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The Events In Prague, Together With The Berlin Blockade, Convinced The European Recipients Of American Economic Assistance That They Needed Military Protection As Well: That Led Them To Request The Creation Of A North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Which Committed The United States For The First Time Ever To The Peacetime Defense Of Western Europe.

We Have Come A Long Way In America Because Of Martin Luther King, Jr. He Led A Disciplined, Nonviolent Revolution Under The Rule Of Law, A Revolution Of Values, A Revolution Of Ideas. We've Come A Long Way, But We Still Have A Distance To Go Before All Of Our Citizens Embrace The Idea Of A Truly Interracial Democracy, What I Like To Call The Beloved Community, A Nation At Peace With Itself.

I Think Right Now, The Focus Has Got To Be On How We Hold [donald] Trump Accountable.

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."

When Growing Up, I Saw Segregation. I Saw Racial Discrimination. I Saw Those Signs That Said White Men, Colored Men. White Women, Colored Women. White Waiting. And I Didn't Like It.