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by someone else, voting against us for someone else, or will they be people like yourselves.

And if the party that had to come to us for twenty percent
of the vote it did get in 1968 refuses to bargain honorably, will we
say we've got noplace else to go, or will we by then have designed
a strategy to prepare for that contingency.

Whatever you decide to do, make sure it is something decided by
you. Don't let some slick talker like me come to your town or your
state and set your political priorities for you. Don't let anyone
come to you and tell you they represent you - if you didn't choose ^them
or invite them in, they can only represent themselves.

My argument is simple. It is that politics hold some answers
for us. It is that these answere will never develop until we develop
our own politics. From where you operate, it may be all-black politics