○  we shall overcome  ○

city dweller. these are the enemies: poverty, ignorance, disease. they're our enemies, not our fellow man, not our neighbor. and these enemies too -- poverty, disease, and ignorance: we shall overcome.

now let none of us in any section look with prideful righteousness on the troubles in another section, or the problems of our neighbors. there's really no part of america where the promise of equality has been fully kept. in buffalo as well as in birmingham, in philadelphia as well as selma, americans are struggling for the fruits of freedom. this is one nation. what happens in selma or in cincinnati is a matter of legitimate concern to every american. but let each of us look within our own hearts and our own communities, and let each of us put our shoulder to the wheel to root out injustice wherever it exists.

as we meet here in this peaceful, historic chamber tonight, men from the south, some of whom were at iwo jima, men from the north who have carried old glory to far corners of the world and brought it back without a stain on it, men from the east and from the west, are all fighting together without regard to religion, or color, or region, in vietnam. men from every region fought for us across the world twenty years ago.

and now in these common dangers and these common sacrifices, the south made its contribution of honor and gallantry no less than any other region in the great republic -- and in some instances, a great many of them, more.

and i have not the slightest doubt that good men from every

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