When the Birmingham movement happened, it just stunned me,.. I felt a tiny breath of something very powerful. It changed the whole direction of my life's interest.
Taylor Branch
Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.
effort enemies truth strangers eyes foreigners
We just get after 'em. It's the biggest game for both of us.
game
There's a tremendous tide of freedom that came out of the civil rights movement
rights movement freedom
powerful direction breath movement interest
He (Johnson) had an amazing spiritual quality about him
quality spiritual amazing
King considered himself, first and foremost, a prophet
prophet king
This era liberated everyone, if you look at the long span of history, beginning with white southerners. Until black people struggled for equal rights, white women couldn't serve on juries. Almost 30 states restricted service. That's so foreign to us today.
women rights people history today beginning black serve white southerners
The lessons that come from discovery of the Movement's story should point us forward.
story lessons discovery forward
John is trying to talk [the family] into giving up control.
control giving talk john
I don't really mind this although sometimes I get afraid of Willy. I get afraid of his temper. You never know what he's going to do.
temper mind afraid
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