- Collection:
- Civil Rights Library of St. Augustine
- Title:
- Paul Good Recordings : Tape 6 : Transcript
- Date of Original:
- 1964
- Subject:
- Civil rights--United States--Florida
- People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 - Location:
- United States, Florida, 28.75054, -82.5001
- Medium:
- transcripts
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This is a transcript of the sixth of journalist Paul Good's tape recordings in St. Augustine in the summer of 1964. This tape consists of one or more short speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Paul Good Recordings : Transcript for Tape 6 Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.: [Unintelligible] has forgotten that I know he's a businessman in the world, he's the biggest man in the world. He leads the greatest nation in the world and he can’t remember all these small things. So if you don't mind, if you will leave it to me, I'll remind him of it. [Applause] Now we have in this community right now some of the finest, most competent, most dedicated leaders to be found anywhere. And I want to say to you as Dr. Abernathy and I go out Thursday and be out a few days, please follow as you did so beautifully tonight this marvelous leadership, because I know that these persons will lead you in the right direction. So when Hosea Williams says "We must go down for sit-ins or wade-ins or jump-ins or kneel-ins or jail-ins, or any kind of in,” be on hand and be ready to go. Now I think our strategy has to be a kind of diversified strategy. We’ll use various methods, but I think we ought to march as much as possible to keep things alive. And then I think we will in the day have some demonstrations as the leadership will guide us and I think this is all important. Well they want me to repeat a statement I made for the press, so I'll have to repeat it and say to you that several months ago, the now great President of our nation came to this community as Vice-President, and you remember that when he came to this community, he made a promise. He promised that if demonstrations were held up that he would work passionately to make communication possible between the leaders of the community, between the white and Negro leaders in order to bring about a just resolution of this problem. Now many things have happened since that time and since that time he has become President of the United States, a head of the most powerful nation in the world. Now I know that President Johnson cannot remember everything. He has stood up on civil rights in a significant way and this is not at all criticizing him because he's demonstrating that one who hails from the South does not have to be backward in civil rights. I know he can't remember everything, and certainly with a busy schedule, the busiest man in the world, the leader of a great nation the most powerful leader in the world. He just can't remember everything, even things that he promised some months ago. So if you don't mind it and if you will leave it to me, I will take the responsibility of reminding him of it. [Applause] [Unintelligible] that we love them and we love them so much that we are willing to suffer and sacrifice in order to free them, because you know segregation hurts the white man as much as it hurts the Negro, he isn’t free either. So it’s love that motivates us and I think it’s so important for us to realize this, because if we don't realize this, our struggle can degenerate into a violent struggle. We’ve got to get the movement spirit and arouse this so eloquently. We’ve got to be with it by coming to these meetings. Now we want to see all of you back here tomorrow night. Are we going to be in the same churches tomorrow night?
Civil Rights Rally - Metadata URL:
- http://civilrights.flagler.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16000coll5/id/114
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- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Contributing Institution:
- Proctor Library
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