I've Said It In The Past And

When I Was Growing Up In Rural Alabama, As A Young Child, About 50 Miles From Montgomery, And We Would Visit The Little Town Of Troy, Or Visit Montgomery Or Tuskegee, I Would See The Signs That Said, "white Men - Colored Men," "white Women - Colored Women."and I Would Come Home And Say To My Mother And Father And My Grandparents, "why?" "why This?" "why That?" And They Would Just Tell Me, "that's Just The Way It Is! Don't Get In The Way. Don't Cause Trouble."

The Advent Of The Civil Rights Movement During The 50s And 60s Made It Very Plain Crystal Clear To Me That We Had An Obligation To Do What We Could To Make Real The Constitution Of The United States Of America.

People Should Organize People To Just Turn Up And Participate In The Democratic Process. Knock On Doors. They May Not Be Old Enough To Register To Vote, But They Can Urge Their Teachers, Their Parents, Their Grandparents, Their Mothers, Their Fathers, And Others To Get Out And Vote.

The Government, Both State And Federal, Has A Duty To Be Reasonable And Accommodating.

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.