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-2- Adult Delegates Youth Delegates Registration $3.00 $1.00 Sat. Luncheon 3.50 3.50 Banquet 7.50 7.50 Dance 2.00 1.00 Gold ticket Total: $16.00 $11.00 Individual tickets may be purchased to any of these events if you wish to attend. "Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet, it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change,....I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the moral conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world." Robert F. Kennedy 1966 For those people...black and white...who think the cry to join the fight for freedom is new..., we have copied excerpts from the Black Power Revolt, by Floyd Barbour. The words could come from today....but their authors were of another day. From Walker's Appeal, by David Walker - 1829 "...Let no man of us budge one step, and let slave-holders come to beat us from our country. American is more our country, than it is the whites - we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears: - and will they drive us from our property and homes, which we have earned with our blood? They must look sharp or this very thing will bring swift destruction upon them. ...Remember Americans, that we must and shall be free and enlightened as you are, will you wait until we shall, under God, obtain our liberty by the crushing arm of power? Will it not be dreadful for you? I speak Americans for your good. We must and shall be free I say, in spite of you. You may do your best to keep us in wretchedness and misery, to enrich you and your children, but God will deliver us from under you. And wo, wo, will be to you if we have to obtain our freedom by fighting. Throw away your fears and prejudices then, and enlighten us and treat us like men, and we will like you more than we do now hate you,... -Treat us like men, and there is no danger but we will all live in peace and happiness together. For we are not like you, hard hearted, unmercfiful, and unforgiving. What a happy country this will be, if the whites will listen. ...Treat us like men, and we will be your friends. And there is not a doubt in my mind, but that the whole of the past will be sunk into oblivion, and yet, under God, will become a united and happy people. The whites say it is impossible, but remember that nothing is impossible with God."... From "CALL To REBELLION" a speech delivered in 1843 by Henry Garnet. "...Let your motto be resistance! resistance! RESISTANCE! No oppressed people have ever yet secure their liberty without resistance. What kind of resistance you had better make, you must decide by the circumstances that surround you, and University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
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-2- Adult Delegates Youth Delegates Registration $3.00 $1.00 Sat. Luncheon 3.50 3.50 Banquet 7.50 7.50 Dance 2.00 1.00 Gold ticket Total: $16.00 $11.00 Individual tickets may be purchased to any of these events if you wish to attend. "Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet, it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change,....I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the moral conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world." Robert F. Kennedy 1966 For those people...black and white...who think the cry to join the fight for freedom is new..., we have copied excerpts from the Black Power Revolt, by Floyd Barbour. The words could come from today....but their authors were of another day. From Walker's Appeal, by David Walker - 1829 "...Let no man of us budge one step, and let slave-holders come to beat us from our country. American is more our country, than it is the whites - we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears: - and will they drive us from our property and homes, which we have earned with our blood? They must look sharp or this very thing will bring swift destruction upon them. ...Remember Americans, that we must and shall be free and enlightened as you are, will you wait until we shall, under God, obtain our liberty by the crushing arm of power? Will it not be dreadful for you? I speak Americans for your good. We must and shall be free I say, in spite of you. You may do your best to keep us in wretchedness and misery, to enrich you and your children, but God will deliver us from under you. And wo, wo, will be to you if we have to obtain our freedom by fighting. Throw away your fears and prejudices then, and enlighten us and treat us like men, and we will like you more than we do now hate you,... -Treat us like men, and there is no danger but we will all live in peace and happiness together. For we are not like you, hard hearted, unmercfiful, and unforgiving. What a happy country this will be, if the whites will listen. ...Treat us like men, and we will be your friends. And there is not a doubt in my mind, but that the whole of the past will be sunk into oblivion, and yet, under God, will become a united and happy people. The whites say it is impossible, but remember that nothing is impossible with God."... From "CALL To REBELLION" a speech delivered in 1843 by Henry Garnet. "...Let your motto be resistance! resistance! RESISTANCE! No oppressed people have ever yet secure their liberty without resistance. What kind of resistance you had better make, you must decide by the circumstances that surround you, and University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
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