& Martin Luther King Jr.: ’I accept this honor for our lost ones, whose deaths pave our path. And for the 20 million Negro men and women motivated by dignity and a disdain for hopelessness...’ This isn’t right.
& Annie Lee Cooper: I ain’t stirring no fuss. I’m just here trying to register to vote. It’s all right this time.
Registrar: It’s right when I say it’s right. Recite the Constitution’s preamble. Know what a preamble is?
Annie Lee Cooper: «We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare...»
Registrar: How many county judges in Alabama?
Annie Lee Cooper: Sixty-seven.
Registrar: Name them. ...
& Martin Luther King Jr.: We will not wait any longer. Give us the vote!
— That’s right! No more!
Martin Luther King Jr.: We’re not asking. We’re demanding. Give us the vote!
& Martin Luther King Jr.: In the courthouse sits the heart of the matter, the voter registration office. Now this is an exceptional circumstance. See, in Albany, there were no clearly defined battle zones. The issue was segregation, and segregation was everywhere. In Selma, we can concentrate our actions on one building. A citadel, defended by fanatics. The Selma Courthouse. A perfect stage.
& Martin Luther King Jr.: While rageful violence continues towards the unarmed people of Selma, while they are assaulted with tear gas and batons like an enemy in a war, no citizen of this country can call themselves blameless, for we all bear a responsibility for our fellow man. I am appealing to men and women of God and goodwill everywhere, white, black and otherwise. If you believe all are created equal, come to Selma. Join us. Join our march against injustice and inhumanity. We need you to stand with us.
& President Lyndon B. Johnson: You think you’re jugglin’, Martin? I’m jugglin’, too.
Martin Luther King Jr.: I am a preacher from Atlanta. You are the man who won the presidency of the world’s most powerful nation by the greatest landslide in history four months ago. And you are the man dismantling your own legacy with each passing day. No one will remember the Civil Rights Act. But they will remember the standoff in Selma when you never even set foot in this state. They will remember you saying, «Wait, » and «I can’t,» unless you act, sir.
& President Lyndon B. Johnson: George, why are you doing this? Your whole career has been working for the poor. Why are you off on this black thing?
Gov. George Wallace: Well, ’cause you can’t ever satisfy them. First, it’s the front seat of the bus. Next, it’s take over the parks, then it’s the public schools, then it’s voting, then it’s jobs, hen it’s distribution of wealth without work...
& President Lyndon B. Johnson: We shouldn’t even be thinking about 1965. We should be thinking about 1985. You and I’ll be both dead and gone by then. In 1985, what do you want looking back? You want people remembering you sayin’, «Wait,» or «I can’t,» or, «It’s too hard»?
Gov. George Wallace: I don’t right care what they think, and you shouldn’t neither.
President Lyndon B. Johnson: Well... I’ll be damned if I’m gonna let history put me in the same place as the likes of you.
& President Lyndon B. Johnson: There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is only an American problem. The Constitution says that no person shall be kept from voting because of his race or color. To correct the denial of this fundamental right, this Wednesday, I will send to Congress a law designed to eliminate these illegal barriers. The bill will strike down voting restrictions in all elections, federal, state and local. And we shall do this. We shall overcome.
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& Annie Lee Cooper: I ain’t stirring no fuss. I’m just here trying to register to vote. It’s all right this time.
Registrar: It’s right when I say it’s right. Recite the Constitution’s preamble. Know what a preamble is?
Annie Lee Cooper: «We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare...»
Registrar: How many county judges in Alabama?
Annie Lee Cooper: Sixty-seven.
Registrar: Name them. ...
& Martin Luther King Jr.: We will not wait any longer. Give us the vote!
— That’s right! No more!
Martin Luther King Jr.: We’re not asking. We’re demanding. Give us the vote!
& Martin Luther King Jr.: In the courthouse sits the heart of the matter, the voter registration office. Now this is an exceptional circumstance. See, in Albany, there were no clearly defined battle zones. The issue was segregation, and segregation was everywhere. In Selma, we can concentrate our actions on one building. A citadel, defended by fanatics. The Selma Courthouse. A perfect stage.
& Martin Luther King Jr.: While rageful violence continues towards the unarmed people of Selma, while they are assaulted with tear gas and batons like an enemy in a war, no citizen of this country can call themselves blameless, for we all bear a responsibility for our fellow man. I am appealing to men and women of God and goodwill everywhere, white, black and otherwise. If you believe all are created equal, come to Selma. Join us. Join our march against injustice and inhumanity. We need you to stand with us.
& President Lyndon B. Johnson: You think you’re jugglin’, Martin? I’m jugglin’, too.
Martin Luther King Jr.: I am a preacher from Atlanta. You are the man who won the presidency of the world’s most powerful nation by the greatest landslide in history four months ago. And you are the man dismantling your own legacy with each passing day. No one will remember the Civil Rights Act. But they will remember the standoff in Selma when you never even set foot in this state. They will remember you saying, «Wait, » and «I can’t,» unless you act, sir.
& President Lyndon B. Johnson: George, why are you doing this? Your whole career has been working for the poor. Why are you off on this black thing?
Gov. George Wallace: Well, ’cause you can’t ever satisfy them. First, it’s the front seat of the bus. Next, it’s take over the parks, then it’s the public schools, then it’s voting, then it’s jobs, hen it’s distribution of wealth without work...
& President Lyndon B. Johnson: We shouldn’t even be thinking about 1965. We should be thinking about 1985. You and I’ll be both dead and gone by then. In 1985, what do you want looking back? You want people remembering you sayin’, «Wait,» or «I can’t,» or, «It’s too hard»?
Gov. George Wallace: I don’t right care what they think, and you shouldn’t neither.
President Lyndon B. Johnson: Well... I’ll be damned if I’m gonna let history put me in the same place as the likes of you.
& President Lyndon B. Johnson: There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is only an American problem. The Constitution says that no person shall be kept from voting because of his race or color. To correct the denial of this fundamental right, this Wednesday, I will send to Congress a law designed to eliminate these illegal barriers. The bill will strike down voting restrictions in all elections, federal, state and local. And we shall do this. We shall overcome.
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