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Mr. Moderator, Brother Lomax, brothers and sisters, friends and enemies:

I just can’t believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don’t want to leave

anybody out. The question tonight, as I understand it, is «The Negro Revolt,

and Where Do We Go From Here?» or What Next?" In my little humble way of

understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet

If we don’t do something real soon, I think you’ll have to agree that we’re

going to be forced either to use the ballot or the bullet. It’s one or the

other in 1964. It isn’t that time is running out -- time has run out!

Don’t let anybody tell you anything about the odds are against you.

If they draft you, they send you to Korea and make you face 800 million

Chinese. If you can be brave over there, you can be brave right here.

These odds aren’t as great as those odds. And if you fight here,

you will at least know what you’re fighting for

Which means segregation is against the law. Which means a segregationist is

breaking the law. A segregationist is a criminal. You can’t label him as

anything other than that. And when you demonstrate against segregation,

the law is on your side. The Supreme Court is on your side

Let the world know how bloody his hands are. Let the world know the hypocrisy

that’s practiced over here. Let it be the ballot or the bullet. Let him know

that it must be the ballot or the bullet

No, if you never see me another time in your life, if I die in the morning,

I’ll die saying one thing: the ballot or the bullet, the ballot or the bullet

If a Negro in 1964 has to sit around and wait for some cracker senator to

filibuster when it comes to the rights of black people, why, you and I should

hang our heads in shame. You talk about a march on Washington in 1963,

you haven’t seen anything. There’s some more going down in '64

And this time they’re not going like they went last year. They’re not going

singing ''We Shall Overcome." They’re not going with white friends.

They’re not going with placards already painted for them. They’re not going

with round-trip tickets. They’re going with one way tickets. And if they don’t

want that non-nonviolent army going down there, tell them to bring the

filibuster to a halt

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