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He's a terrific husband.

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That's beautiful.

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He put down the Mississippi Freedom delegation back in 64.

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He was instrumental in putting that down so that they weren't seated.

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I think most of Yuma Humphrey's liberal stands have been made because they were politically useful at the time,

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not out of any liberal conviction that he had.

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His stand in 48 for the Civil Rights Plan was politically very useful for him.

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It was not out of any great conviction.

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In the political, Humphrey demonstrated in West Virginia in 64 that he can't get votes.

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He ran against Kennedy. He was defeated resoundingly.

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If they want to win this election, I think all Republicans and the Democrats have a death wish.

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Spiro Agnew on one hand and Hubert Humphrey on the other hand.

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Sort of a mass death wish.

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I think both parties are actually seeking to lose.

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One party going by default, if anything.

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McCarthy demonstrated in the primaries that he could draw votes.

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He beat the administration resoundingly in almost every primary.

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Yet he's being ignored. I wouldn't say ignored, but he's being passed over here.

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He doesn't cooperate with the big city bosses.

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A McCarthy nomination would definitely change the structure of American Democratic politics.

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In other words, if McCarthy were with the President, he'd have to work with him.

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This wouldn't go down at our level in Chicago of politics.

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I think if McCarthy or McGovern were President, it'd be hard for a big city boss of one single city to control a convention as Daley is obviously controlling this one.

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What about this Ted Kennedy swaddle? Have you heard about that?

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Yes, well, in a practical matter, I think Kennedy would be a fool to take it now.

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Kennedy is 36. I think any Democrat who runs now is going to have a hard time being elected.

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And if Kennedy is defeated at 36, he might be washed up later on.

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While if he waits and there are four years of turbulence, the country might be ready to take him and cooperate with Ted Kennedy.

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So I think he'd be a fool to take it now, and I think he knows it.

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The country will survive four more years.

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Whoever wins in November will be impeached before the four years are over.

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Who do you think will impeach him?

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The Congress is controlling this as much as the presidency at this point.

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The question is, will we have a convention in four years?

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Will there be enough of this country left to have a convention?

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Or will the political system deteriorate so badly that there won't be a convention?

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We won't need one because the totalitarian forces of this country are taking over to the extent.

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Do you think that's because it's not too sensitive to the real needs of the people?

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I think the primaries demonstrated that.

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I think the primaries and subsequent goings on here at the convention, at least Republicans, except for Nixon.

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I don't think Nixon represented the true views of the Republicans, even.

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I think Rockefeller had more support.

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Yet at least Nixon did win the primaries.

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Humphrey didn't win any primaries, and he's far and away.

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Today I think Humphrey will be in. I think Daley's going to declare for him.

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I think you're wrong. I think the country's in a conservative swing.

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And that these people that are being elected are what the majority of the people want.

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It's too bad for us, but I think that's what's happening.

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I think it's showing the nature of American democracy that none of the major candidates are really going to be able to go to the people.

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They're going to have to be protected by troops and national guardsmen, and none of them can go out among his constituents and talk to them.

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In Cuba, Castro is able to walk through the streets of Havana with no protection whatsoever, without being afraid.

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In America, this bastion of liberal democracy, none of its major leaders can walk around without being protected from his own people.

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We had delegates last night in that hotel. The people were supposed to be representing us.

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And there were policemen lined up so that we could not get to them.

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Four or five of them came down. Most of them stayed up in their hotel windows.

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If I can't even talk to them, I don't know.

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How do you get to speak to one of these guys? How do you get to talk to a guy like Johnson or a guy like Humphrey?

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How do you get to communicate with him? Can you write him a letter? Will he answer you?

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Will he acknowledge your feelings? Will he let you discuss the situation with him?

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Will he allow for any kind of contact with people? No. He just does whatever he wants to do.

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And his concern is only with his political machinery and his political power.

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He has no concern, whatever, for student thought, which is supposed to be the revolutionary thought in the country.

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It's supposed to be the thought that moves the country, your future leaders and all this jazz.

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And it just isn't true. It just doesn't work.

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Do you feel threatened by this group here, personally?

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No, I don't.

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Do you feel that we're a danger to either you or to the surrounding lovely park here?

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These are the people.

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Well, I guess you were kind of hurting the park.

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But no, I don't feel threatened.

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Would you feel less threatened by us than by our magnificent police force in this town?

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Oh, well, no.

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As a newsman, and obviously aware of what's been taking place in the city with the police and the newsmen,

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who would you feel to be the more dangerous group to you personally as a representative of the free press?

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From what you've seen and what you've read, what you've heard.

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I do think Daly is overreacting to the Yippee threat.

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It's known that Daly does take a bath every day.

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And he's denied the Yippee's access to the Conrad Hilton showers in order to prove his point.

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I think if Daly would open the Conrad Hilton up for showers, many of this group would balance her take them.

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He lied to fit these thick showers.

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The point that I'm trying to make is that I think Daly overreacted.

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I'm from Chicago.

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And of course I knew about this meeting here, this convergence of dissident groups.

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And I didn't fear them.

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I'm a young person.

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I am aware of the sentiment of my generation.

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And I'm not afraid of them.

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I don't think they would necessarily cause any trouble unless confronted.

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I think it would be foolish for unarmed young people to go against national guardsmen on one hand

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or policemen with billy clubs.

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And a billy club in the hands of a Chicago policeman is as dangerous as a rifle.

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I have the experience of the Chicago Police Department.

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You can't see I'm well groomed I suppose in regard to this bunch.

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But still I've been stopped and searched for no reason.

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And I've gone down to the, this is before the convention or anything,

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I've gone down to the police station and filed my complaints.

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In every case the police officers have lied, out and out lied.

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And the investigations have never borne fruit at all.

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As a matter of fact I know most of the chiefs here, most of the captains in the districts,

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especially the 18th district where they seem to go after us with Vandetta.

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One of the good things about this is that white America is beginning to see,

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you know, beginning to be treated by the police the way black America has always been.

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And white kids for the first time are realizing, you know, what black America is up against all the time.

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We have to face it for maybe only one week. These people have to live with it, you know, day in, day out.

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People are just beginning to wake up. Maybe the residents of Chicago are beginning to wake up

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when they see those troops out there and they see their policemen go berserk.

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A lot of residents were also hit by overzealous policemen.

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They're beginning to see what things are really like and the nature of the system, which happens to be very violent.

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I think that now the middle class white America, which is the bulk of our country,

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instead of being able to ignore the brutality of the police in this city and others against the black population,

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now it has to deal with their own children being clubbed and being gassed and being treated brutally by the police.

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In one way, perhaps, the police action against the young people has been our best demonstration

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because it brings to white middle class America the reality of police brutality in this country

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and the control of the police by men like Mayor Daley who will allow this, actually order it.

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These policemen act under orders. A policeman has no guts at all.

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He won't do anything unless he believes that his commanding officer and his hierarchy will support him.

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I know this for a fact. As a matter of fact, in one of my cases, I did get the captain of the 18th district,

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Captain Conrad, to admit that it was police policy to search all suspicious cars in his district,

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although this is unconstitutional. He said, we have to keep law and order without defining it.

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I answered that the law works both ways.

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What he says is true. I'm a resident of Chicago. I don't dress like a hippie. I don't look like one.

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I don't even really think like one.

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You're very straight.

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Yeah, I am. But the police in Chicago are autocratic.

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I don't know if it's true all across the country because I only live here. They are autocratic.

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They do capriciously search cars. They do capriciously arrest people.

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They are rude, intemperate, belligerent, and altogether fascist-like.

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There's really no other word. I think I'm about as middle class as people get.

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Nevertheless, I think that the middle class is just as aware of this as the hippies and the hippies

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and whatever other group one might mention.

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I should ask you all, do you see parallels now between what is taking place here and what took place in France just recently?

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I mean, we saw demonstrations on the street, but we saw the vote go to De Gaulle.

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I think there's a more distinct parallel between what's happening here and what happened in Germany in the 1930s.

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The only difference might be that there is a large, vocal, intelligent group, these people, who are making noises.

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And a lot of my kind of people, while they may not join, are listening, and our views are perhaps being modulated.

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Can I ask you, you middle class people, to support us a little more than you have been?

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We could use you out there, believe me.

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You can't very well expect, I don't think it's reasonable to expect it, we all come down here and sit with you all day long.

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Is it reasonable to expect 18, 19 and 20 year old kids to bear the burden of the guilt of this whole system?

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Which I think is what is happening.

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I think really you have a view of my generation, which isn't really that much different from yours, a view which is not correct.

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I think we're just as disgusted, just as upset, just as alienated, and just as frustrated.

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I think maybe our tactics are probably more passive, and perhaps even less effective, but at least they're more within the system.

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Then how come there are no colored people around that call them niggers?

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Well, I don't, and I don't think my friends do.

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Those friends of mine who do, I correct.

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I know a lot of people who do.

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I can't deny that.

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You can't deny there's racism in this country.

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No, racism exists. I think racism exists among blacks, and I think it exists among white liberals.

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I think I am to some extent a bigot.

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I try to overcome that.

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I try to recognize it as a flaw in myself.

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But I think maybe many of you recognize yourselves as bigots and therefore have sort of overcompensated.

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Now, whether that's an actual, a correct assessment, I couldn't be, I don't know, but I suspect that's true.

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I don't deny that bigotry exists.

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I do deny that white middle-class America, the people who dress in button-down shirts in the whole business,

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I do deny that they are unaware of it and that they are unwilling to make some, to make a legitimate effort to correct it.

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They're aware and they make some kind of legitimate effort.

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I don't think it's enough.

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And like this afternoon, there's going to be a whole group of people who are going to try and march in that amphitheater

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because they feel there is no other way to demonstrate their protest.

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A lot of those people, I think, are going to get bloody heads that it's very possible.

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We don't have a permit yet.

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At the last minute, they may grant us a permit.

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I was marching when you were in junior high school.

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Yeah, but right now, this march, the average age will be maybe 21, 22.

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All right, maybe you're too old to march, but I just, I see a lot of kids getting their heads broken open,

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and I don't see them, you know, you're aware of it and you give us some kind of support, but is it enough?

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I don't know.

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Those kids in the park last night, the night before, a lot of kids were really hurried.

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Mace, tear gas, you know, what are the decent citizens doing about it?

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I think Mayor Daley shouldn't have outlawed you from the park, but since he did,

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then there have to be other tactics, it seems to me, other tactics than direct physical confrontation.

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I may be wrong.

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It may be that ultimately you're proof correct, but at least that's my view.

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This confrontation does demonstrate something.

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It demonstrates the feeling of the police departments in America.

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I was in many foreign countries, in Copenhagen, the policemen ride bicycles.

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In England, they're unarmed and there's Speakers Corner in Hyde Park for descent.

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I think now, as I said before, that now that the police are busting the heads of the children of the white middle class Americans,

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that perhaps white middle class America will come to the realization that police brutality has existed

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and that America is more totalitarian than they thought.

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Before, this only happened in the ghetto, and America has always turned its back on the ghetto.

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Well, the young people were brought to the ghetto to the Conrad Hilton,

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and now America must see what the police do to our people, our own people, citizens.

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On the other hand, you may be provoking a political reaction which will destroy those things you're working for.

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It may be that a slower but more effective method of working within the established system

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would in the long run produce the results you desire, whereas your techniques may produce just the opposite.

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That's what I fear.

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Well, the political reaction I'm concerned with is a surfacing of latent views.

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Anyway, so why not provoke it? Let's get it out in the open.

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If you're racist, let's know. If you're racist, tell us. I'm a racist. I'm a bigot.

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If you're not, let's find our sides.

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We hear a lot of speeches today about polarization. Let's have the polarization. Let's find out where we stand.

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If a man is a fully liberal, if a man isn't really willing to accept equality with the black people, let him say so right now.

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We've seen a man named Hubert Horatio Humphrey be the champion of the black people in this country. Now we know that's untrue.

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The black people of this country would rather vote for John Wallace than anybody else in the world.

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So would I, sir.

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Because John Wallace let us know where we stand.

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That's what I'm saying.

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But Hubert Humphrey and the rest of these candidates do not let us know where we stand.

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Now we are not here to make hatred. We are love abiding peoples.

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Racists don't come between us. But what do become between us is giving a fair shake.

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That's how we are. It's a fair shake.

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Now as far as the burning, the average one of us don't want to burn.

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The average one of us don't want to burn. But that's the only way we can be seen or heard.

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As far as our recent riots in Chicago.

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So John Wallace, I mean Wallace knows what to do. And we for Wallace.

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You know, I just, I don't know.

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The highest people here are our residents of Chicago.

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And Wallace knows where we stand. And Hubert and all the rest of them guys, bullshit.

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Dick Gregory made a statement last night that if Mayor Daley were to take his word at shooting all looters,

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the first thing he would do would be to shoot half of his city council. And I think that's very true.

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And the police. My sister was a teacher in the ghetto. And she taught second grade.

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Her seven year olds returned to school after our recent riots saying that the violence always started out the same.

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A group would gather, windows broken, the police would go in, take what they want,

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and then allow the black people to go in one by one and help themselves.

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But the police were looting first. The police in Chicago are the best money can buy.

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Any resident in the city knows, because he probably bought them.

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I think that gentleman's views were representative of some of the feelings starting now.

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At least George Wallace is a racist and he admits it.

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Hey, you don't have to back his views.

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At least he's honest to the people. He tells you where he stands.

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I mean, we're in direct opposition to what he stands for.

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But at least he does stand for something. He doesn't hide it behind rhetoric and leave outs and stuff.

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I mean, we all hate what he stands for.

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Hey man, you better leave that cat where he is, man.

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You don't need him for no goddamn president. You must be insane or something.

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You want a national guard in your backyard and on every corner, man?

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Probably going to have many.

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Say man, Eldridge Cleveland, Dick Gregory are running for president, man.

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You can write in Dick Gregory just as easy as you can elect Wallace. You dig it?

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You can get Dick Gregory on a ballot just as easy as you can elect Wallace, man. Or anybody else.

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That's true. That's very knowledge-based.

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I do back Eldridge Cleveland.

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Okay, beautiful, man. And quit talking about fatheads like Wallace, man.

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That cat's the only people ever...

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You know what that...

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The only candidate that most of the people know about is...

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Wallace, man. That's the sickest cat.

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What he's saying is they never brought up in the news and they leave out Gregory because he's never brought up in the news.

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The news media is leaving out...

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Hey man, you know what? Look here, man. Do you think they want a black hat to hit this country, man?

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This country is run by a WASP, man.

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You dig it? Right Anglo-Saxon Protestant, Shaq. And they don't want no black people running it, man.

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They don't want a Roman Catholic to run it.

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You dig it? Yeah!

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You know...

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If you got a choice between a Humphrey and a Wallace, Wallace, you know where he stands.

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Humphrey one day says one thing, next day another. You never know what he's going to do. But he's just as racist.

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I'm for Eldridge Cleveland. And for president. That's it.

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Alright, fine. I'm for Eldridge also.

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I'm just trying to show that liberal you and Humphrey is...

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...are going to affect my life, are going to affect...

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Well, they're going to affect my life and they're going to affect my community, see.

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But they're not going to affect my life and my community in a positive way.

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You dig it?

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Now, in the lawmaking body, man...

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Obviously, I mean, it's racist, man. Because we don't...

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Black people, man, for the last hundred years we haven't even been fully represented in the lawmaking body, man.

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We haven't had a representative in Congress or legislation or whatever have you, man...

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...to, you know, let those people know where we're at, man.

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Because they don't want to hear that shit.

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They'll keep us smothered out, keep us behind the fence...

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...until we get ready to tear the fence down.

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You dig it? Until we get ready to come on the other side of the fence.

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And then...

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Well, what you're saying is true. But why do you continue to elect the people in the Chicago ghetto that daily assign?

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As long as daily keeps on going down to the ghetto jack and snatching bums out of hallways, man...

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...and giving them two bucks so that he can keep on being the mayor in this damn town, man.

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You can't stop it. You can't stop it.

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The cats, man, they'll cut off a ghetto mother's welfare check, man...

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...if she doesn't go and vote. What they say, vote.

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You dig it?

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They can't cut it off. For one thing, it's against the law. And for another...

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And for another...

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Okay, for another point...

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If you throw them out, they can't cut it off.

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If you vote them out, they can't cut it off. And that's the secret. You gotta vote them out.

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You can't talk about it.

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They don't control the machine if you don't vote for them.

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You're talking about voting. Daily talks about counting. Daily counts them the way he wants to.

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Right. Hey, man, don't you know daily got people on this voting list, man...

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...that have been dead for the past 20 years, man?

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But that stuff can be corrected. It's been corrected in other cities.

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This shit ain't gonna never be corrected, man, cause y'all don't know about it.

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Chicago isn't like any other city.

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Chicago isn't like any other city.

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That's because too many people have not been willing to make the effort that it takes to throw them out.

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It takes political effort. Marching in the street just makes people say, well, daily was right all along.

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I wouldn't go along.

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No, marching makes people aware of it.

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By public relations, we want to win them by reason.

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I mean, public relations isn't good enough.

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Political effort was tried with the McCarthy campaign, and it's pretty obvious it hasn't worked.

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I mean, you couldn't put in more political effort than was put into that McCarthy campaign, and it's gonna lose.

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So there's your political effort for you.

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Hey, you're working on a premise that this is a democracy.

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Expressways go right through the ghetto. They ignore the ghetto.

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Daily's been able to build expressways to bring the white middle-class people in from the suburbs...

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...go right through the ghetto without even seeing it.

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And build miles and concentration camps up and down Lake Street, man, and everywhere.

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A 13-story building, man, where little black kids, two and three thousand little black kids...

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...to a building with two broken-down elevators, man.

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Now what if something happens, man?

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How in the hell are three thousand little black kids gonna get down two broken elevators?

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You dig it?

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Yeah.

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You dig it? It's happening, man, and you gotta be aware of it.

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I think this is my demonstration, though, is good.

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Because otherwise, this city won't see the ghetto.

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Because daily's built fences around the ghetto.

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Have you taken the route to the convention?

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These delegates are going to the convention through the ghetto, through the black neighborhood...

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...and daily's built fences.

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But the only way you can vote daily about a social ballot...

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...either that or the alternative, which I can't accept, which is complete physical reservation.

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The people who are voting have to have the fences torn down.

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Can you see more political effort going into a campaign than went into the McCarthy campaign?

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And yet that lost.

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I would begin to guarantee that every time people decided they were gonna support a clean gene...

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...or a good candidate, that he was gonna win.

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All I say is that ultimately the only way that you can win...

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...you can't beat him in the streets, he has all the guns.

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You can't beat him...

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But we beat the man in the primaries.

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There was a 70%, 80% vote for peace in the primaries.

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And we're still getting a war candidate.

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That's pretty obvious, man.

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Working within the system, we tried it.

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It doesn't go.

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He being the establishment, not just daily, he has all the money, he has all the guns...

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...he has all the organization.

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The only way you can beat him is when you pull...

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He doesn't have us outnumbered.

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That's right.

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He doesn't have you outnumbered.

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The only way you can beat him is when you pull the curtain behind you.

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That's the only way you can beat him.

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If we don't have the news media, nothing we say gets out.

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We pull the curtain behind them and they fix the votes.

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We didn't get it until the police speed up on them.

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I was talking to National Guardsmen today, I talked to several.

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They don't want to be here.

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As a matter of fact, I'm relieved they're here.

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I think National Guardsmen with M1 rifles are safer than our police with billy clubs.

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I'm quite happy they're here instead of the police.

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I talked to them, they don't want to be here.

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They're young, they're like us.

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They don't want to shoot their own generation.

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They're under orders.

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I feel sorry for them, they're awful tired.

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But I don't know how effective a force a National Guard would be against their own people.

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A National Guard is a white group primarily.

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It's very difficult for black people to even get in the National Guard.

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So they might be effective against the black people, but I doubt they'd be effective against us if they'd want to be effective against us.

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We're their generation, we're the new generation.

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We have to win.

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We're going to outlive everybody else.

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When we do, there's going to be a lot of changes.

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When the cats give up their shoes, they lose.

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Because from there we take it.

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We're going to have it now.

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We're not going to wait until we're 50 years old to take power.

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If you want to work within the system now, you're going to have to wait four more years before you can elect another president.

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Four years is an awful long time to wait.

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Just sit back and say, well, I'm going to wait.

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I'm not going to do anything now.

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No system at all.

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No standing armies.

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No soldiers.

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A moneyless economy, man.

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You dig it?

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What do you propose then if you don't want any...

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Yes?

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What type of a new world?

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What type of a new world and where is it going to come from?

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Where is it going to come from?

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It's going to come out of the heart of mankind.

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Look at the little kids.

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It's NBC, aren't you?

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What network are you from?

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Free-lance here.

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Act in the very center of it, man, and have big things push out on the surface of this planet beneath it and expand it.

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That's kind of far off, man.

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The Bible is going to make it bigger.

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Look at what Jesus said, the man was created in the image of God.

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And okay, brother, defying God.

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Defying God?

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Well, I said God is the only golden, all-pervading, never-changing, ever-changing strata of all creation.

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Okay, and if God has that much power and man was made like God, just like God...

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Well, man made God made man the keeper of the keys to his salvation.

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Man is made just like God and therefore man has the potential of God.

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I think God is black.

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Have you ever thought about your brain?

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No, I've never thought about it.

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He's a lovely man, he's not white.

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Levels of consciousness.

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But have you ever thought about the brain?

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Ramakrishna says that there are levels of consciousness that a man can attain during his lifetime.

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There's a first level on which there's an attachment or a non-attachment or self-abnegation or a detachment from objects, you dig.

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And the second level is meditation, total liberation of the mind and total liberation from the physical body, you dig.

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So as to, you know...

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And the third level, the third level is a consciousness that is in a sense becoming all-pervading, is becoming all-knowing,

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beginning to have a super-sight or open the third eye in which to peer into all things created.

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And the fourth level is a level of nothingness.

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The fourth level is where we absorb everything and we're boundless and there's no limits, there's no circumference, man.

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There's just eternal energy, you dig it.

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And that's what we're all going to, man. We dissolve this thing, man.

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It doesn't stay forever, but it may come back as an animal, it may come back as a stone,

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because as soon as the energy becomes independent, man, it collects again, you dig it.

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The matter attracts again. It has to, man.

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How do you think these things keep manifesting if it doesn't attract?

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Where is your guy? Where is he? Was he in Lincoln Park?

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The fourth level is a level of nothingness.

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The fifth level is a level of nothingness.

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The sixth level is a level of nothingness.

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The seventh level is a level of nothingness.

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The eighth level is a level of nothingness.

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The ninth level is a level of nothingness.

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The tenth level is a level of nothingness.

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Apple market continues, the goods are sold.

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429
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I have just come from that area. He is not there.

430
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The way the loudspeakers point is, the way we hear the audio clearly from him, all that they're loudening, it's not clear why they want the mic changed.

431
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The way we hear the audio...

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...and the one thing you can do is increase the signal to the rest of all of the voters.

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It is necessary for any voter to have to move forward.

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I think that's the message of the Black Master Party.

435
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The Black Master Party is not making the live broadcasts just because they want a sound card.

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It is very clear when you listen to all these leaders, or if you listen to the president's legal, or the captain's legal, or the US government,

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that they're not allowed to make this new thing into a sound card, because they can't get the sound card to be sold out.

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The sixth factor, the reason they realize this, is they realize any revolution in the country is necessary to develop a legitimacy for your own actions.

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Thank you.