The ceremony is one hour and 15 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, please members of the United States house of representatives and the members of the United States senate and the speaker of the United States house of representatives. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the United States house of representatives, the honorable john boehner. [applause] that afternoon and welcome to the United States gavel. Congress is celebrating the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. Frederickt proves douglass was right when he said if there is no struggle, there is no progress. Among the begins between his , for little lights standout. It was three weeks in a day after the march on washington, was inluther king jr. Birmingham, alabama. Sermonize,there to he was there to eulogize to make sense of the sunday morning murder of young addie mae collins, Denise Mcnair, carole. Obertson, and Cynthia Wesley the innocent blood of these may well serve as a redemptive force. What may have been discomfo