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We cannot give in to that kind of religious language. that s fine. our tent is being relief now from simply put this way, each of us has doubts and if we have value, we ought to have a voice . and the way to have a voice is to have a vote to determine the direction of your country and your destiny within it. and so we stand here tonight all ranchos three unbalances the bloodstained ballot. we stand here on the shoulders of the martyrs, schwerner, chaney and goodman, two. and it sounds like sunday morning there with van horn, a baptist preacher at his corner. just freedom of half sermon, halfy right, rachel . ....
It was the marshalling of the power of the federal government that played the most important role in pushing back white supremacist violence and terror. you describe the enforcement acts and the ku klux klan acts and these were all passed during reconstruction and the first civil rights statute passed since reconstruction was the civil rights act of 1957 which created the department of justice, and the department of justice played a vital role in the late 1950s and in the early 1960s in addressing the role of white supremacist violence, if we think about the bombing of the birmingham church, if we think about the goodman, cheney and schwerner and all of these acts of white supremacist violence were investigated by people like john dore and the justice department and the civil rights commission, it was the creation of the civil rights division that focussed this attention, remember, for decades before that congress refused to pass an anti-lynching statute so we had no civil rights ....
Have been killed in this movement over time to someone who they have left behind close to them. we ve seen people step into that role before. well, the goal of repression, the goal of efforts to silence and incite fear in those who would stand up for social justice is to make sure that people feel that they do not have the freedom to be able to stand up for what they believe is right. and when you rightly made reference to goodman, cheney, and schwarner, who were the unsung, unrecognized heroes who laid down their lives for the freedoms we have today, she now joins that pan thee on, and it continues forth. i would hope what we saw over the weekend would inspire all of us to recognize that in some ways, words come easy. the words of condemnation of what was really over the top representation of white ....
Of, quote, racial terror lynchings. that was their term, racial terror lynchings. this was just in 12 southern states and only from 1877 to 1950. there were more in other states during those years that were not counted in that study. and then there were the murders during the civil rights movement of the 1950s, and the 1960s, including the assassination of dr. martin luther king jr. in 1968. heather heyer takes her place in history now beside the names goodman, schwerner, and cheney, the three civil rights workers murdered in 1964. andrew goodman and michael schwarner were new yorkers who responded to the call to go south where they joined with mississippi civil rights worker james cheney in trying to help black people to register to vote. that was enough to get you ....