We were the dreamers of a dream that dark yesterdays of mans inhumanity to man would soon be transformed into bright tomorrows of justice. We were the hardcore activists who were willing to believe that Southerners could be reconstructed in the constitutional image. Many assembled here campaigned lasciviously for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 because we could not stand ideally by and watch our nation contaminated by the 18th century policies of Goldwaterism. We are the marchers from Mississippi and Selma and Washington, who staked our lives on the American Dream during the first half of this decade. We have come because we see this as a dark hour in the affairs of men. We have seen our nation weighed in the balance of history and found wanting. Like the prophet of old, we have read the handwriting on the wall. We have come because our eyes have seen through the superficial glory and glitter of our society and observed the coming of judgment. And we have come here because we share a common concern for the moral health of our nation. We have come from Appalachian poverty and from conscious stricken wealth. We have come from the great universities and the flourishing suburbs. We have come here from the dusty plantations of the Deep South and the depressing ghettos of the North. Indeed by our very nature we affirm that something new is taking place on the American political horizon. Seldom if ’re still working with it.Īs I was about to say, seldom if ever has such a diverse and truly ecumenical gathering convened under the egis of politics in our nation, and I want to commend the leadership of the National Conference on New Politics for all of the great work that they have done in making this significant convention possible. I don’t know if the Klan is in here tonight or not with all the troubles we’re having with these microphones. Ladies and gentlemen.can you hear me in the back? (No) Chairman, friends and brothers in this first gathering of the National Conference on New Politics.
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