0:00:00.402,0:00:02.076 (audience clapping) 0:00:02.080,0:00:04.048 [ASA PHILIP RANDOLPH] I have[br]the pleasure to present 0:00:04.048,0:00:09.954 to this great audience, young[br]John Lewis, National Chairman, 0:00:10.400,0:00:13.563 Student Nonviolent[br]Coordinating Committee. 0:00:13.563,0:00:15.275 Brother John Lewis. 0:00:15.275,0:00:30.560 (audience clapping) 0:00:30.560,0:00:33.236 [JOHN LEWIS] We march today[br]for jobs and freedom. 0:00:34.202,0:00:36.376 But, we have nothing[br]to be proud of. 0:00:37.003,0:00:40.451 For hundred and thousand[br]of our brothers are not here. 0:00:41.389,0:00:43.409 For they're receiving[br]starvation wages, 0:00:43.409,0:00:45.173 or no wages at all. 0:00:46.239,0:00:48.578 While we stand here there[br]are sharecroppers 0:00:48.900,0:00:52.004 in the Delta of Mississippi,[br]who are out in the field 0:00:52.004,0:00:56.276 working for less than $3[br]a day, 12 hours a day. 0:00:56.960,0:01:00.001 While we stand here, there[br]are students in jail 0:01:00.001,0:01:01.392 on trumped-up charges. 0:01:01.840,0:01:04.904 Our brother James Farmer,[br]along with many others, 0:01:05.280,0:01:06.903 is also in jail. 0:01:07.520,0:01:10.804 We come here today[br]with a great sense of misgiving. 0:01:12.210,0:01:14.480 It is true that we support[br]the administration's 0:01:14.480,0:01:15.475 civil rights bill. 0:01:15.980,0:01:18.560 We support it[br]with great reservation, however. 0:01:19.079,0:01:23.266 Unless Title III is put in this[br]bill, there's nothing to protect 0:01:23.281,0:01:25.757 the young children,[br]and old women 0:01:25.757,0:01:29.744 who must face police dogs[br]and fire hoses in the South 0:01:29.744,0:01:31.862 while they engage[br]in peaceful demonstrations. 0:01:31.862,0:01:37.082 (audience clapping) 0:01:37.082,0:01:40.409 In its present form,[br]this bill will not protect 0:01:40.409,0:01:43.718 the citizens of Danville,[br]Virginia, who must live 0:01:43.718,0:01:46.163 in constant fear[br]of a police state. 0:01:46.800,0:01:49.123 It will not protect[br]the hundreds and thousands 0:01:49.123,0:01:52.644 of people that have been[br]arrested on trumped charges. 0:01:53.477,0:01:56.545 What about the three young men,[br]SNCC field secretaries 0:01:56.560,0:01:59.605 in Americus, Georgia,[br]who faced the death penalty 0:01:59.649,0:02:01.798 for engaging[br]in peaceful protests? 0:02:02.648,0:02:05.114 As it stands now, the voting[br]section of this bill will not 0:02:05.114,0:02:06.564 help the thousands[br]of black people 0:02:06.564,0:02:07.992 who want to vote. 0:02:08.712,0:02:11.143 It will not help[br]the citizens of Mississippi, 0:02:11.440,0:02:15.103 of Alabama and Jordan,[br]who are qualified to vote, 0:02:15.103,0:02:17.290 but lack of sixth-grade[br]education. 0:02:18.000,0:02:19.618 'One man,[br]one vote,' 0:02:19.618,0:02:21.069 is the African cry. 0:02:21.069,0:02:22.426 It is ours too. 0:02:22.426,0:02:23.728 It must be ours! 0:02:23.765,0:02:29.760 (audience clapping) 0:02:29.760,0:02:31.820 We must have legislation[br]that will protect 0:02:31.820,0:02:35.107 the Mississippi Sharecropper,[br]who is put off of his farm 0:02:35.107,0:02:37.376 because he dares[br]to register to vote. 0:02:37.896,0:02:40.139 We need a bill that will provide[br]for the homeless 0:02:40.139,0:02:42.321 and starving people [br]of this nation. 0:02:42.841,0:02:44.718 We need a bill that will ensure[br]the equality 0:02:44.718,0:02:48.949 of a maid who earn $5 a week[br]in a home of a family whose 0:02:48.949,0:02:52.005 total income of $100,000 a year. 0:02:52.240,0:02:55.002 We must have a good FEPC bill. 0:02:55.002,0:03:00.960 (audience clapping) 0:03:00.960,0:03:05.320 My friends, let's not forget[br]that we are involved 0:03:05.320,0:03:07.751 in a serious social revolution. 0:03:08.246,0:03:10.120 By and large,[br]American politics 0:03:10.120,0:03:13.210 is dominated by politicians[br]who build their career 0:03:13.210,0:03:15.496 on moral compromise[br]and ally themselves 0:03:15.496,0:03:17.994 with open forms[br]of political, economic, 0:03:17.994,0:03:19.473 and social exploitation. 0:03:19.478,0:03:23.840 (audience clapping) 0:03:23.840,0:03:26.139 They are exceptions, of course. 0:03:26.139,0:03:27.595 We salute those. 0:03:28.000,0:03:31.204 But, what political leader can[br]stand up and say, 'My party 0:03:31.204,0:03:32.947 is a party of principles?' 0:03:33.392,0:03:37.162 For the party of Kennedy[br]is also the party of Eastland. 0:03:37.162,0:03:40.800 (audience clapping) 0:03:40.800,0:03:44.720 The party of Javits is[br]also the party of Goldwater. 0:03:45.040,0:03:46.563 Where is our party? 0:03:49.008,0:03:52.131 Where is the political party[br]that will make it unnecessary 0:03:52.131,0:03:53.698 to march on Washington? 0:03:54.115,0:03:56.080 Where is the political party[br]that will make it unnecessary 0:03:56.080,0:03:58.859 to march in the streets[br]of Birmingham? 0:03:59.778,0:04:01.791 Where is the political party[br]that will protect 0:04:01.791,0:04:04.000 the citizens[br]of Albany, Georgia? 0:04:04.236,0:04:06.527 Do you know that[br]in Albany, Georgia, 0:04:06.960,0:04:08.914 nine of our leaders[br]have been indicted, 0:04:09.200,0:04:12.229 not by the Dixiecrats,[br]but by the federal government 0:04:12.229,0:04:13.760 for peaceful protest? 0:04:14.087,0:04:17.440 What did the federal government[br]do when Albany's deputy sheriff 0:04:17.760,0:04:20.673 beat attorney C.B. King[br]and left him half-dead? 0:04:21.017,0:04:22.532 What did [br]the federal government do 0:04:22.532,0:04:25.270 when local police official[br]kicked and assaulted 0:04:25.270,0:04:28.859 a pregnant wife of Slater King,[br]and she lost her baby? 0:04:29.520,0:04:32.168 To those who have said,[br]'Be patient and wait,' 0:04:32.800,0:04:35.200 we have long said [br]that we cannot be patient. 0:04:35.360,0:04:38.000 We do not want our[br]freedom gradually, 0:04:38.000,0:04:39.705 but we want to be free now! 0:04:39.705,0:04:51.520 (audience clapping) 0:04:51.520,0:04:52.773 We are tired. 0:04:53.579,0:04:55.936 we are tired[br]of being beaten by policemen. 0:04:56.324,0:04:58.728 We are tired of seeing our[br]people locked up in jail over 0:04:58.728,0:04:59.680 and over again. 0:04:59.680,0:05:01.599 And then you[br]holler,"Be patient". 0:05:01.738,0:05:03.765 How long can we be patient? 0:05:04.240,0:05:06.939 We want our freedom[br]and we want it now. 0:05:06.939,0:05:13.661 (audience clapping) 0:05:13.661,0:05:15.395 We do not want to go to jail. 0:05:17.093,0:05:20.261 But we will go to jail[br]if this is a prize we must pay 0:05:20.261,0:05:21.161 for love, 0:05:21.360,0:05:23.108 brotherhood, and true peace. 0:05:24.258,0:05:27.749 I appeal to all of you[br]to get in this great revolution 0:05:27.760,0:05:29.396 that is sweeping this nation. 0:05:29.760,0:05:33.518 Get in and stay in the streets[br]of every city, every village, 0:05:33.518,0:05:36.480 and hamlet of this nation[br]until true freedom comes, 0:05:36.560,0:05:40.082 until the revolution[br]of 1776 is complete. 0:05:40.400,0:05:44.211 We must get in this revolution[br]and complete the revolution. 0:05:44.718,0:05:48.160 For in the Delta in Mississippi,[br]in Southwest Georgia, 0:05:48.203,0:05:51.313 in the Black Belt of Alabama,[br]in Harlem, in Chicago, 0:05:51.313,0:05:54.400 Detroit, Philadelphia,[br]and all over this nation, 0:05:54.400,0:05:57.308 the black masses are on[br]the march for jobs and freedom. 0:05:57.308,0:06:05.058 (audience clapping) 0:06:05.058,0:06:07.305 They're talking[br]about slow down and stop. 0:06:08.240,0:06:09.604 We will not stop. 0:06:10.400,0:06:14.518 All of the forces of Eastland[br]Barnett, Wallace, and Thurmond 0:06:14.518,0:06:16.341 will not stop this revolution. 0:06:16.363,0:06:23.005 (audience clapping) 0:06:23.005,0:06:24.923 If we do not get meaningful[br]legislation 0:06:24.923,0:06:26.123 out of this Congress, 0:06:26.480,0:06:29.322 the time will come[br]when we will not confine 0:06:29.322,0:06:31.060 our marching to Washington. 0:06:31.507,0:06:34.457 We will march through the South:[br]through the streets of Jackson, 0:06:34.457,0:06:36.662 through the streets of Danville,[br]through the streets 0:06:36.662,0:06:39.192 of Cambridge, through[br]the street of Birmingham 0:06:39.192,0:06:46.072 (audience clapping) 0:06:46.072,0:06:50.069 But we will march with spirit[br]of love and with spirit 0:06:50.069,0:06:52.463 of dignity[br]that we have shown here today. 0:06:52.463,0:06:56.882 (audience clapping) 0:06:56.882,0:07:02.320 By the force of our demands our[br]determination, and our numbers, 0:07:02.507,0:07:06.729 we shall splinter the segregated[br]South into a thousand pieces, 0:07:07.280,0:07:09.159 and put them together[br]in the image of God 0:07:09.159,0:07:10.330 and democracy. 0:07:10.560,0:07:14.560 We must say, 'Wake up America![br]Wake up! For we cannot stop, 0:07:14.560,0:07:16.895 and we will not,[br]and cannot be patient. 0:07:18.478,0:07:28.170 (audience clapping)