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The President Of The Branch In Atlanta Was A Pastor Of A Church, The Reverend Sam Williams, A Wonderful Guy. He Was Middle-class And Fairly Militant For The Time And Place.

I Tell Young People To Prepare Themselves As Best They Can For A World That Grows More Challenging Every Day-get The Best Education They Can, And Couple That Education With Real-life Experience In Social Justice Work.

Working In A Situation With Men And Women, And Seeing Women Take On Roles Equal To The Roles Taken By Men Made You Understand That, "hey, These People Can Do Things Too." And I Think It Made Me And Other People In The Movement Realize That We're Living In A Community Of Equals. And That Among Those Equals, They Have Equal Rights. And We Ought To Respect Their Rights If They Respected Ours.

People Don't Just Show Up And Lie Down In The Middle Of The Street Some Place Out Of Nothing. Somebody Said Meet Me There, Let's Get Together, And Let's Do This Thing. The Interesting Thing Is That We Don't Know Who All Of The Leaders Of These Groups Are, But We Know That They're Out There, And We Know A New Group Of Leadership Is Being Created. It Shows You That Leadership Can Come From Anywhere.

If Your Bible Tells You That Gay People Ought Not Be Married In Your Church, Don't Tell Them They Can't Be Married At City Hall. Marriage Is A Civil Rite As Well A Civil Right, And We Can't Let Religious Bigotry Close The Door To Justice To Anyone.