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(APPLAUSE)
That was our moment out there today.
You're right. I'm sorry.
(ALL AGREEING)
People are dying in the street for this.
(ALL CLAMORING)
into the side of my friend Jessie's face
So it was last week in Selma, Alabama.
Whether Jimmie Lee Jackson or James Reeb,
You've said disrespectful things in the past, Minister.
I have myself and the truth.
Dr. King, are you truly non-violent if you are provoking violence, sir?
who are motivated by dignity.
We've got 128 miles
I'm just here trying to register to vote.
YOUNG: Why?
Maybe we can make a deal.
out front of the White House
'Cause black people are poor!
Now he's playing into their hands.
So please consider
- Except he owes me a bus ticket home. - (CHUCKLES)
(JOHNSON CHUCKLING)
Beaten and broken down for generations.
Your whole career has been working for the poor.
Rest then.
and the state of Alabama.
- Hmm? - Mmm.
you need dominance in Selma.
I turned to my wife Coretta
Actually changed?
and waltz into the White House with a list of empty demands.
No, you can stop it. You, sir, can do more.
We've come too far to turn back now.
while offering poor white men a vicious lie as placation.
Mr. Bevel.
the decades-long dismissal
To correct the denial of this fundamental right,
(ABERNATHY CHUCKLES WRYLY)
Hey, hey, hey, what you need guns for?
The Selma Courthouse.
while her daddy... Her daddy beat him with an ax handle.
I do. I understand that.
I promise you!
Good,
From the hospital came reports of victims
Rock by rock.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
and to do so without a hearing,
But how many other fingers were on that trigger?
Those that have gone before us say, No more!
but this close to the new Nobel laureate
Let's take these bastards and stick them down into Alabama River
This isn't right.
drama.
If I ask you something,
And you know what else you said?
provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare...
I don't want to get back on Monday and find all our leadership in jail.
to pay the poll tax
Those that have gone before us say, No more!
black voters are kept off the rolls
It helps me in times when I'm feeling unsure.
Mr. President, Dr. King.
- KING: Looking like her mom. - You go play.
We can do this.
Are you not worth much more than they?
He say, Pa, you gonna vote before you done.
Not one conviction
They about to bust as it is.
ORANGE: I overheard them talking about him coming in this evening.
- (COUGHING) - Come on.
In control of what?
GERRY: I can't walk!
Let's scare some real sense into them black bastards.
Now you know what being a nigger around here feels like, boy.
(STAMMERING) It can't wait, Mr. President.
the Nobel Committee of Oslo, Norway,
Same thing?
Don't you want to protect yourself, Doctor?
before they can register.
Mr. President...
We will march until the viciousness and the darkness
(BOTH GRUNTING)
to come to our senses, gentlemen.
How could you allow it?
Malcontents are disrupting Alabama,
were swept to the ground screaming,
and walked six blocks to cross Pettus Bridge and the Alabama River.
- JIMMIE: Come on. - CAGER: I'm trying.
Well, thank you, Mr. President.
He wants the law changed, now.
to remind its people of our Founding Fathers' goals of duty.
I don't have that power.
lining the south side of the highway.
REED: Suddenly, there was a sharp sound, like a gunshot,
or I'll stop 'em both.
- RICHIE JEAN: Hey! - (ALL LAUGHING)
KING: I don't know, Andy.
Good to see you, Father. Good to see you.
I mean, bats, bricks,
A comprehensive plan is already in place.
There, long suffering men and women
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
I don't joke about that.
This is not us. This is not SNCC.
We'll get it started strong. And you'll finish strong.
put me in the same place as the likes of you.
- Huh? - (SIGHS)
But what we do
We have to move beyond these protests to some real political power.
(Viola Wailing)
(STAMMERING) It can't wait, Mr. President.
Bugging our homes and our hotel rooms.
Give 'em two minutes. Stand right there.
and determine their own destiny as human beings.
would have received the same consideration from their President.
(GRUNTS)
when you make the big speech at the end,
and walked six blocks to cross Pettus Bridge and the Alabama River.
(APPLAUSE)
(APPLAUSE)
at the Washington March.
CLARK: Come on.
Jesus H. Christ.
So we give up the march and you...
proudest moment of my life when I signed that '64 Act.
They could've sealed off the road behind us.
from all directions, they came.
Why are you off on this black thing?
of a basic American right for the Negro citizen.
could assure you that the administration would endorse a later march
But this administration is going to set this aside for a while.
Rarely in any time
And he was brave enough to follow that answer,
Okay. We about to sit him down. He can't sit.
Mr. White.
it's worth it to me.
Leave it to these two.
- Jimmie! - VIOLA: Don't do it.
Then why don't you just let 'em vote?
- of this administration as you know. - Thank you.
This bill has been almost impossible to craft,
that is stronger than our strongest opposition.
I can't go on like this.
who stands by without joining this fight
And in particular the consciousness
We heard them say they'd stop us, if it was the last thing they did.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
He said, I don't see how President Johnson
You remember that day at all?
It's okay, it's okay.
Then why don't you just let 'em vote?
Hurt? How?
Now, seeing as I can't convince you to
This was always part of the plan, wasn't it?
Now...
Jim's a good old boy, he's a friend of mine.
You deliberately disobeyed this judge and the Governor, did you not?
It just takes the edge off.
No, he doesn't want reiteration.
We are here, using our very bodies in protest
CLARK: Y'all deliberately causing an obstruction!
(GASPS)
by systematic intimidation and fear, Mr. President.
They seek to make us one mongrel unit.
MAN 2: What's that?
leading the movement.
When will we be free?
What'd I say, John?
They are the sainted ones in this quest for freedom.
You march those people into rural Alabama unprotected,
The Bible says, An eye for an eye, Reverend.
YOUNG: Why?
(APPLAUSE)
God was the first to cry.
well, then the people have spoken.
And now you're mad because it didn't go the way you planned?
KING: Mr. President.
is if an approved registered voter vouches for you.
v. the state of Alabama,
We go again.
flailing at the heads of the marchers.
In Selma, we can concentrate our actions on one building.
Called me a modern day Uncle Tom.
white, black and otherwise.
When I was...
- He gonna sit. - Sit down, God damn it!
But today, we stand as Americans.
REED: The first 10 or 20 Negroes
and you shouldn't neither.
We should be thinking about 1985.
and we're gonna wait right here.
Like when you're preaching,
tire irons, pipes.
Right now, Johnson has other fish to fry and he'll ignore us if he can.
They're gonna ruin me so they can ruin this movement.
deranged and twisted and just ignorant enough to be serious.
I haven't the time for this. None of us got the time for this.
Fewer cameras.
15 of them on horses,
I don't have any legal power over the county registrars, Mr. President.
It's good grassroots work.
You are not alone, my friend.
then throw them in jail.
But how many other fingers were on that trigger?
There she is! There's our girl!
We will not be stopped.
JIMMIE: I just told you he can't sit.
into the tangible tactics that it takes to dismantle it
No! Get off of him!
They are sainted now.
What happens when a man stands up and says enough is enough?
We need a new plan!
But with our commitment,
Let me hear the top-tier issues
not to have a peaceful protest?
The right to vote.