Sensible People Have Got To Work Together.

I Say To People Today, 'you Must Be Prepared If You Believe In Something. If You Believe In Something, You Have To Go For It. As Individuals, We May Not Live To See The End.

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.

Young People Can Understand, And Must Understand, That We Had Success, We Had Failures, But We Never Gave Up. We Never Gave In. We Never Became Bitter. We Didn't Hate. We Continued To Press On. And That's What We're Saying: There Are Some Ups, There Are Some Downs, And When You're Not Down, You Must Have The Capacity And The Ability To Get Up And Keep Going.

My Mother And Father And Many Of My Relatives Had Been Sharecroppers.

As A Young Child, It Became Crystal Clear To Me That There Were Certain Rights And Privileges That Other People Had That My Mother, My Father, My Grandparents, My Great Grandparents Didn't Have - That It Was An Ongoing Struggle To Realize The Dream Of The 14th And 15th Amendment.