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{SPEAKER name="Sam Bailey"}
[[?]] is the issue of maintaining the Mississippi way of life.

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{SPEAKER name="Sam Bailey"}
Now I know that many of us through the years have thought about the Mississippi way of life and we've had dreams about it. We've had desires to do something about it. And we often have had these desires and these dreams delayed or postponed by some fate of luck that we never exactly got around to experiencing the dreams that we had.

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{SPEAKER name="Sam Bailey"}
And I think that Langston Hughes somehow captures the sentiment of many of us in the lyrics of his favorite dream poem when he says, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it fester like a sore––and then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or does it crust and sugar over––like a syrup sweet? May be it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

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{SPEAKER name="Sam Bailey"}
And because of the possibility of the dreams that we have had delayed for so many years exploding into an activity and into a situation of [[?]] is largely the main reason why we have become engaged in the freedom vote campaign.

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{SPEAKER name="Sam Bailey"}
To re-accentuate that there is hope, that there can be the truth, by following the course that has been laid out for us. By people who have observed the world as it is today