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sharpton. he was with us in d.c. we have been rallying. we will continue to rally and lead up through the march on washington on august the 28th. i m going to be there with rev. so we haven t finished what we started. i m disappointed. we had the momentum. there was no reason for us to go back. i m going to be in d.c. for as the house brings forth hr-4, the john lewis voting rights advancement act. we know we have the votes in the house, and we believe it is going to pass on tuesday, but the real fight is going to be in the senate. that s why we need democrats to hold out, to continue to fight for democracy. so i share that frustration. we are down but we re hae not out. we will continue to press forward and get this federal legislation passed. i mean, rev, some of the calculation had to be that no one could have imagined that for all that, frankly, democrats got done voting rights wasn t going to be on the list. if it had been dealt with before any break, they might have gone home

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sometimes people are were asked to count the bars of soap or jelly beans in a jar. people in alabama stood in an unmovable line. high school principal, colleges professors, lawyers and doctors, were told they could not read or write well enough. the only time that someone could even attempt to register to vote in selma, alabama, were the first and third mondays of each month. we had to change that. when i spoke at the march on washington on august 28, 1963, i was 23 years old. i had all of my hair and a few pounds lighter. i said, one person, one vote. that day, when the march was all over, president kennedy invited

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the number of jelly beans in a jar. people in selma, alabama and other parts of the south stood in what i call an unmovable line. there were high school principals, college professors, lawyers and doctors were told they could not read or write well enough. the only time that someone could even attempt to register to vote in selma, alabama, were the first and third mondays of each month. we had to change that. and i spoke at the march on washington on august 28, 1963, i was 23 years old, had all of my hair and a few pounds lighter. i said one person, one vote. that day when the march was all over, president kennedy invited us down to the white house. he stood in the door of the oval

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let s talk about that. democratic congressman john lewis jaffe gentleman was a close friend of the reverend martin luther king jr. he stood with dr. king on the steps of the memorial 50 years ago during that historic march in washington. lewis, college student then, was one of the speakers. he says, king s speech and march changed history. some reflections now from congressman lewis p. we made some progress. we have come a distance. we still have a distance to go. we still have roles to travel dash roads to travel. a march for jobs and dpreem. hundreds and thousands and millions of our brothers and sisters with our jobs 50 years later. a quarter of a million people participated in the march on washington on august 28, 1963. for jobs and freedom. the reverend martin luther king jr. delivered a peach that helped to change race relations in america.

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