Lawrence O'Donnell
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But anyway, please, Lawrence, please continue.
So I want to turn to this wonderful book by Joanne Reed.
Oh, no!
No, seriously, this is important, and it's to the answer of what we're talking about here.
Because, you know, right in the middle of it, on page 194, there is this.
This is the decisive battleground for America.
Now that really feels like something someone said five minutes ago or any time in this year.
That's 1964.
That's a 24-year-old guy.
This is so classy.
Who is going to be murdered that year.
because he has decided in 1964 that what he's going to do is leave the safety of his home in the North and go to Mississippi, the most dangerous place in America, and go down there as a civil rights worker trying to help people register to vote.
That was his choice.
There were other people who couldn't do that, people his age who, never leaving their neighborhoods or their towns in the North and elsewhere around the country, tried to fight the same fight, tried to do what they could do.
There were people who decided that what they would do is vote, that they were on the side of the righteous, but all they could do is vote.
But every one of those people made some kind of decision in the face of something that was hopeless.
It looked hopeless in 1964.
It looked in 1964 that if you think you're going to work to get black people the right to vote in Mississippi, you are going to be dead and no one's going to get through.
And in the end, he won.
He won in death.
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