Thank you, Terry. Thank you, my dear. Thank you. My sister, my colleague, for
those kind words of introduction.
My beloved
brothers and sisters,
Members of the American family. On this day, we have a nation have a great deal
to be thankful for. Jimmie Lee Jackson,
Jimmie Lee Jackson,
whose death inspired the Selma march along with so many others
did not make to see this day.
But you and are here. We can bear witness to the distance will come and
the purpose remain in 50 years. And we must use this moment to recommit
ourselves to dough. We can finish the work. They're still work left to be
done. Get out there and push and pull until we redeem the soul of America.
Now I want to thank President Barack Obama and Mrs Obama, President George
Bush and Mrs Bush for being here today.
I want to thank all the members of the Cabinet and the administration who are
here. My colleagues in the crackers, all the elected of fissures, including
the great Governor Robert Bentley,
including the mayor of film, a George Evan and all of the American people. I
would like all members of the Congress in our delegation just to stand.
Thank you.
I want to thank the Faith and Politics Institute for bringing us together one
more time. And the core leaders of our delegation, Senator Tim Scott, Senator
Sherrod Brown, represent a terrorist sole representative Martha Roby. Thank
you so much.
It is good for me that Boynton without first contract when he came to Selma in
1962
she were registering people to vote here long before we arrived. Also glad
to see the daughter of Governor George Wallace here bigger while is Kennedy.
Thank you for being here. Pegging.
And I want to thank each and everyone of you who marched across the bridge on
Bloody Sunday. You didn't have to do it. But you did it. Thank you.
I tell you, it's good to be in Selma. One mo time. Just one more time.
People often ask me Why did you come back?
What property Duggars served. We come to Selma, will be renewed, become to be
inspired. We come to be reminded that we must do the work. The justice and
equality calls us to do Omar 7 1965
A few innocent Children of God
some Karen Onley, albeit role.
A few collection of Simple Bay.
A plane purse, all backpack
were inspired. The Walk
50 Dangerous Mile from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate the need for
voting rights in the state of Alabama
on that day.
On that day,
600 people
march into history,
walking two by two
down the sidewalk,
not interfering with the free Florida trade. Incomers
not interfere and Woodruff
with a con, a military discipline.
We were so peaceful, so quiet.
No one saying a word.
We were beaten.
Some of us was left bloody right here on this bridge. 17 of us were
hospitalized that day,
but we never became bitter. Ah, Hoster. We kept believing that the truth we
Stewart Farm would help the follows Sad.
This it is
on the banks of the Alabama River gave birth to a movement that change this
nation forever. My country will never, ever be the same because of what
happened on this bridge.
Eight days after Bloody Sunday, the president of the United States,
Lyndon Baines Johnson, delivery one of the most meaningful speeches ever made
by any president. On the question of voting rights,
he said the time a justice has come,
I believe sincerely that no force can hold it back.
Given understand, it is writing eyes a man and God that is sure from he said,
at time history and fate meet other thing of time in a single place.
The shape of a turning point in man on Interstate for freedom.
You don't just there So it wiles at Lexington and Concord. So it walls and
I commanded four walls in Selma, Alabama.
Each of us
let's go back to our homes after this celebration and build on the legacy of
the march in 1965. The seven movement is saying today that we all can do
sampling sidestep to you, don't you? Up on the same That great lean into you
Don't get lost in a sea of the space
Stand up for what you believe
Because in the final analysis we are one people, one family, the human
family. We all live in the same house.
American house, the World House.
Well, black
Well, right.
We are Hispanic,
Asian, American,
native American. What we want, people. Thank you