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that in Mississippi, in Alabama, in Southwest Georgia, throughout this nation,
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we gonna have it, and we gonna have it now. And it gonna be ours– are we gonna fight for it?
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We're not gonna let someone hand something down to us, but we gonna stand up and fight for our God-given rights. [[cheering, clapping]]
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We all said, we said it over and over again. We said it so clear in 1960 in a sit-in.
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And we said it during the Freedom Rides through the state of Mississippi that we believe in nonviolence,
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and we believe in a philosophy of love! That we believe that it is better to love than to hate.
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At the same time, we must warn this nation, and warn the state of Mississippi, that our people are growin' tired and they're growin' restless!
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And if they don't get their freedom now, if they don't get it by using a nonviolent means or method, then they will have to find some other method or means. [[cheering, clapping]]
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All of us, none of us, can really escape the fact that we are involved in this revolution, and it is a serious revolution!
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The fact that we are Black people, that we are oppressed, we cannot escape!
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The maids, the janitor, the schoolteacher, the minister, the doctors, the lawyer! All of us are involved in this revolution and we must stay in it!
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My friends, we must be willin', if–– if it be necessary, really, to turn Mississippi upside down!
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To set it right side up for the cause of freedom and justice! We must be willin' to do that! [[cheering, clapping]]
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We need–– we need more people in Mississippi like Bob Moses, more people that willin' to give their time and work in the state of Mississippi!
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We need more people like Yale University student, Stanford, and hundreds of other people
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that we cannot call their names tonight who're willin' to take a stand for the cause of justice and freedom.
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This campaign is a symbol of a great revolution that must be complete. We have a mandate to complete this revolution