exist. the question is, is there a generation where too many people are not having that inspirational moment. i mean, i grew up in the world war ii generation. there's a reason why that generation -- my father had an eighth-grade education. he left work because he was overfanned. he became a bank examiner. we had a house in the suburbs. i was part of a whole generation in the '50s that moved up together. why? there was full employment in world war ii, there was the g.i. bill of rights, an income tax that was passed. there was a sense of commitment at that point to bringing that generation going. that's eroded. it started eroding in the '70s and the '80s for the middle class and the poverty. it doesn't mean you always have these wonderful people that come up, but how many people with talent are not being realized? lincoln used to -- haunted about a person of a poem who had great talent and was in an unmarked grave because he never had that chance. >> all those realities are true. >> very quickly, think that as you hear dr. king's speech 50 years ago, yes, it was of hope, but it was pointed at what we had to fight. he talked about governors whose