TONIGHT, I HAVE TALKED FRANKLY. I MIGHT SAY I HAVE TALKED AS CASTRO SAYS MANY TIMES EVEN CRUDELY..BLUNTLY.. AND WHAT IS MY PURPOSE? IT IS TO FRIGHTEN YOU. YOU DO NOT KNOW YOUR DANGER. YOU ARE INNOCENT. YOU READ ONLY ONE PAPER. YOU READ ONLY THE BOOKS THEY TELL YOU TO READ. AND YOU ARE COWARDLY. WHEN YOU KNOW BETTER, AS MANY OF YOU DO, YOU SAY NOTHING. YOU LET A FEW STUDENTS TAKE ALL THE HEAT. STOP BEING COWARDS. AFTER CASTRO, WHO HAS A RIGHT TO BE AFRAID? WHAT WILL THEY DO TO YOU—PUT YOU IN JAIL? YOU HAVE A CHOICE. EITHER THEY PUT YOU IN JAIL FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING OR WE PUT YOU IN A GRAVE FOR DOING THE WRONG THING!  LOOK AROUND AT THE WORLD. THERE IS HARDLY A DECENT LEADER, A DECENT STATESMAN WHO HAS NOT BEEN IN PRISON. LOOK AT THE U.N., FULL OF EX-CONS. THERE COMES A TIME WHEN YOU BELONG IN JAIL. BUT IF YOU ALL SPEAK UP, YOU WILL NOT GO TO JAIL, AMERICAN REACTION IS ON THE RUN, AND IF YOU APPLY A LITTLE PRESSURE, THEY WILL NOT JAIL YOU, THEY WILL TRY TO PLACATE YOU, THEY WILL TRY TO BEGUILE YOU THAT THEY HAVE CHANGED THEIR WAYS. INSTEAD OF CLUBS, THEY WILL USE HONEY, INSTEAD OF FEAR, THEY WILL USE TEMPTATION, INSTEAD OF MARINES, THEY WILL US PEACE CORPS. THE REVOLUTION IS NOT AGAINST THE COMMON PEOPLE OF NORTH AMERICA. IT IS AGAINST OUR COMMON ENEMY, GREED, BRUTALITY, MONOPOLY, REGIMENTATION. WE IN LATIN AMERICA WILL WIN THIS WAR FOR DECENCY. WE WILL WIN WITHOUT YOUR HELP, IF NECESSARY. BUT WE WILL WIN SOONER AND WITH LESS LOSS OF LIFE IF WE HAVE YOUR HELP. BUT, REMEMBER WE WILL WIN WITH YOU OR AGAINST YOU. 

 

BUT IF YOU CAN TEAR YOURSELVES AWAY FROM THE HYPNOTISM OF THE U.S. PRESS, AND READ, STUDY, THINK FOR YOURSELF, BE A MAN, DISAGREE AND IF NECESSARY, DO WHAT WE DID, EVEN GO TO JAIL, DIE IF NECESSARY, BUT JOIN WITH US IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THAT LAND THAT GOETHE, THE GREAT GERMAN POET OF LIBERATION SPOKE OF 

 

IF I COULD ONCE ON FREE SOIL STAND 

AND SEE ALL THE PEOPLE FREE, 

THERE WOULD BE MY NATIVE LAND. 

THEN UNTO THE MOMENT MIGHT I SAY, 

LINGER AWHILE, SO FAIR THOU ART!