The Course Of History Can Be Changed

I Stand Here Struggling For The Rights Of My People To Be Full Citizens In This Country. They Are Not-in Mississippi. They Are Not-in Montgomery. That Is Why I Am Here Today. . . . You Want To Shut Up Every Colored Person Who Wants To Fight For The Rights Of His People!.

Artists Are The Gate Keepers Of Truth. We Are Civilization’s Radical Voice.

Vast Quantities Of U.s. Bombers, Tanks And Guns Have Been Sent Against Ho Chi Minh And His Freedom-fighters; And Now We Are Told That Soon It Will Be 'advisable' To Send America Gi's Into Indo-china In Order That The Tin, Rubber And Tungsten Of Southeast Asia Be Kept By The "free World"-meaning White Imperialism.

Why Should The Negroes Ever Fight Against The Only Nations Of The World Where Racial Discrimination Is Prohibited, And Where The People Can Live Freely? Never! I Can Assure You, They Will Never Fight Against Either The Soviet Union Or The Peoples' Democracies.

We Ask For Nothing That Is Not Ours By Right, And Herein Lies The Great Moral Power Of Our Demand.