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To stand with you, iechl your father s presence with us. thank you. whenever i say rabbi abraham heshel to those whon know the movement they say that is the story we have to continue to tell. that it was a movement of all faiths and people. yes it was. my father felt very deeply moved by the chance to be here. he felt that the march had an experience of holiness for him. as you said he felt his legs were praying. that was extraordinary. but i think also selma did something for the jewish people. it affirmed prophetic judaism. so we came here to selma now to celebrate and say thank you to the civil rights movement because you saved our souls as jews you gave us back our judaism in many ways. that notion of a prophetic religious practice i heard the president echo what is a long tradition within african-american largely christian protestant tradition as well but it is not ....

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