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  • Who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson.

  • Every white lawman who abuses the law to terrorize every white politician who feeds on prejudice and hatred, right?

  • Every white preacher who preaches the Bible and stay silent before his white congregation.

  • Go.

  • Who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson?

  • Every Negro man and woman who stands by without joining this fight as their brothers and sisters are humiliated, brutalized and ripped from this earth.

  • But you know, when I heard President Kennedy had been shot and killed And when I heard just yesterday that Malcolm X, who stood in this very church just three weeks ago, had been shot and killed, I turned to my wife, Coretta.

  • He said the same thing I often say when one of our leaders is struck down.

  • Our lives are not fully lived.

  • If we're not willing to die for those we love and for what we believe, see, Mhm.

  • But today, Jimmy, we're doing the living and you've done the dime.

  • Dear brother Oh way Will not let your sacrifice pass in vain.

  • Dear brother way will not let it go.

  • We will finish what you were after way will get what you were denying way will vote we will put these men out of office.

  • Way will take that power.

  • We will win what you were slaughtered for.

  • Yeah, yeah.

Who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson.

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