Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.

I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They are not-in Montgomery. That is why I am here today. . . . You want to shut up every colored person who wants to fight for the rights of his people!.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom

We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction, in certain countries, of the greatest of man's literary heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of racial and national superiority, the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. The struggle invades the formerly cloistered halls of our universities and other seats of learning. The battlefront is everywhere. There is no sheltered rear.

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.