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Transcription: [00:13:54]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Too long have the white men in Mississipi walked around and bragged that this is home of the brave, negro, and land of the free white men.

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[[laughter]] [[clapping]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We gonna change that.

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We gonna say the home of the brave and land of the free.

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Let's just hope we goin' to make it. And we gonna use everything here like he has used all these years.

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But this is our home. When they call us agitators you tell em' that anyone who wants freedom in Mississippi is an agitator.

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Whether you're white or black, from Jackson, Mississippi or from Hattiesburg, you're still agitator, you're an outsider.

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But we still are part of the United States whether you're blacks or not, and we're here to stay.

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And if he doesn't like what we're doing, then move over, cause we're moving in. Get what we should have had a hundred years ago, or longer.

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And we're not going to wait any longer. We're gonna pay the price, whatever it may be,

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because wh-- what they must know, is we were born to die, sooner or later.

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And what could a man give any more, than to be given-- willing to give his life, to save all of you.

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[[??]] gave his, President Kennedy gave his, and many more of us gonna give ours.

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So that someday, men like Wallace, men like Barnett, men like Stennis, and men like Long out of Louisiana,

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and the rest of all these racious and hatred-hearted people who preached it so dearly will be set aside,

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and men of decency and dignity will take over leadership, and make this the democracy which we have fought for for so long.

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If we brag about another country's, [[??]] they believe it or not, the type of thing that they are doing to destroy us.

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America is losing its prestige all over the world. No one seemed to care toward us anymore.

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No one wants to [[??]] after. Well they believe it or not its because the way you and I have been treated, right here is Mississippi.