Over fifty years ago, courageous men and women stepped forward to challenge the status quo and change an unjust society. On April 4, 2018, two warriors of the movement, John Lewis and James Lawson, answer the question “Where do we go from here?” while sharing their experiences in the fight for civil rights, and their hopes for the future during the MLK50 commemoration of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis…
Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American. We draw our people, our strength, from every country and every corner of the world…
Martin Luther King Jr's Love Your Enemies Speech. Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, on November 17, 1957.
FREEDOM IS NOT ENOUGH But freedom is not enough. You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please.
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair…
Dolores Huerta gives message of hope to Justice seekers on August 12. 2017 after the murder of Heather Heyer by a white supremacist in Charlottesville, Virginia. Ms. Huerta, the 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom Awardee, recalling the words of Nobel Laureate for Literature Pablo Neruda:: "[The members of hate groups]: can cut the flowers but they cant't stop the Spring…"
President John F. Kennedy made the commencement speech at American University on June 10, 1963. This speech marked the start of detente with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The president spoke about his concerns regarding atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. A month later, the U.S., Soviet Union, and Great Britain officially agreed to end such testing…
In US news and current events today, this historic John Lewis speech at the 1963 March on Washington cemented his status in the Civil Rights Movement. The John Lewis March on Washing Speech 1963 is among the most famous speeches of the Civil Rights Movement, and in the advent of today's global Black Lives Matter movement, the words of this Congressman John Lewis speech have never been more relevant…
Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let's face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely. My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. His father, my grandfather, was a cook, a domestic servant.
But my grandfather had larger dreams for his son…