I'm Gonna Say That I Have Followed

As A Young Child, It Became Crystal Clear To Me That There Were Certain Rights And Privileges That Other People Had That My Mother, My Father, My Grandparents, My Great Grandparents Didn't Have - That It Was An Ongoing Struggle To Realize The Dream Of The 14th And 15th Amendment.

I Heard Of Martin Luther King Jr. When I Was 15 Years Old. I Heard Of Rosa Parks. And I Met Dr. King In 1958 At The Age Of 18. I Met Rosa Parks ... But To Pick Up A Fun Comic Book - Some People Used To Call Them "funny Books" - To Pick This Little Book Up, It Sold For 10 Cents, 12 Pages Or 14 Pages? 14 Pages I Digested. And It Inspired Me. And I Said To Myself, "if The People Of Montgomery Can Do This, Maybe I Can Do Something. Maybe I Can Make A Contribution."

It's Going To Be Very Difficult. I Don't See The President-elect [donald Trump] As A Legitimate President.

We Live In A Country Where We're Supposed To Have Freedom Of The Press And Religious Freedom, But I Think To Some Degree, There's A Sense Of Fear In America Today, That If You Say The Wrong Thing, What Some People Will Consider What Is Wrong, If You Step Out Of Line, If You Dissent, Whether You Be An Entertainer, That Somehow And Some Way This Government Or The Forces To Be Will Come Down On You.

I Would Like To Think That We Have Made Much More Progress, That We've Come Much Further, To Have Someone Like A Donald Trump To Emerge As The Nominee Of A Major Political Party.