Feeling energized by many of the speeches yesterday. Newark Mayor Cory
Booker summoned the words of his father: “Boy, don't you dare walk around here
like you hit a triple, because you were born on third base. You are enjoying
freedoms, opportunity, technology, things that were given to you bought by the
struggles and the sacrifices and the work of those who came before. Don't you
forget where you come from."
John Lewis recalled Bloody Sunday in 1965 when the police beat
him and other protesters: “I gave a little blood on that bridge in Selma,
Alabama for the right to vote. I am not going to stand by and let the Supreme
Court take the right to vote away from us . . . You cannot stand by. You cannot
sit down. You got to stand up. Speak up. Speak out, and get in the way. Make
some noise!"
It was particularly wonderful to see the excitement among the
children around us when the 9-year old activist Asean Johnson took the stage:
"Every child deserves a great education. Every school deserves equal
funding and resources. I encourage all of you to keep Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.’s dream alive. Help us fight for freedom, racial equality, jobs, and public
education because I have a dream that we shall overcome."
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