“The more the movement for my freedom increased in numbers, strength and confidence, the more imperative it became for everyone
to see it not as something exceptional, but as a small part of a great fight against injustice, one in bough in a solidly rooted tree of resistance. It was not only political repression, but racism, poverty, police brutality, drugs and all the myriad ways black, brown, yellow, and white working people are kept chained to misery and despair.”
The speaker wants equal rights for Negros. Negro soldiers saved democracy in France and he wants the same rights (voting, de-segregation...) in their own country.
