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(8) "freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails;"
(9) for Black people in court "to be tried....by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black communities;" and
(10) "land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace."
They also added words from the Declaration of Independence, saying:
-- "all men are created equal";
-- "to secure (their) rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed;"
-- "that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and institute a new government;"
-- "to throw off (despotism), and to provide new guards for (peoples') future security."
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