medical care of any black man world over and most white.

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And we got backward countries