00:00I
00:30Pray I will share, and I shall fall in my young death.
00:35I will demonstrate, indeed, I fall for bread.
00:39The way to treat my people is best to prepare.
00:43So that I will heal, because my home is in their hand.
00:51We are not afraid.
00:55We are not afraid.
01:02We are not afraid today.
01:12Oh, leap in my heart, I do believe.
01:22We shall overcome someday.
01:33We shall overcome.
01:34We shall overcome someday.
01:41We shall overcome someday.
01:48Oh, leap in my heart.
01:54Oh, leap in my heart.
01:56Oh, leap in my heart.
02:01I do believe.
02:06We shall overcome someday.
02:08We shall overcome someday.
02:13Someday
02:43Delegation, the location for the meeting with Senator Ribicoff has been changed to the Red
03:06Cross tent, which is to my left.
03:09At 11 o'clock, Senator Ribicoff will meet the Connecticut Delegation at the Red Cross tent.
03:15How many deaths will he take till he knows that too many people have died?
03:26The answer, my cross, is blowing in the wind.
03:31The answer is blowing in the wind.
03:35The answer is blowing in the wind.
03:47We'd like to sing a song.
03:57I had a hammer, I had a hammer in the morning, I had a hammer in the evening, all over this
04:17land, I had a hammer out danger, I had a hammer out a warning, I had a hammer out love between
04:27brothers and sisters, all over this land.
04:33Two-U toilet contains many objects,
04:43whether it be a kill or deer.
04:48That was a victory in front of us.
04:52Let's do this.
09:44Yeah.
09:48Oh, your triumphs, Lord, soon be old.
10:06Oh, your triumphs, Lord, soon be old.
10:14Oh, your triumphs, Lord, soon be old.
10:28I give you Mr. Burt Lancaster.
10:44All Americans, traveling no matter where in the world today, are in the position of ambassadors and are very often made bitterly aware of our country's reputation.
10:57It is not easy to be an American abroad, nor is it easy to make coherent to those who are not Americans the nature and the meaning of our struggle.
11:09And we are therefore forever indebted to those Americans represented by the March on Washington movement for giving us so stunning an example of what America aspires to become and for helping us redefine in the middle of this dangerous century what is meant by the American Revolution.
11:31We recognize that it is not only in America that the battle for freedom and dignity of peoples is being waged.
11:40The struggle toward freedom on the part of the previously subjugated is occurring in capitals and villages all over the world.
11:48It is on our awareness of what this struggle means and in the degree of our dedication to it that our futures and the future of the world depend.
12:19Thank you, sir.
12:22Thank you, sir.
12:25Freedom is a thing worth saving the power.
12:42Freedom is a thing worth saving the power.
12:49Freedom is a thing worth saving the power.
12:56Freedom is a thing worth saving the power.
13:02Let us counsel you and me.
13:09The keynote is democracy.
13:16Spread the message for a need.
13:22The time is now.
13:24The place is here.
13:26The acknowledged champion of civil rights in America,
13:31Mr. Roy Wilkins, executive secretary,
13:35National Association of the Advancement of Civil Rights.
13:47I want some of you to help me win a bet.
13:52I want everybody out here in the open to keep quiet.
13:58And I want to hear a yell and a thunder from all those people
14:04who are out there under the trees.
14:06Let's hear you.
14:07Let's hear you.
14:19There.
14:20There's one of them in the tree.
14:26Let us bow our heads in prayer.
14:47God of history and of all mankind.
14:56God of Abraham and Moses, Amos and Isaiah, Jesus and Paul.
15:09God of our weary years, God of our silent years,
15:19pour out thy benediction upon the United States of America.
15:30Pour it out upon President Kennedy.
16:13However, we know that this is not going...
16:18We believe that it's going to have its effect
16:21on the image of our country all over the world.
16:25Because it will indicate that not only are Negroes struggling
16:31to achieve a transition from second-class to first-class citizenship,
16:38but that our white brothers and sisters are marching arm in arm
16:43with the Negro citizens of the country for the purpose
16:47of achieving this objective.
16:50And consequently, this is and has been a great American experience.
16:58I think it...
16:59Roman Catholic Group Interracial Commission, which was represented here,
17:03that we, I think, proved that our judgment was right.
17:08The thing we wanted to do was to get in behind the leadership
17:11of the Negro community.
17:13Clearly, the religious leader of this occasion was Martin Luther King.
17:17And we are proud to have served behind and strengthening the witness
17:22that he's been carrying.
17:24The other thing is that we did produce a non-segregated march.
17:29Find the answers in the light of reason.
17:32Can we be certain that the apostles of hatred will not search for the answers
17:36in the darkness of night?
17:38And I believe that the real significance of what we have started here today is
17:42that we have laid the groundwork for the building of a functioning broad coalition
17:48of Americans from all walks of life, from all points of view,
17:52from all races and creeds and color, who can carry on not only the common struggle
17:57to achieve an effective and meaningful civil rights legislation,
18:01but who can do this practical work, the day-to-day job of fighting discrimination
18:05in education, in housing, in employment, in public accommodations.
18:10And I think this is the true significance of what we have started today.
18:15Pleasure now to present the moral leader of our nation,
18:21one who has conducted a massive moral campaign in the southern area of the nation
18:28against the citadel of racism.
18:31Dr. Martin Luther King, J.R.
18:34Thank you, Mr. Randolph.
18:37I would simply like to say that I think this has been one of the great days of America.
18:43And I think this march will go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest,
18:50demonstrations for freedom and human dignity ever held in the United States.
18:57Truth will stand us free. Truth will stand us free.
19:07We will overcome someday.
19:15Oh, David, come on.
19:20I do believe.
19:25Faith will stand us free.
19:28Faith will...
19:33Faith will speak.
19:35All is gone for a fight.
19:39All is gone for a fight.
19:43Faith will be gone for a fight.
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