A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom.... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom—his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom


Keynote address to annual convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1965)


A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom.... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve...

A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom.... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve...

A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom.... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve...

A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom.... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve...