have one standard in terms of equal protection under the law and equal opportunity. and we cannot do that without enforcement of laws and in many ways, also prodding a lot of community residents to take advantages of them and push forward. so i think it s both. but the ferguson report shows us there is systemic unfairness that has to be confronted. but at the same time we must take advantage of those doors that are open and push forward. and i think that we re seeing a continued isolation that both sides need to not accept and, in fact, find ways to aggressively come together. but i think that when we start mislabeling activists or those that are conservative then we don t have the kind of coming together that will solve the problem. ferguson should have taught us those act visivists were right. they were right to raise the
equal treatment promised to them almost a century before. what they did here will reverberate through the ages. not because the change they want was preordained, not because their convict wayvictory was complete but because they proved that nonviolent change is possible. that love and hope can conquer hate. the speech ended up running for more than 30 minutes covered quite a bit of ground, president obama addressing the recent department of justice. reporter: on the ferguson police department, the report that came out just last week. just this week i was asked whether i thought the department of justice s ferguson report shows that with respect to race little has changed in this country. and i understood the question. the report s narrative was sadly familiar