“If you had 50 Negroes who were willing to sit in the restaurant, go to jail, be beaten, have cigarette ends stuffed down their neck, have their hair clipped, have their hair burned, if they would merely sit, that institution, that restaurant could be changed in a few days.”
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Negro Revolution in 1965 Speech at The Center for Democratic Institutions Santa Barbara, California - Autumn 1964
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