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thank you very much thank you and I do
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love Mississippi it's a great place and
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thank you
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governor Bryant for that kind
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introduction and for honoring me with
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this invitation to be with you today I
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also want to recognize Secretary ben
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Carson and his wonderful wife kandi for
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joining us thank you
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Thank You Ben Thank You kandi I
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especially want to thank you justice
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Ruben Anderson great man with a great
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reputation even outside of the state of
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Mississippi I have to tell you that so
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thank you thank you very much and you
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are an inspiration to us all thank you
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judge and we're here today to celebrate
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the opening of two really extraordinary
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museums and I just took a tour the
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Mississippi State history museum and the
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Mississippi Civil Rights Museum to all
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who helped make these wonderful places
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possible we are truly grateful we thank
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you we admire you it was hard work it
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was long hours sell a lot of money and I
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know the governor helped with that you
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know that was a great thing you've done
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that's a great legacy fill right there
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just that in itself but it really is a
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beautiful beautiful place and it's an
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honor these museums are labors of love
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love for Mississippi love for your
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nation love for god-given dignity
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written into every human soul these
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buildings embody the hope that has lived
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in the hearts of every American for
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generations the hope in a future that is
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more just and more free the civil rights
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museum records the oppression cruelty
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and injustice inflicted on the African
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American community the fight to end
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slavery to break down Jim Crow to end
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segregation to gain
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the right to vote and to achieve the
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sacred birthright of equality here
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[Applause]
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that's big stuff that's big stuff those
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are very big phrases very big words here
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we memorialize the brave men and women
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who struggle to sacrifice and sacrifice
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so much so that others might live in
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freedom among those we honor are the
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Christian pastors who started the civil
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rights movement in their own churches
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preaching like Reverend Martin Luther
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King jr. man that would have studied and
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watched and admired from my entire life
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that we're all made in the image of our
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Lord students like james Meredith who
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were persecuted for standing up for
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their right to the same education as
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every other American student young
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people like the nine brave students who
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quietly said and they said very
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stoically but very proudly at the
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Jackson Public Library in 1961 and by
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the way I would add the word very
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bravely they said very bravely
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and finally martyrs like Sargent Medgar
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Wylie Evers
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whose brother I just met at the plane
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and who I liked a lot I have to stand up
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please come on stand up you were so nice
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I appreciate it
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you were so nice thank you very much
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medgar joined the US Army in 1943 when
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he was 17 years
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