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THREE CHALLENGES TO LABOR     JACKSON

is not built upon how many voters he delivers.  It's built upon how many can't vote.  We find ourselves seven million unregistered Black voters.  But I want you to know, and the whole world to know, every time our movement has made progress, it has been because we have kept pressure and a good clean relationship even with our peers.   You will show me an Abraham Lincoln that did something for Black folk, I'll show you a Frederick Douglass helping to write his speeches.  You'll show me a Franklin D. Roosevelt, making progress with Black people, I'll show an A. Philip Randolph, threatening to march on Washington.  You'll show me a John Kennedy, coming out a decent man, I'll show you a Martin Luther King, the prophet  putting the pressure on him to make him do it.  It is our job.  Our differences with Senator McGovern differed from out conflict with Nixon.  There are such things as inhouse conflicts, where you have programmatic and campaign conflict and family conflict.  And then there are things you call philosophical conflicts.  Now I have some philosophical conflicts with Nixon.  There's a deep conflict.  A man that wants to come out of Vietnam by going North and threatening a Third World War, that's a philosophical conflict.  A man who wants to resolve the economic crisis by freezing wages and releasing profits, that is a philosophical conflict.  A man who wants to dodge the race issue by using a bus to deceive poor white folks, that's a philosophical conflict.  The issue is not a bus; the issue us Us.

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