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So I know were're tired. I know you're tired. I'm not fussing with you. I want to get make these announcements here. I'm not fussing with you, anything like that. I'm just trying to impress upon you the seriousness of the situation. Because if we don't get to vote here in Dallas County, after all of what the government has done, after all of what our children have done, then maybe we don't need it. And if we don't get it here then you can forget about your brothers and sisters in Wilcox County, Lawrence County, Marengo, Hale, Sumter, Green and all over Mississippi. And we have a chance in the 1964 election and in the next city election to get rid of Jim Crock and get rid of all the rest of these segregationists. And we can get a voting referee in here if we go down in large enough numbers. We can force them to open up those books more than two days a month. If there are five hundred people down there they know, we know they can't take five hundred people. We know that. But they're not going to put you in jail on registration day, so throw that thought out of your mind. But if we have five hundred people down there then that shows to the world, that shows to the government that the Negro in Selma wants to register. So there will force and open up those roles and put on more registrars. Now, that's up to us. The choice is up to you, it's up to us. And that's why we try and organize. And those of you that got those assignments, make those calls. Now the children all day today went to these vast projects, telling people about the meeting and about registering. All day. Negro children did that. Now if they can do that we can go to our churches in the morning. I'm sure that every church in Selma is represented here. And we go there, we tell that woman that gets up to make the announcements, to make the announcement about coming down. Now if we don't have guts enough to go in a Negro church, a church that where we belong, and tell the pastor, "I want you to make an announcement about Freedom Day, register to vote" then we're not ready to vote. We still got too much fear in us. So we all ought to be in church tomorrow so we can make these announcements.