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FREEDOMWAYS         FIRST QUARTER 1972 

weird thing about freedom. Once you take that first step toward freedom, all slaves have got to be free. So when the black people stood up and said "Freedom," so did the Chicanos, the Indians, the Orientals, the young and the women. And when the people outside of prison said there must be freedom, the brothers and sisters inside the prisons said there must be freedom. That's the strange, weird thing about freedom. Because that's all this whole evening has been about-FREEDOM!
There have been hundreds of thousands of people in the struggle for freedom, most of them just nameless faces in the crowd who cared enough about themselves and their brother man to stand up and fight for freedom. Some of them became internationally known. One of them was a man called King. And in a short period of time the man called King walked a long journey. He walked from Montgomery to Memphis, from mere manhood to ultimate martyrdom and from the depths of misery to the top of the mountain. Then it seems to me if that brother could go that distance in that short period of time, then you and I, black, brown, red, yellow and white-can join hands to take America on a journey, from madness to humanity, from ex- ploitation to equality, from racism to freedom, and from war to peace. Thank God King walked. I join you in that effort.

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