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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}: We must use all of our talents. Everything that we have to destroy the system. [[Pause]] We said we want freedom and we said we want it now.

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We are saying that we cannot be patient, for we are tired of people saying be patient and wait. How long do you want us to wait?

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[applause]

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The president of the United States stand up and talk about free election in Cuba, free election in the Dominican Republic, but we must say we want free election in Mississippi.

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[applause]

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We want free election here! And we have been saying one man, one folk. There are hundreds and thousands of people here in Mississippi want the right to vote.

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{Speaker 2} {Unknown Speaker}: That's right!

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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}: We want the right to vote! We want the right to participate in an election to elect our own officials. All of us, during the last two or three days, some of us have who been working down in the Delta,

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in Beulah, in Rosedale, [[?]], and around Greenville. Caught a glimpse of this warmth, this desire for freedom. And we see the longing and aspiration to hope for our people.

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An old lady said I'm too old to vote. [[pause]] She said I cannot read and I cannot write. I'm 84 years old, I have grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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I'm too old, but she said I would do anything for my people. And she signed that ballot. She marked Aaron Henry and Edwin King.

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[[applause]]

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How long? Tonight we must say to the nation and to this world, that the Black people in the state of Mississippi and all over the South land want to keep on walking and marching towards freedom.

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That we're going to use every mean at our hand, at our command, until we be free. And nothing in this world can stop us now. Not one thing.

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I know all of us are tired. Hundreds and thousands of our people are tired of being beaten. We are tired of being mistreated. We are tired of police dogs.

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We are tired of going to jail over and over again for simple, elementary constitutional rights. We are tired. And there come a time in the life of any oppressed people

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We [[have said?]] in a religious sense when the cup runneth over. When we said we have had it long enough and we're not going to take it anymore.

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[[applause]] I say our motto must be...