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:" Do you mean to tell me that your position is more important than four hundred thousand black people's lives?

Senator Humphrey, I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.

I had to leave the plantation where I worked in Sunflower County, Mississippi.

Now if you lose this job of Vice-President because you do what is right, because you help the MFDP, everything will be all right.

God will take care of you.

But if you take < nowiki > nomination < nowiki ></ nowiki > this way, why, you will never be able to do any good for civil rights, for poor people, for peace, or any of those things you talk about.

Senator Humphrey, I'm going to pray to Jesus for you.