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In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn't or couldn't pass the literacy test.

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You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.

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Listening to Dr. King on the radio inspired me. Coming under the influence of Jim Lawson inspired me to think that I, too, could do something.

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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it's real, and it cannot be denied.

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I don't understand it, how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam and cannot send troops to Selma, Alabama, to protect people whose only desire is to register to vote.

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If it hadn't been for that march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, there would be no Barack Obama as President of the United States of America.

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Selma was the turning point.

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Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made.

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Dr. King was one of the most inspiring human beings I ever met. He was such a warm, compassionate, and loving human being.

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There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: February 21st, 1940

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