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“We are not a pressure group, we are not an organization or a group of organizations, we are not a mob. We are the advanced guard of a massive, moral revolution for jobs and freedom.”
Source: Opening address at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Lincoln Memorial, 28 August 1963
Context As director of the march, which he had first proposed in 1941, he opened the programme before a crowd of about 250,000 people.
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