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[donald Trump's Inauguration] Will Be The First One That I Miss Since I've Been In Congress. You Cannot Be At Home With Something That You Feel That Is Wrong, Is Not Right.

Many Of Us In Nashville Accepted Nonviolence As A Way Of Life, A Way Of Living, Not Simply As A Technique Or A Tactic.

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."

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 Think, In Fact, I Think President [barack] Obama Could Step Up.