**Fred Shuttlesworth:** Then we got a little bit and then we got all,
they\'re more stupid then most of us. \<Inaudible\> not getting any
better, pharaoh still says who is the lord, it says no sophisticated. We
don\'t have the signs, we don't, you know, people beating up
\<inaudible\> most white people beat me up in the street, I don\'t think
bad about folk. One thing you learn if you learn who love the lord you
ain\'t gonna go around thinking bad about folk. You\'re gonna give other
folks as much chance to be good and loving and \<inaudible\>. That\'s
why I think black folks sometimes they get talking and talking and
forget that it is god who keeps us, it is god really who started to
fight, you think you did but you didn\'t. A lot of folk and everybody
who was in it before I got there I thank god for them and everybody who
would come behind me I thank. But I do think I have inspired some folks
to pick up and go a little further, we are to make steps in finding a
deeper depth and a higher height and him who calls us to be a soldier. I
don\'t know about you but I like that sound we are climbing what
Jacob\'s ladder; I\'m climbing, you climbing? Everyone gets higher and
higher, every time I overcome here, god \<inaudible\> and don\'t ask god
for better faith, ask him for more faith. The lords got faith enough for
all of us and then god is bringing us closer to himself, I\'m taking my
seat, you know, I decided I was going to just do more teaching and
preaching \'cause we need to know who the lord is. Jobe when they got in
trouble he said all that I knew where I might find him, I got news for
you, you don\'t have to find him, he finds you, he knows where you are.
I tell young folk he\'s glad to see you and I go across the country and
I tell folk listen if the worlds gonna change you got to change. If the
worlds gonna get better you got to make it better, you got to get rid of
this war like stuff, we spend more money \<inaudible\> of our budget on
military while the world is marching against going to war, Bush
\<inaudible\>. And now they\'re in a war they can\'t stop, it look to me
like uh... I think \<inaudible\> said the lord like he did when people
got tired of \<inaudible\> they say Moses tell god we\'re tired of this
stuff he\'s fixed for us, tell him we want some meat and the great god
of this universe tell me \<inaudible\> that a flock of quail fly right
over the town and while they rode a tablet of wind pushed em around, got
all the feathers off, all we had to do was pick it up, there it is. But
god \<inaudible\>. And so \<inaudible\>. I hope \<inaudible\>. You see
some of us have decided we don\'t hate anyone, when had done enough for
all of us \<inaudible\> some of us gonna hate certain people and some
black folk are hating black folk. \<Inaudible\> \'cause even in a
systematic where police are killing enough of them, we start killing
each other and I don\'t know what\'s happening here but I just ask god
to help me just be myself. I close with this little thought, my Deacon
who was sitting right by me in the bed when the house was blown off, you
don\'t know why god does these things, just thank him he gonna be god in
spite of everything. And he said to me and there was a mirror behind his
head with this wound about this deep and that mirror must have shattered
into a million pieces and he didn\'t even, just two or three little
puddles of blood, didn\'t even run. And I think he was starving and he
said to me well he said I guess the lord, it\'s not like he said L A W
D, I guess the lord saved me \'cause I was with you. I said that he did
Charlie that he did, when you can understand who the lord is and what he
does and be thankful for what he does. So I sang that song, can you pray
my heaven \<inaudible\> yeah I used to sing that a lot you know. I know
you got \<inaudible\> I just feel like it, I don\'t know I just like to
testify something, I like to tell the world what the lord has done for
me. Let us all stand as we sing I trust in god.

\<Singing\>

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