Some People Know Rosa Parks, They Know

What Sensible People Have Got To Do Is Not Simply Repeal The Affordable Care Act Without Any Alternative, But You've Got To Sit Down And Say It's Ok, What Are The Problems. How Do We Address It? How Do We Move To Universal Health Care? How Do We Lower Prescription Drug Costs? How Do We Make Sure That People Don't Have Outrageous Deductibles? You Just Don't Throw 20 Million People Off Of Health Insurance. You Don't Privatize Medicare.

I Remember Being At The Church A Few Hours After The Church Was Bombed In Birmingham, The 16th Street Baptist Church. It Was Very Hard And Very Difficult To Stand On That Corner Across The Street From The Church. Or To Go Mississippi And Search For The Three Civil Rights Workers Who Came Up Missing. There Is A Lot Of Trauma.

Young People Can Understand, And Must Understand, That We Had Success, We Had Failures, But We Never Gave Up. We Never Gave In. We Never Became Bitter. We Didn't Hate. We Continued To Press On. And That's What We're Saying: There Are Some Ups, There Are Some Downs, And When You're Not Down, You Must Have The Capacity And The Ability To Get Up And Keep Going.

I've Said It In The Past And I'll Say It Again Today: The Vote Is Precious; It's Almost Sacred.

Maybe, Just Maybe, There Should Be A Graphic Novel Dealing With The Contribution Of The Women Of The Civil Rights Movement, To Tell Their Story. The Pain, The Hurt. They Raised Their Children. Some Were Working As Maids, But When They Left Those Kitchens, Those Homes, They Made It To The Mass Meetings. And They Put Their Bodies On The Lines, Also.