I Would Say To A Young Person:

In Spite Of All Of The Things, The Issues, That We May Be Confronting Today, I'm Very Hopeful, Very Optimistic About The Future.

Be Prepared To Organize Nonviolent Workshops - A Teach-in Around What Is Happening In America Today. Organize Your Teachers And Schoolmates, And Be Prepared To Engage In Some Action.

When I Was 15 Years Old In The Tenth Grade, I Heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three Years Later, When I Was 18, I Met Dr. King And We Became Friends. Two Years After That I Became Very Involved In The Civil Rights Movement. I Was In College At The Time. As I Got More And More Involved, I Saw Politics As A Means Of Bringing About Change

We Have Come A Long Way In America Because Of Martin Luther King, Jr. He Led A Disciplined, Nonviolent Revolution Under The Rule Of Law, A Revolution Of Values, A Revolution Of Ideas. We've Come A Long Way, But We Still Have A Distance To Go Before All Of Our Citizens Embrace The Idea Of A Truly Interracial Democracy, What I Like To Call The Beloved Community, A Nation At Peace With Itself.

This Book [march], In My Estimation, Is A Road Map. It Is A Change Agent. It Is Saying To People, "this Is A Way".