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The Civil-rights Movement Was Completely Impossible To Achieve. But Look At What Ordinary People Were Able To Do Because They Were Willing To Sacrifice Their Lives To Stay With It. They Didn't Expect A Political Process To Respond To Them. They Made The Political Process Respond To Them. To Say "it's So Bad I Won't Bother" Is To Give Up On Your Children And Give Up On Your Future.

The Declaration Of Independence Was Always Our Vision Of Who We Wanted To Be, Our Ideal Of Freedom And Justice, How We Were Going To Be Different, And What The American Experiment Was Going To Be About.

Don't Wait For, Expect, Or Rely On Favors. Count On Earning Them By Hard Work And Perseverance.

It Was Very Clear To Me In 1965, In Mississippi, That, As A Lawyer, I Could Get People Into Schools, Desegregate The Schools, But If They Were Kicked Off The Plantations - And If They Didn't Have Food, Didn't Have Jobs, Didn't Have Health Care, Didn't Have The Means To Exercise Those Civil Rights, We Were Not Going To Have Success.

We All Need To Get Out Of Our Safety Zones Too. In Addition To Voting, We Need To Embarrass People Who Don't Do The Right Thing. It's Going To Take Citizen Action.