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I Grew Up In A Very Religious Family And It Is The Motivating Force To Every Thing I Do. I Am Fortunate To Have Had Adults All Around Me Who Really Lived Their Faith, In Helping Other People And Doing The Best You Can Do. The World Wasn't So Wonderful Back Then, With Segregated Rule In The South. But We Were Never Hopeless And We Never Despaired Because We Had Adults Out There Struggling With Us, Being There For Us, And Buffering Us.

When I Started Out As An Activist, The Issues Were Much Clearer. There's Advantage To The New Media, But On The Other Hand, You Miss The Ability To Frame An Issue That You Had When There Were Just Three Tv Networks: Cbs, Nbc, And Abc. So The Whole World Could See The Same Police Dogs. The Same Bull Connor And His White Tank. Now You've Got Narrow-casting. The Media Is All Fragmented. It's So Hard To Get People To Focus In A Sustained Way.

Luckily, I Had Incredible Parents Who, When They Saw A Problem, Didn't Say, "why Doesn't Somebody Do Something?" They Would Say, "why Don't We Do Something?".

[martin Luther ] King Didn't Pick His Leadership Position. Most Movements Are Not Started By Single People.

You'd Better Stay Determined, Because That's How Our Ancestors Got Us Where We Are.