If You're Not Hopeful And Optimistic, Then

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."

You Cannot Give Up - You Have To Be Persistent And Keep Pushing, And Press On.

I Think, In Fact, I Think President [barack] Obama Could Step Up.

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.

Even In The Civil Rights Movement, There Were So Many Unbelievable Women. They Never, Ever Received The Credit That They Should Have Received. They Did All Of The, And I Cannot Say It, They Did All Of The Dirty Work. Hard Work.