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Deliver political power on the block where we live.
You here, because of you activity in the struggle for tenants' rights,
are superbly suited to enter into the struggle for political
parity for the unrepresented. Many of you have done so, and all of
us must begin to see the inevitability of the grounding of each separate struggle ^{for homes, for jobs, for freedom, for control} in common political action.

That process begins where you have begun, in your building and on
your block. It begins by your organizing your neighbors and friends
so that when votes are counted, their needs and desires are counted too.
That process multiplied a thousand times ^by where we happen to be,^{and how many of us there are} can build the basis for change.

The rest of the prescription is spelled out by the southern black
caucus, which in mid-summer suggested that black people stay away from
all of the candidates for president of the United States. By all the
candidates, I mean all of the candidates.