If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions . . . Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'

We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.