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"Mr. Lincoln, I've Decided to Trust You!" script, 1967
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33 The usher's flood lights play on him and they move to remove him. MR. LINCOLN "Let him stay...he and I both need the social therapy rendered here. I, too, preached revolution...let no man here believe otherwise. I will stand by my statement...."That perhaps some men are too ignorant and vicious to share in the vote, but we owe them the chance to grow strong less ignorant and wiser. I say here as I said in 1856...Revolutionize through the ballot box, and restore the Government, once more to the affections and hearts of men, by making it express what it was intended to do, the highest spirit of justice and liberty. Today I say, throw down your shameful armour of false values, beat the drums of truth, throw that damning ingrain racism brates another man as a human, no less than yourself." MR. X. "You've used great words and perhaps now you are sincere, but what of the abolitionist who believe you and turned their backs on these words you give today? What of their lost children who became the progenitor of this racial instanity." MR. LINCOLN (sadly-quietly) "I was trying to preserve a nation...can't you see...hold a people together." MR. X. "I can see, what you did not see. I can see you sitting there in the White House, composing a speech and delivering it before House and Senate, trying to win them over, buying time, and being expedient with truth, asking in your most forensic zeal; that the South be given pecuniary aid and compensation for it's inconveniences of losing it's property...that is, black bodies, minds, collectively called slaves. You even suggested gradual emancipation. You said you preached the highest revolution, you were too bogged down in the pragmatic world of economical loses and gains. Would you believe that the seeds of gradualism still exists a hundred years after your demise. Would you believe that gradualism is an official policy of our country today. If you passed a law against murder on Thursday, would you not expect justice to deal swiftly
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33 The usher's flood lights play on him and they move to remove him. MR. LINCOLN "Let him stay...he and I both need the social therapy rendered here. I, too, preached revolution...let no man here believe otherwise. I will stand by my statement...."That perhaps some men are too ignorant and vicious to share in the vote, but we owe them the chance to grow strong less ignorant and wiser. I say here as I said in 1856...Revolutionize through the ballot box, and restore the Government, once more to the affections and hearts of men, by making it express what it was intended to do, the highest spirit of justice and liberty. Today I say, throw down your shameful armour of false values, beat the drums of truth, throw that damning ingrain racism brates another man as a human, no less than yourself." MR. X. "You've used great words and perhaps now you are sincere, but what of the abolitionist who believe you and turned their backs on these words you give today? What of their lost children who became the progenitor of this racial instanity." MR. LINCOLN (sadly-quietly) "I was trying to preserve a nation...can't you see...hold a people together." MR. X. "I can see, what you did not see. I can see you sitting there in the White House, composing a speech and delivering it before House and Senate, trying to win them over, buying time, and being expedient with truth, asking in your most forensic zeal; that the South be given pecuniary aid and compensation for it's inconveniences of losing it's property...that is, black bodies, minds, collectively called slaves. You even suggested gradual emancipation. You said you preached the highest revolution, you were too bogged down in the pragmatic world of economical loses and gains. Would you believe that the seeds of gradualism still exists a hundred years after your demise. Would you believe that gradualism is an official policy of our country today. If you passed a law against murder on Thursday, would you not expect justice to deal swiftly
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