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NAACP speech:




"We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” This
is the declaration of Independence of the United States of America in
July 14, 1776. And tonight, July 15, 1909, we are here to restate the
this declaration, because we are not southerners or northerners,
black or white, rich or poor, but we are Americans – the citizens
of this nation.


How do we defined
equality? How does the government defined equality when thousand of
African American was forced to left their homeland, to migrate from
the rural South to Kanseas in 1870? These exodusters are the pioners
in the war of fighting for the truth equality – the equality with
no segregation. We formed Colored Farmers's National Alliance in 1886
to help each other economically by setting up cooperative in order to
persuit our happiness. “Separate but equal” is not exist; we are
not slavers under freemen's coats. We are the citizens of the United
States of America; therefore, nothing is allowed to take away our
right to vote. Not the poll tax that requieres us to pay before we
can vote or the literacy test that requires the voters to pass.
Neither will the grandfather clause restrict us. Jim Crow laws is an
example of our government's corruption. This law separated the
strength of our nation and weaken our souls. It is a law that against
the law. Is it fine for you to see your friends or your family
members be killed with no reason – none but the fact that they were
born with colored skin? It is not fine to me – not to a member of
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). I
am in fire against this lynching practices, the executions without
proper court proceedings. I am in fire to see that the government is
ignorring this matter. If our government is blind, we will replace
it. The NAACP is formed because we the people have nothing to loose
but everything to gain once we are unite.


Brothers, do any of
you know Mr. Du Bois who stated that : “ Negroes must insist
continually, in season and out of seson, that voting is necessry to
proper mandhood, that color discrimination is barbarism”? Do any
of you know Mrs. Ida Wells, the young woman who published a book
decouncing mob violence against African American in 1895? They are
the leader of NAACP. Through relentless works and effort, the number
of lynchings decreased, the number of NAACP's members increased, and
the way to promise future of our nation shortened. Even though they
are not here tonight, their hearts and their souls are with us. They
lent us the strength and the courage. So brother, together in our way
to achieve full equality, we afraid of nothing and fear nothing.


In 1883, encouraged
by the Supreme Court's ruling, the civil Rights Act of 1875 was
overturned. One after another, poll tax, literacy test, grandfather
clause, Jim Crow laws disfaranchising us, the citizens. And we no
longer able to sit still when the Race Riot of 1908 take place in
President Lincoln's hometown. The NAACP was founded on February 12 by
the elite group including Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Mary White
Ovington...And the organization pledged to overturn Jim Crow laws,
and demanding for our right. This is not the organization for the
black or the white, not for the poor or the rich. This organization
was formed to welcome every citizens who love this country, who
believe that in this country, every men have the right of speech,
press, religions, assemble...and on top of that is the right to vote.
I am a believer of a better future of my children's generation isonly
one step further, that is to joint our hands toghether bravely and
fight for our right. I am the follower of the men who said: we shall
win. The past promised it, the present foretells it..Courage
brothers! The battle for humanity is not lost or losing. All across
the skies sit signs of promise.”.The follower of the organization
that promises nothing more the the truth equality to all men across
this nation. And I'm the follower of my


own dream, my hope,
my belief that nothing more but the voting right will bring us the
education, the prosperity that we all want, we all need, and we all
deserve. I am a citizens of the United State of America. I am a
member of the NAACP. I am your supporter. I am here tonight to tell
you that brother, it is wrong for any one to take away our lives,
freedome, happiness. It is wrong for any of them to take away our
right to vote. And it's is a sin to not hold our head high and to
fight for what we the farmers, the hard workers, believe in This is
our nations, and we have our rights.

We are all gather
here tonight because he have the same dream, belief, and hope then
what are you afraid of, what are you waiting for. Let's hold our
hands toghether, and hold them tight because our destination was not
decided when we were born. It will not be decided tomorrow, but it is
decided to night, that we are united, that we are Americans, and that
we all have the right of life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness.
We all have the right to vote. And there shall be no law separated
us, the citizens of this nation.

speech: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivil1866.htm