standing on the right, and they were cheering. seemed like they were encouraging me to go on and go on. >> my heart was in my mouth all during john lewis' speech because he had to change it at the last minute. >> i did my best. i think it was a strong speech. >> we do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now. >> there was a deputy attorney general in the justice department, whose assignment was to get control of the sound system so that if the oratory got inflammatory, he would be able to cut the sound system off. of course, he never had to do that. [ applause ] >> the day went on and on and on. i thought to myself, you know, this gives me an opportunity to go and sit down and take maybe a brief nap. so i went and found myself a spot leaping up against one of