Published on Aug 28, 2013

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Bill Clinton mlk 50 year anniversary full speech at the lincoln memorial's steps. bill clinton talks stubborn gates. Other luminaries include Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, who signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

A march, led by a replica of a transit bus that civil rights leader Rosa Parks rode when she refused to give up her seat to a white man in 1955, and an interfaith service also were planned for Wednesday morning. A march held Saturday drew tens of thousands to the Lincoln Memorial.

Obama considers the 1963 march a "seminal event" and part of his generation's "formative memory." A half-century after the march, he said, is a good time to reflect on how far the country has come and how far it still has to go.

In an interview Tuesday on Tom Joyner's radio show, Obama said he imagines that King "would be amazed in many ways about the progress that we've made." He listed advances such as equal rights before the law, an accessible judicial system, thousands of African-American elected officials, African-American CEOs and the doors that the civil rights movement opened for Latinos, women and gays.

For those who missed it!

Published on Aug 24, 2013

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"Dreams are for those who won't accept reality. So they dream about what is not there, but will make it happen," Sharpton said.

"We must give us our young people dreams again. You build jails, closed schools and break their dream and you wonder why they are wearing saggy pants."

The Reverend delivered one of the best speeches that day, maybe we should make a poll...

Clinton, and Rev Al in their own posts in the BOG. Excellent history we can be so proud of.

Happy Labor Day!

It is the theme of his presidency and it will be the way he will be remembered. He is bold enough and confident enough to invite the people of this nation to change the course of their own government.

Some groups have really answered the call. LGBTs have been fighting tooth and nail for their civil rights and have made substantial gains. And they won't stop now. We will fight with them, too, because it is right and just, and because we won't tolerate human beings getting labeled "less than."

After all this time, the very things Martin fought and died for and John Lewis was jailed for are being taken away. African Americans and Latinos and the elderly and college students are fighting now to regain that ground. We will fight with them because the right to vote is essential. Without it there is no democracy.

And women are standing up and marching on state capitols by the thousands in places where their most fundamental rights are being appropriated by bigoted old men and ignorant religious zealots - as if they had the sense God gave a jaybird. They don't even know how the female body works, much less what is best for an individual woman. They also seem to have forgotten their very own ideology of less government intervention. So women gather to make their voices heard and their opinions known. This is a fight that crosses all barriers. Even those religious ones. Because even deeply religious women use birth control and are the victims of rape and have to make choices about continuing pregnancies.

Yes, the Tea Party is protesting, too. Not because they heard his call but because he's black. We've got to change that.

People are standing up for the right to be heard. They do not stand apart. They stand together, we can be One Voice.

"There's something happening here". As the song goes ..."What it is ain't exactly clear". I don't that's exactly true anymore. I believe that it is becoming clearer everyday.

Until recently the red octagon STOP signs in my area had stickers below the white letters:

'CHILDREN, WHAT'S THAT SOUND.'

We can't forget Vietnam, no more than we can Iraq now. It seems to be all of one piece, the War on Workers, Women, the people in all these civil wars going on.

We are so tired of this but it's a matter of survival. We either embrace our history or it rolls over us.

I still have not had the time to watch them all. I will be sure to listen tonight.

It's about our future. What we can achieve, what we will achieve together.

BOG

Let’s keep marching until every American has the opportunity to realize their dreams.

freshwest