Champions of freedom. And we invite neighborhood after neighborhood, family after family, individual defenders of freedom, to join us in that fight where we understand that there is no division in terms of the appreciation of that right on the basis of color or class or anything. That is your natural right. Thank you. Thank you, professor. I want to introduce to you bishop garland hunt, a governor appointee to Georgia State pardon and paroles. And bishop, i believe youre going to give us a perspective on the community, when you deal with the experiences of transitions of people back into communities with high crime. Yes. Well, i came into this the way i came into this, of course, my background was in law. I graduated from howard university. Being from atlanta, georgia, that was the hub of the Civil Rights Movement. So i watched what was taking place in terms of a young boys death. And my heart sought change. As i came to an understanding of law and how things concerned justice, and as
Writers, especially on the sports pages, use that title. Prize. The and i always say to people, fact, it know, in song. From an old gospel comes from the church. Gospel song says keep your eyes on the prize, hold on, hold on, i know the one thing i did right was the day i started hold on. And they say, really . From the gospel . To all of youg today is, as we talk about as we talk about the allng spirit, i hope that of you understand that you give up. Ver even to be considered. About thehis is all day you started to fight. Today. About this is about using that 50 of triumph as fuel to boost Community Action to now new standards, to new excellence, to new abilities in need and in the to turn away from all naysayers, all the questioners, because youre too busy, because guess what youve got your eyes on the prize. Thank you very much. [applause] ten Years Program is old now and to mark a decade of conversations, were featuring one interview from each year of the series over this holiday s
Case, to determine how long they stay in prison it might be five years, it might be three whatever the case is, you have to make a decision based on the crime and what the potential is for them to recommitment. When i looked at these determinations, a large part of it was the weapon involved in the crime. So it could be a simple drug case that may have been a situation where someone was actually not actually involved in a violent offense but they happened to have a weapon in the car. Or during the process of the crime, they had a concealed weapon with them. So therefore, immediately the crime itself escalated in terms of what the penalty would be. And so even in our determinations for a person for parole, we had to look at very clearly whether or not there was weapons. As a matter of fact, because we have such a large prison populations, we even had examiners that would look over the case and we made our decisions initially by file. If there was a weapon, there was a star, an asterisk
And when people say to me nothing has checked. I say come dalk in my scooz. We talk with jonathan rider, isabelle wilkerson, and clarence jones. The march was nmy view, the culminn ofio 100 years of frustration and despair. 1963 began with the centennial, the 100th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation. And that means that when these people came together, those quarter of a Million People came together, they were in some ways representing all the hopes and dreams that had idea yt to be fulfull fulfilled. Rose the 50th anniversary of the march on washington next. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose we begin with john lewis. He is a congressman from georgia, a democrat. He was one of the big six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement andrmanaif the student nonviolent committee. This year, 2013, marks the 50th anniversary of the historic march on washington. On that day in august, lewis was one of only 10 speakers
Jones. The march was nmy view, the culmination of 100 years of frustration and despair. 1963 began with the centennial, the 100th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation. And that means that when these people came together, those quarter of a Million People came together, they were in some ways representing all the hopes and dreams that had idea yt to be fulfull fulfilled. Rose the 50th anniversary of the march on washington next. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose we begin with john lewis. He is a congressman from georgia, a democrat. He was one of the big six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement and chairman of the student nonviolent committee. This year, 2013, marks the 50th anniversary of the historic march on washington. On that day in august, lewis was one of only 10 speakers who took to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He was just 23 years old. John lewis remains the last speaker still living. He has n