I Think, In Fact, I Think President

It Is Our Hope That When People Read "march" - Book One, Book Two, And Book Three - That They Will Understand That Another Generation Of People, Especially Young People, Were Deeply Inspired By The Work Of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. And Many Others.

I Think It Is A Must For Young People And Generations Yet To Come, To Understand, To Feel, To Touch, To Almost Smell The Drama Of What Happened A Few Short Years Ago [the Civil Rights Movement Of The 1950s And 1960s]. So Maybe, Just Maybe, We Will Never Ever Repeat This Unbelievable Time In Our History. We Have To Tell It All, And Make It Plain, And Make It Clear, So People Will Never Ever Forget The Distance We Have Come, And The Progress We Have Yet To Make.

I Met Rosa Parks When I Was 17. I Met Dr. [martin Luther] King When I Was 18. These Two Individuals Inspired Me To Find A Way To Get In The Way, To Get In Trouble. So I Got In Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble.

First Time I Got Arrested, I Knew Somehow And Some Way, We Would Succeed. To Go On The Freedom Ride To Be Beaten And Left Bloody And Unconscious, To Be Beaten On That Bridge In Selma, Have A Concussion - I Thought That I Was Going To Die On That Bridge. But Somehow And Some Way, I Lived To Tell About What Happened, And I've Seen Some Of The Fruits Of The Labor Of So Many People, And People Must Understand That.

You Cannot Be Afraid To Speak Up And Speak Out For What You Believe. You Have To Have Courage, Raw Courage.