i went to was 1980 in boston. my wife and i were in graduate school. we didn t have much money. my wife and i shared a room with price. [laughter] i said that in the right order. [laughter] and i don t even remember who the president was in 1980, i tried to go online and i couldn t find out. maybe we should put past presidents on the website. and then i thought, i don t need to talk much about price because everybody knows who price is. and we had no idea who people were the first time we went. there were three has of us three of us from the university of washington, and none of the faculty was there. we had a raft of economic store historians but nobody was there. ,rice and i and my wife terri it was like being on survivor. we were on this island. the hpa does a better job taking care of grad students. but i realize there is a bunch of you who know who price is, but you really don t know. but thened to do that, when i thought back about presidential addresses, the next y
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 you re too busy, because guess what you ve got your eyes on the prize. thank you very much. [applause] ten years program is old now and to mark a decade of conversations, we re featuring one interview from each year of the series ove
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 st
due, for china it is almost one but that is going to james. change. not all this is sustainable none of this is sustainable. the radical position is that we can boycott and we do that against her know that was catching dolphions. reject a lot of practices because women said we are not buying it. i do not want to be responsible for killing dolphins, period. that we go, the more educated we are, women, vote with your dollars. thank you very much. [applause] up next on c-span, journalists discussing religion and the supreme court. a conversation on crime and guns from the group connecticut black republicans and conservatives. and later, the renewable energy summit with discussions on climate change, water shortages, biodiversity, and large-scale farming. on the next washington journal, kevin on year-end strategies to prepare for filing your 2014 taxes and tax provisions taking effect next year. deeperwill talk with woods of usa today on college sports and efforts to unio
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 you re 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 boy s death. and my heart sought change. as i came to an understanding of law and how things concerne