We Are Here To Work Side-by-side With

All Of This Is On Account We Want To Register [sic], To Become First-class Citizens, And If The Freedom Democratic Party Is Not Seated Now, I Question America. Is This America, The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave Where We Have To Sleep With Our Telephones Off The Hooks Because Our Lives Be Threatened Daily Because We Want To Live As Decent Human Beings - In America?

This Problem Is Not Only In Mississippi. During The Time I Was In The Convention In Atlantic City, I Didn't Get Any Threats From Mississippi. The Threatening Letters Were From Philadelphia, Chicago And Other Big Cities.

I Used To Question This For Years - What Did Our Kids Actually Fight For? They Would Go In The Service And Go Through All Of That And Come Right Out To Be Drowned In A River In Mississippi. I Found This Hypocrisy Is All Over America.

Whether You Have A Ph.d., Or No D, We're In This Bag Together. And Whether You're From Morehouse Or Nohouse, We're Still In This Bag Together. Not To Fight To Try To Liberate Ourselves From The Men - This Is Another Trick To Get Us Fighting Among Ourselves - But To Work Together With The Black Man, Then We Will Have A Better Chance To Just Act As Human Beings, And To Be Treated As Human Beings In Our Sick Society.

Not Only Have We Paid The Price With Our Names In Ink, But We Have Also Paid In Blood. And They Can't Say That Black People Can't Be Intelligent, Because Going Back To Africa, In Guinea, There Are Almost 4 Million People There And What He, President [sekou] Toure, Is Doing To Educate The People: As Long As The French People Had It They Weren't Doing A Thing That Is Being Done Now.