[donald Trump's Inauguration] Will Be The First

The Lessons Of Nonviolence Are Universal. Not Just For America.

We All Remember That [donald] Trump Was One Of The Leaders Of The So-called Birther Movement Trying To Delegitimize The Presidency Of Our First African-american President Barack Obama, Which Is An Outrage.

I Would Say To A Young Person: Continue To Study. Study What Is Taking Place In Your Community, In Your Neighborhood, Maybe At Your School.

We Live In A Country Where We're Supposed To Have Freedom Of The Press And Religious Freedom, But I Think To Some Degree, There's A Sense Of Fear In America Today, That If You Say The Wrong Thing, What Some People Will Consider What Is Wrong, If You Step Out Of Line, If You Dissent, Whether You Be An Entertainer, That Somehow And Some Way This Government Or The Forces To Be Will Come Down On You.

When I Was Growing Up In Rural Alabama, As A Young Child, About 50 Miles From Montgomery, And We Would Visit The Little Town Of Troy, Or Visit Montgomery Or Tuskegee, I Would See The Signs That Said, "white Men - Colored Men," "white Women - Colored Women."and I Would Come Home And Say To My Mother And Father And My Grandparents, "why?" "why This?" "why That?" And They Would Just Tell Me, "that's Just The Way It Is! Don't Get In The Way. Don't Cause Trouble."