troops who today and even more so tomorrow will cause this state millions of dollars of federal funds from programs of education, agriculture highways, what have you, who have disparaged dozens of industries coming into the state and providing jobs for millions of black and white alabama and. how long, how long will you continue, white alabamians, to be the victims of this self-defeating folly? i say you cannot afford this luxury. as sure as we have an old flag flying behind me, as sure as we have here courageous people gathered, as sure as we have an absent governor, i say [applause] i say to white alabamians, that as sure as these things are true, you cannot keep the negro in third class citizen without you being second-class. finally, let me ask you three quick questions. people have said, why are we here? this march is to give a new carriage to the white citizens of the state of alabama who for too long have allowed the worst and the most ignorant elements of their popu