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i come here tonight and plead with you. believe in yourself and believe that you're somebody. as i said to a group last night
nobody else can do this for us! no document can do this for us. no lincolnian emancipation proclamation can do this for us. no kennesonian or johnsonian civil rights bill can do this for us. if the negro is to be free
he must move down into the inner resources of his own soul and sign with a pen and ink of self-assertive manhood
i come here tonight and plead with you. believe in yourself and believe that you're somebody. as i said to a group last night
nobody else can do this for us! no document can do this for us. no lincolnian emancipation proclamation can do this for us. no kennesonian or johnsonian civil rights bill can do this for us. if the negro is to be free
he must move down into the inner resources of his own soul and sign with a pen and ink of self-assertive manhood
i'm leavin' nothin' to the imagination
i want to earn my emancipation proclamation
through the radio stations
i'm leavin' nothin' to the imagination
i want to earn my emancipation proclamation
through the radio stations
still mass incarcerations
so much for the emancipation proclamation
oh
still mass incarcerations
so much for the emancipation proclamation
oh
i gotta feed the team
emancipation proclamation
baby
i gotta feed the team
emancipation proclamation
baby