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The Point Is Not Where Barack Obama Was Born, The Point Is Is That We've Got Congressmen On The Democratic Side Of The Aisle That Are Questioning The Legitimacy Of President-elect [donald] Trump Who Won In An Electoral Landslide.

Even In The Civil Rights Movement, There Were So Many Unbelievable Women. They Never, Ever Received The Credit That They Should Have Received. They Did All Of The, And I Cannot Say It, They Did All Of The Dirty Work. Hard Work.

We Have So Many Issues Today That We Need To Confront. Comprehensive Immigration Reform. We Have To Solve The Issue Of Poverty, The Issue Of Hunger, The Issue Of War - Spending Billions Of Dollars To Kill Rather Than To Build. We Have To Deal With The Fact That All Of Our Children Should Be Receiving The Best Possible Education.

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."

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.