If Someone Had Told Me In 1963

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.

Our Struggle Is A Struggle To Redeem The Soul Of America. It's Not A Struggle That Lasts For A Few Days, A Few Weeks, A Few Months, Or A Few Years. It Is The Struggle Of A Lifetime, More Than One Lifetime.

Young People Can Understand, And Must Understand, That We Had Success, We Had Failures, But We Never Gave Up. We Never Gave In. We Never Became Bitter. We Didn't Hate. We Continued To Press On. And That's What We're Saying: There Are Some Ups, There Are Some Downs, And When You're Not Down, You Must Have The Capacity And The Ability To Get Up And Keep Going.

Sensible People Have Got To Work Together.

I Believe It Is My Obligation To Tell The Story Of The Civil Rights Movement To The Next Generation.