We May Not Have Chosen The Time,

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

What Sensible People Have Got To Do Is Not Simply Repeal The Affordable Care Act Without Any Alternative, But You've Got To Sit Down And Say It's Ok, What Are The Problems. How Do We Address It? How Do We Move To Universal Health Care? How Do We Lower Prescription Drug Costs? How Do We Make Sure That People Don't Have Outrageous Deductibles? You Just Don't Throw 20 Million People Off Of Health Insurance. You Don't Privatize Medicare.

Every American Has Got To Recognize, We Are The Only Major Country On Earth Not To Guarantee Health Care To All People. We Pay By Far The Highest Prices In The World For Prescription Drugs Because The Pharmacy, The Pharmaceutical Industry Is Out Of Control Ripping Us Off.

I Was So Inspired By Dr. King That In 1956 With My Brothers And Sisters And First Cousins, I Was Only 16 Years Old, We Went Down To The Public Library Trying To Check Out Some Books And We Were Told By The Librarian That The Library Was For Whites Only And Not For Colors! It Was A Public Library! I Never Went Back To That Public Library Until July 5th, 1998, By This Time I'm In The Congress, For A Book Signing Of My Book "walking With The Wind"

I Remember Being At The Church A Few Hours After The Church Was Bombed In Birmingham, The 16th Street Baptist Church. It Was Very Hard And Very Difficult To Stand On That Corner Across The Street From The Church. Or To Go Mississippi And Search For The Three Civil Rights Workers Who Came Up Missing. There Is A Lot Of Trauma.