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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
We're on a roll! I know a lot of you and I don't know a lot of you. But I can tell you about [[Black??]], about Hollis, about McArthur [[Cartin??]].
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
And let's not forget also that just two years ago, I don't think anybody would have have ever said that in 1963, we will be having Dr. Aaron Henry running for governor.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
And that we would have a victorious celebration in Jackson, Mississippi. Nobody would have thought of that, so we have a right to be happy.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
We have a right to be joyous. But again, let us remember, let us remember Medgar Evars seven feet under the ground, his widow and his kids now alive, let us recall George Lee, [[?]], Mack Parker, Emmett Till, Jimmy Travis.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
And so therefore we have to re-dedicate ourselves, re-dedicate our ourselves, not only to the memory of those people but to the sharecroppers up in the Delta making two dollars a day.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
We must dedicate ourselves to the fact that we want to be free! And freedom means work! And let's not forget it. We can get romantic if we want to and sing these songs!
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
But when they call you to cook food for the workers, are you gon' be there? When they call you to ring the telephone, will you answer the call?
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
When they call you to give a dollar, will you respond and stop buying a pint of whiskey on a Saturday night and give up that two dollars?
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
Will you be there? That's the way it is. See, I know my people, I know what hap- what's happening.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
Will you be there when they call for workers are going from block to block in Jackson, Mississippi, for this campaign is just the beginning!
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
And as a poet said, it will be like sounding brass and tinkling cymbals if the Negros right here tonight don't make a pledge to get out and work doubly hard.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
And will you be there when it be necessary for us to go to Washington because we can try to evade it if we want!
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
But some of the crux of our problem lies right in Washington, what Eastland sitting up in the Senate [[?]], talking about they represent Mississippi.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
They don't represent anything but their corrupt political interest. And don't let anybody be afraid of it. Eastland doesn't represent us.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
And we got to go to the president of the United States and say Mr. President, you have been appointing these racist judges down here. You appointed Judge [[Cox??]]. And you have appointed Judge Elliot in Georgia and a whole lot of rest of 'em.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
And if we are going to hol' you politically accountable, and that maybe in 1964 we'll cast another freedom ballot, only instead of Henry for governor, if you don't change your tune it'll be Henry for president! That's right!
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[[Cheering and applause]]
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
It's a whole lotta other things that we have to do, and I think that we should say to the Yale students and the Stanford students who have come down, we are extremely appreciative of what has happened.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
But you too have a responsibility, for this is no plaything! We are dedicating our lives so that America will be better.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
And you have a responsibility to go back to your hometowns and to work as hard as we are going to work here.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
You have a responsibility to get to your Congressmen and your Senators and to all of your friends and your parents and tell 'em. This is not just the Negros' fight, this is our fight.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
That as long as one man suffers, all of us suffer. And go back with a new spirit! And I know that those of you that came down are gonna throw away to Saturday night what they call, uh, they got these fraternity rallies and all that and beer parties.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
Instead of having beer parties, start having some freedom parties and start sending some money on down here in the Mississippi 'cause we need it.
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[[Applause]]
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
And all you lawyers [[?]] from the American Civil Liberties Union is over there, land ho. [[?]] Kiefer [[?]] from down in Detroit, you have a responsibility to go back and translate what you have seen here.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
For we are not playing, we're dead serious about it. And as Sam Block said, we will never turn back!
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
And you can tell every white man, every segregationist, every Klu Klux Klanner, that if they killed everybody in this house, there would be more Negros to rise up because the little children are singing now.
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
Freedom, freedom, freedom over me! And before I'll be a slave I'll be buried in my grave. And as I leave the platform I'd like for Hollis Watkins to sing, "Freedom, freedom, all freedom over me".
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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
Come on, Hollis.
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