The tv this weekend and every weekend on cspan2. Good evening everyone. Thank you for being here with us and im certain this will be a riveting conversation and easier to say that word than it is to spell it because i couldnt figure out to spell it. And president of the National Museum i welcome you here this evening for this book talk on ms. Alice Marie Johnsons book. I hope you had an opportunity to get it and if not, i believe we are selling it and she will be doing a book signing a couple things i wanted to mention for i introduce to you [inaudible] who will introduce ms. Johnson. You know, our hope here at the museum is that each time you come here you learn something. That will educate and inform and hopefully we are encouraging you to act in some way. I will not tell you what to do but we want to encourage you to do something. Every one of us has enough the exact same thing but all the people that we chronicle on the walls of the National Civil Rights Museum have and none of those folks had anything within themselves different than what we have within ourselves. The difference simply is that they activated them. We hope that when you leave here this evening you will have learned something and gotten new information and that you will be encouraged to act in some way. Last year in 2018 we commemorated the 50th assassination of doctor king and the title of his final book and we continued to ask the question where do we go from here. One of the things we did was commissioned a study on poverty and Shelby County in memphis over the course of 50 years of the study was done in connection with the university of memphis with doctor de la vega did the research and one of the elements of this record report focused on incarceration. Nowhere did we hear doctor king talk about incarcerations. We do not hear him talk about it because it wasnt an issue. It was not an issue. There was parity between white incarceration rates in black incarceration rates and until the 80s. It was in the 80s through the 90s, early 90s that they saw an incredible spike in incarceration rates in the africanamerican community. All parity was lost so summer in 1960 we had about. 70 or. 7 of the white population incarcerated in. 72 of the black community incarcerated and by the time we reached 1990 we had 4 of whites incarcerated and 2. 7 of African Americans incarcerated and what drove that was the war on drugs. Here we sit now with the residual frankly, of the war on drugs and while i do believe the first act signed into law last year was certainly a good first step weve got to enact that first step and then we got to walk. You cant just take one step but move forward. This evening we will hear a story of one individual who became almost a poster child in a lot of ways for some of the wrongs that are occurring in sentencing in our country, ms. Alice Marie Johnson. I will not talk about her but will introduce the manager of Community Outreach who will introduce faith morris and ms. Alice Marie Johnson. Thank you. [applause] good evening, everyone. Thank you so much for coming out today. This is such an important day for all of us. Alice Marie Johnson earned National Attention when reality star and business mogul Kim Kardashian west advocated for her release from prison. Johnson had been serving a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole for her involvement in a nonviolent drug case. She was reunited with her family when President Donald Trump ran for granted her clemency on jun. For years alice Marie Johnson live date, life without a criminal record and was a wife and a mother but at the emotionally or after any emotional and financial lead. In her life left her with few options and she turned to crime as a way to pay off her mounting debt so convicted in 1996 for her nonviolent involvement in eight memphis coping Traffic Organization alice received a life sentence under the mandatory sentence this was her first and only crime, first and only conviction. During her nearly 22 years of incarceration she accomplished what has been termed as extraordinary rehabilitation and received numerous awards. Today johnson is an icon for the criminal Justice Reform movement and a servant who embraces gratitude for her faith and freedom with a fiery passion to pay it forward. On may 201st johnson released her memoir, after life. In her book she recalls all of the first experiences through activism and providing portraits of mass incarceration prices and linking social justice to spiritual faith she makes an article that transcends tribal politics and the book has already received rave reviews and premier reviews and the major field Production Company is set for a movie based on her life story. [applause] i want to make this a little personal for me. Ms. Alice Marie Johnson was born and raised in the little town of mississippi which is now the Fastest Growing theater in the u. S. And i was raised a few doors down from her and in my family we were very close. Her mother and my grandmother were best friends and my grandmother did her hair and all the girls and so miss alice, ill be honest when this happened, we were all shocked we did not know and sometimes you never know the story what someone is doing and we do think [inaudible] but the important part even when it happens we all supported miss alice Marie Johnson who we called marie and we supported her because we knew something had to go wrong in order for this to happen. And for me so let me fastforward a little bit and then as an adult as i got older i began to fight for freedom for my brother for a nonviolent in chicago and then i would be up again in washington dc and they were fighting for her and i was fighting for my brother. Weve been to the white house together and other places together and im excited about what she is about to share with you today. I will not take up any more ti time. Miss alice Marie Johnson if you will please take the stage and then we will have faith who will sit and have a conversation with alice Marie Johnson and faith is our chief marketing and external affairs officer. [applause] okay. We are so excited to be here to do this today. We look forward to it and have had a zillion calls with folks trying to find out when shes coming and what can we do with her while shes here. Many of you know her well i met some that worked with her, families and friends and those that have read her story. Miss alice. This is kim. This is kim . How you doing . I cannot believe we did it. We did it. We did it. You dont know . Oh my gosh, alice, you are out. [screaming] im sorry, i thought you knew. The news just broke. President just called me and said that you were out and signed the papers and released it to the press. Everything. You are coming home. [applause] i know you relived this but i want to step back just a little bit. Who is alice Marie Johnson . Alice Marie Johnson is a woman who made mistakes in her life and by the grace of god i was given a Second Chance in life where anyone who knows my story that have seen it unfold knows that this is not an accident that has taken place with me. I now know that everything i went through, every tear that was shed, every denial i received was not by happenstance but i was destined for this. God had a purpose so that my faith would be the face that would be the catalyst for chan change. [applause] i think he knew what he was doing when he was picking you. There are several faces but you had so many distinctions since this has happened but tell me how that moment felt. Every time i see that moment i tear up. Even though it was all over the news i had so many letdowns and so many times my family thought we were right at the edge and we just knew that this was it and i thought i was already going to receive clemency when the whole clemency project 2014 happened but even before then emotions after motions with laws changed and i would fight again in my daughter emptied her bank account and getting ready to buy a house she had saved and had a good job. To buy her first home and she just was overwhelmed and said i want my mommy home. She took every time she had and hired another set of attorneys to try to fight for my appeal. All of that down the drain and it was a very large sum of money. We had to pick ourselves back up and keep on fighting. That did not just happen but that was instilled in me. I was raised in a very strong Christian Family and born in 1955, the same year that rosa parks refused to give up her seat on that bus in alabama. The same year that emmett tills body was put on display when he was murdered in mississippi and was put on display. 1965 was a big year, the year i was propelled into this world and it would be those same two states and also the city of memphis that would play a major role in my life, the city where Martin Luther king was assassinated and lost his life. This became the same city that i would also lose life as i knew it where i would be convicted on halloween 1996 and sentenced to life for 25 years without the possibility of parole for the first time nonviolent offense where a picture was painted of im going to say it [inaudible] when actually i was a woman struggling, a mother of five children and became what is a telephone mule where i relayed messages by phone and under the Conspiracy Theory halloween, trick or treat, thats what was whispered in my ear that date by the agent was trick or treat. Trick or treat. Thats the last thing i heard walking out of that courtroom getting ready to begin my sentence. It would be mississippi would be the place of my birth. Mississippi would be the place of what they felt would be in on executed sentence of death. Alabama would be the place where i would be set free. [applause] nothing just happens. While i was incarcerated i had some choices. Each one of us have choices in life to make. I made the choice first of all i would never give up i hope to never allow someone to strip me of hope. You could pronounce the sentence on me of life but you could not take my life unless i chose to let you have it. I chose that no matter where i was i would want to celebrate the gift of life and do whatever i could do to make the place whatever place that i was a better place and i began my first year of incarceration in dublin, california. I received a next of punishment and i was sent 1500 miles away from my family in memphis and mississippi so it would make it very difficult for them to even come see me so it was a little saltshaker of cruelty that was put into my sentence. But, as it would be, a prison was built and i want to back up a little bit that while i was in dublin i was able to fight for change for women and found out because i became a clerk in bt because while i was at fedex i saw some of the people that i work with and fedex with all the employees and other people at work with your that while i was at fedex at one point i was a manager in computer operations and a manager and Customer Support and as a clerk at that facility i found that the women who had longer sentences were being deprived of the opportunity to take computer classes because they said what are you taking them for . Youre not going home anytime soon. How did you tell a person not to hope. How do you tell a person not to prepare for a future. Immediately i began that fight and i found i could fight and win and use that the gift that has been put in my hand and that was a ten and i started writing and had much favor with the warden and i was able to change and make a policy that affect other prisons to where they had to allow a 30 of people with long sentences to have access to Educational Opportunities and to take computer classes and prepare for a future outside of prison and a good thing they did because laws changed and some of those very women who i was incarcerated with were able to go home more prepared when i left there. Thank you. It would be a dublin i pick up my pen and started using the gift i had to write. As i started writing i thought lives being transformed literally the day they shipped me away from dublin there were many tears that were said because i had brought things to that prison that they had never seen before and i was sent to [inaudible] which was the president that was recommended i be sent to anyway because i was told i needed to go to a facility when i was being sentenced to take care of my mental needs because women receiving a life sentence would probably need some mental help. I put this in my book because i told my family this immediately i said that shell lose her mind before i lose my. [laughter] i went to [inaudible] and once again i found women who were in need of something that was i cant explain what i walked into because that was the place where not only was it the only medical facility for women and so just imagine you are already in a place separated from your family so why are you in a place separated sickness overtaking you and some of them sickness unto death. Opportunity, not obstacles for me. I became a hostage volunteer for women who died in prison because i did not want them to die alone and i felt miraculous things happening when i realized that somebody saw them and cared about them. Organized and coordinated the first ever Special Olympics in any prison and i received [applause] i received a National Honor especially coordinator of the year award and they came in on the Special Olympics to present me with that and i started writing even more and women started realizing what they can do and i started choreographing and putting on huge productions and it became my goal that when women came to to see one of my Theatrical Productions that they would put that moment for that hour and they were no longer in prison. It was beautiful and i even have pictures of some of the things not in the book that i was blessed to receive some of the pictures, someone retired and gave me the pictures they had taken and she blessed me by doing that but i started choreographing dance and the place i wrote became famous in prison. [applause] the outside public started getting tickets to come in to a prison to see what i had written and what production i was putting on now so the place i wrote were some of the largest or was the largest single inmate participation programs in the prison and even now i hear from women who tell me how life changed you that was for them. Artists, dancers, singers, people who all of a sudden someone was telling them you can do good and look how good you can do this. Some people just need somebody to believe in them and somebody to have faith in them they can do something different. I did a lot of other things to lift women up and became a mentor for the women and every time there was that only did i do things for services but in every Single Department from food service to psychology to religious services, education, there was nothing that was done in that prison on a grand scale that my hands were not in. When women had tragic news and their families i cant tell you the number of times they would ask them who do you want us to send four and they would sing bring ms. Alice. Even women who do not even know me but had seen might walk you can be anything. I could write about anything and pretend to be something but i got witnesses. I see someone here i was with in [inaudible] who could witness what she saw me able to commerce in the present and the respect given to meet not only by the women but by the staff members. While, i also was at carswell and from that point on i started writing for conferences and became known as woman who was writing letters and encouragement from inside and as i say in my book im not trying to i would not dare compare myself to the apostle paul but the gift of the lord has given me i was able to use it to reach beyond prison bars and reach into and so into the lives of people who were free on the outside but not free on the inside. They asked me to pray for them and estimate their advice for the situation they were going through and even now as i was coming out i received letters with an inbox or messagebox and i did not know what that was but a lot of people were in boxing me and i did not know it was there. But i received messages from people who i impacted. When a new prison was built i stayed there 15 years and you just imagine i was told i would only leave prison as a corpse. That i would take my last dying breath in prison. Do you think that was a recipe for hope . It was not a recipe for hope. For sure it was not. In fact from coming into prison they set me straight to psychology so i could get on medication so that i be able to deal with what is going on and every time i have to go to psychology i would tell them i dont need anything and they say how do you do and what do you do to keep yourself okay . In fact, people would watch me because they Say Something is wrong with that lady. [laughter] they say shes Walking Around or lying about her life sentence but they even want to have their families check out my case to see if i really did have a life sentence or not because it was too strange for them to see joy but i dont have normal joy because man did not give me that joy i had in my heart. [applause] i want to show another clip and its clear prison did not break you. Im feeling no handcuffs. Nothing on me. Im free to hug my family. Im free to live life. Im free to start over. This is the greatest day of my life. My heart is bursting with gratitude for what is taking place and what has happened to me today. [applause] you told us a little bit about prison whos gotten their book already . Did you just get it today . Has anyone read the book yet . One of the things about this book because there is so much to you for the way you talk about your beginning what about those [inaudible] bills . I was born, bred and raised in mississippi and i think i had a [inaudible] to put on me soon as i can stand up straight and not wobble but i came from a family of Humble Beginnings my parents started off as sharecroppers and i call them mr. Abernathy in the book but he was some kind of man. My parents were tracked many times when told they had made enough because they wanted to leave that type of life and so i am a mother come up with a plan to escape that type of life. You wouldve thought we were living in slavery times she had to cook food and sell it secretly while my father was working on a house that they had bought in olive branch. At five years old when i was five years old they were able to get out of there sharecropping environment and move to olive branch. The one thing that i can say about my parents they did not just talk about faith, they lived faith. I thought it demonstrated in our lives. We do not have a lot financially but what we did have was love and togetherness and family unity and i would not trade that for anything. My mother was very active and my father in the civil rights movement. My mother was, as a culture, a woman ahead of her time. She did not meet strangers and she had friends because back then it was mainly black and white. My mama had almost as many white friends she did black friends. I think that plated inside me to look at people just as people and not to look at them as black or white or from this country or that country but my mother embraced all people and the champion for the black communities or White Communities in olive branch, mississippi. She has so much respect that my mother and father with the first grand marshals in olive branch, mississippi and she eventually got her own restaurant six of nine children, eight girls, one boy and we lived in a tight space but i did not even know it was tight. Honestly, i never even thought we were poor. We never missed a meal and had really good food and always had close and had a piano in the living room and always singing, always singing, everyone in the family could sing but me. [laughter] but she can dance. [laughter] we saw some Singing Sisters and nieces and this one dance. [laughter] we wont do that today. I will tour these heels off and put on some gospel music. Ive always been a praise dancer. That was my way i demonstrated that i was singing in prison. In the cotton fields its not you feel like it was alone because to make the day go faster we would break out singing in the cotton fields. If you can sing while cotton rolls are scratching up your hands i learned to sing and its pretty hard to cry and sing at the same time. So, even that lesson carried me in prison. When i find myself getting so down sometimes because every day was on a good day for me. Every day is not a joyful or i do not try to sing but i did not always get stuck in that place. No one wants to come to a pity party. The other thing i found is that by encouraging other women i literally encouraged myself. When they come to ask me to pra [applause] when they would come and asked me to pray for them i was really praying for myself. I started feeling my burden lifted up and so just staying not focused on my conviction on my situation really only and something to help me get through that time i had to forgive and i could not hold on to that bitterness because forgiveness and forgiveness is a rotten soul and the person you think youre holding and being so angry and holding on onto that forgiveness theyve gone on about their life Walking Around angry and theyre not even thinking about you so why would i allow anyone to control my life with unforgiveness. That freed me, too. Dont think i felt like i [inaudible] i was prayed for them and i understand i it became a reality to me. But fake it until you make it. There is another piece that your parents made a mark on you because you were respectful the whole time and at the very beginning if you have not gone past the first paragraph of the book she tell you very quickly how she was surrounded by folks that were convicted. I will not call them criminals. Convicted. You talked about it being rude to ask why they were there. Why was that . I wanted to meet people everyone in prison was there for something. It did not matter if they were in their pain or debt but i wanted to meet them just as i saw them in that moment and in that time and i dont want to talk about your case and i dont care about your case. You are a human being and i dont know that the circumstance why youre here and dont know what drove you to commit a crime but its not about even myself and im not trying to say that i did not commit a crime because i did but it certainly did not deserve that crime. So many of the women i met were there single mothers like i was a single mother not making it excuses but have rehabilitated their life or on the past or maybe there were buck wild and needed someone to some role model in their life so i never wanted to judge anyone by their crime and wanted to give them a clean page, clean slate with me and say that youre free to be who you were created to be. We also wanted to have ms. Alice here in the museum. One, because you know what we preach and talk about an whats going on in society and what we can do to make it better but you also are drawn to this place. Yes, very much. This is chapter three. Demonstrating that we can stick together and demonstrating that we are all tied in a single garment of destiny and if one black person suffers or one black person is down we are all down and thats what doctor Martin Luther king junior said and i dont want to say yes, maam to you anymore. I told my mama one afternoon that got their attention and we children never crossed our parents back then at least in my family kids obeyed their parents and that was the end of the discussion. My mother was intrigued more than anything else and why is that, marie . In the jim crow south it was normal for black people to address why people by looking down as they said yes, maam and no, sir. Until i was five years old i heard my mom and dad respond to the white abernathys in this way and hated the difference they had to show. When i explain this to my mom to my surprise agreed with me and i never said yes, maam to anyone ever again and as i grew up and became known as someone who stood up for various causes and when my mothers brother from chicago visited they were amazed my fighting spirit and that the polite way of saying i was buck wild. Watch this, my uncle said to another uncle. He pushed me down and i stared into the dirt and he shoved me me lose my breath and i felt pain in my chest. Immediately i felt tears welling up inside my eyes but i knew i was not going to give my uncle the satisfaction of knowing i had been hurt. I jumped right back up to look at this gal. He hit me in my chest again and i had to catch my breath and jumped back up again. Look how her shoulders were squared like she was going to head back one said laughing. They decided to teach me how to throw a punch. Its a skill that never showed any of my other siblings. You might need this one day they told me as a tommy how to box. But dont you tell them we taught you this. Even tommy how to arm wrestle. I did all sorts of crazy stuff they told me was cool but the biggest guilt i learned that my interaction was my uncle was how to swallow back my tears. I got a lot more confident when i took on sisters in school who double teamed every one. I wanted back in those days im surprised those fights never made it into my public record. [laughter] i assume thats because my teachers respected my mother so much. Once i even fought for my brother in an epic battle that ended at our house. Julius, my only brother, was in our neighborhood was being bullied and since he was with his friends he decided to stand up against them with all his friends ran off and i met julias fault all five guys himself before turning home and the bullies followed him into our yard. Big mistake. We sisters saw the fight from the window and could tell even from a distance that they had gotten julius eyes good. Before they knew it we all bailed out of our house with brooms and sticks like an army carrying swords and shields. I went out there and beat those boys using those fighting skills my uncle had taught me. We fought tooth and nail until we heard the door to our house plan. We all looked at the porch only to see my normally quiet daddy standing there with a shotgun and he shot that gun into the air and bullets scattered like cockroaches. I learned a lesson i learned the lesson right then and there that even if our friends abandoned us my family stuck together in hard times. [applause] this is a great time for your family to stand up because anywhere alice is is a reunion. [laughter] so, stand up, family. [applause] i will be a couple more things because ive got something funny in here. After i said that my family stuck together in hard times i want to say this my family stuck with me the whole 21 years and seven months. In six days i was in prison. [applause] this one plus i learned not to sit back and watch injustice occur. This is so important to me. I read that passage because i want to tell you about how i probably became an activist. In 1968 when Martin Luther king was killed it was a very personal thing and i did not know Martin Luther king personally but it was personal and i have learned most of the adult stuff by eavesdropping all the time. Peter would talk about that on the party line and back then children cannot sit in the room when grown folks was talking. You had to stay in your place but every time i could id sneak back in high by the chair so i could keep up on the news of what was going on. Or, like peter, id pick up the phone and listen on the party line because thats how we get to know whats going on. Im going to read just this portion right here about Martin Luther king. I want you to know that i talk about this because this is the era i grew up in where we were artificially separated by race and by color. Martin luther king had a dream that one day that our children would go to School Together and that we could sit in a room like this together and that dream has been fulfilled. I did not grow up hating white people. That sounds odd in todays polarized world especially since we lived through sharecropping and jim crow. The cost of my mama was revered by friends both black and white. She tommy to respect all people and above all to be filled with joy instead of bitterness but even we can escape the racial tension simmered with the late 1960s and cannot turn heads at injustice. My mamas friends dropped by at all hours to talk about how wrongly the sanitation workers would be entreated in the following month i heard my mama excitedly tell your friends the Martin Luther king jr. Himself had come to memphis to stand in solidarity with the workers. Over 25000 people gathered to hear him speak, the longest largest indoor gathering and it was right there in my own backyard across tennessee, mississippi border. I do not dare ask my mother if i could skip school but you Better Believe the message of Martin Luther king jr. Was felt that the area like an earthquake. He promised to return to memphis a few days later to lead a peaceful and nonviolent protest through the city. On the day of the scheduled protest a large snowfall blanketed the city which delayed his travel. However, on the rescheduled date march 28 an estimated 22000 students skipped school to demonstrate in a crowd erupted into violence. Though they tried to call up the devastation it was too late. They broke into downtown shots and police shot and killed a 16 yearold boy and to make matters worse police followed demonstrators into a Church Sanctuary where they released teargas and the mayor declared martial law as 4000 National Troops flooded the city and normally my mama did not talk to us directly about those issues but this was unavoidable and it was important for us to understand that she was upset as she walked to the house in the state of our community and out we were older she trusted us with conversation we got to hear her bent. Doctor king almost did not come back. He eventually decided it was important to come back to encourage memphis to have a nonviolent struggle for justice. His decision to return was controversial and this turned out to be the one that ultimately ended his life. As he got ready for dinner on april 4 just after 6 00 oclock he was shot and killed on the balcony at his motel. I was 13. A collective well. Memphis in the midsouth area and my parents cried as the Television News reporters talk about his assassination in my siblings and i found myself crying not really realizing the bank to of what had just occurred and people came to the house to grieve with my parents and this time we were allowed to be in the middle of the conversation and everybody talking and greeting and what will become of us now. Nothing seems certain for black people in america at the time. He was received as a liberator and his death was one of the most terrible events we had ever experienced. Our helplessness settled and what would happen next friend continued . Who will lead us . In my mind a new civil war had broken out in the news i felt bombs going off the streets with violence, looting, teargas and this was not my community and was going up in flames. In a way, i got radicalized during those Tumultuous Times and i decided i would join the black panthers and i is an idea i tossed out to my mother. If you quit school and become a black panther you would just be quitting school she said. There is no group to join and you better stop that crazy talk right now. She was right. Since we lived in rural mississippi i have to go to memphis to be a part of the revolution and plus, my mama would never gotten away with me quit school. Ive always been passionate but the seas of activism took root in my heart after doctor king was shot and killed. Though kings death was a National Tragedy it felt personal to me. For me to be here tonight speaking to you at the National Civil rights movement, national Rights Museum is like a dream come true for me to walk in the same footsteps and i went out there what was the Lorraine Motel balcony the place where he last stood in the place where he breathed his last breath and i had im not kidding, i stood there for a minute and i thought about the man who had changed my life as he stood there and here i am staying here being called also a catalyst for change. What an honor. [applause] lets and with that last clip. Spirit i was rescued from a life sentence. I served almost 22 years in prison and Kim Kardashian west and my attorney went to the white house, met with President Trump and presented my case before him and he had mercy upon me and granted my clemency. My release has given hope to so many other families that possibly their families will be restored and thats what i want to see. I hope my story was humanized and will help people in prison. Second chances are so important to bring people back home to their families. [inaudible] [applause] for those of you who have traveled to dc that picture you just off of their is all over dc. My picture is hanging up there then the screen in the airports, either my picture or my daughters picture or mine together were at every bus stop and all over the airports can you imagine getting off the plane and you walk into yourse yourself. [laughter] all i can say is this, look at god. Look at god. [applause] what now . What next . Next, i made a promise and i cannot wait for you to read the book. Please let me know what you think about it. But when i left prison the women who i left behind and i Say Something about the earthquake here but it sounded like a really quick so when i came down the stairs when they said three hours after the president had signed it i heard over the loudspeaker alice Marie Johnson returned to rd with all your property and you could hear this big scream that went up. There were three buildings, 1600 women were house there and it was like vibrating the walls. Everybody was screaming. When i walked down the stairs every single window women were in the windows screaming, crying my name thing ms. Alice, dont forget about us. As i walked, the sound got louder and louder and it sounded like the biggest football stadium with all of these thousands and hundreds of the fans cheering at the same time. That was a moment for me and when i turned and grabbed my chest and i made a motion after in my heart to them that that noise was deafening and the ground was shaking under my feet. As i walked to r d which is the same place i came into that prison and i was leaving out of the door and got into the vehicle with my brother and daughter and granddaughters and they saw the same thing and when we passed by the camp which is the lower security facility that houses about 250 women every woman, every staff member was outside screaming my name and crying and some falling down on the ground shouting my name telling me they love me and said please, dont forget about me. Thats what ive been doing. You saw me run across that road many on that video to reunite with my family but what you have not seen is how i have been running for the people the light left behind. Not just for the people i saw but the unseen, women and men and so its a platform its been given to me and ive been interested with this and i never wanted to be famous but i wanted to be free. I think that maybe god himself allowed me to be tried for the fire and tested my heart to see if i would be faithful over a little before he gave me much. [applause] that is what im doing. That is what im doing. Fighting for those who cant fight for themselves and i cant stop fighting, its been put inside of me that book that the fire is burning in my belly and i feel another book coming. Possibly. Possibly. I want to tell you this is one of my something that has just really touch me because sometimes when you doing things i do not do the things i did and present because i thought no one would notice me or anyone would be reading my story but i did it because it became my motto, if you can do good, do it. Thats it. If you can do good, do it. On march 8, on International Womens day, i was honored at the United Nations in new york. They honored for people, for women from around the world, african chief, a woman who from mexico and one from india and i was the only one selected from north america as a womans right defender. [applause] that moment i stood up at the state of the Union Address and everyone stood and was giving me a standing ovation i tried my best not to cry right there in public and i cannot help it because at that time not even a year before and you knew this thursday would be one year since i was set free, june 6, 1 year ago at that exact time i was standing up for count in prison and now im standing up to applause. Look at god. [applause] stand up with me. You can receive your applause here at the National Civil rights is young. Mac. Watch book tv for live coverage of the National Book festival. Saturday it starts at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. Coverage includes authors interviews with Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her book, my own words. The heartbeat of wounded knee. Child of the dream. Author of the british are coming and Thomas Malone founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book super mines. The National Book festival Live Saturday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. In the late 1850s americans generally trusted their congressman but did not trust congress as an institution nor did congress meant trust each other. By 1816 many times when routinely armed not because they were here to kill their opponents but out of fear that their opponents might kill them. Yale history professor and author Joanna Freeman will be a guest on indepth sunday from noon2 00 p. M. Eastern. Ms. Freemans latest book is the field of blood. Brother titles include the essential hamilton, hamilton and affairs of honor. Join our light conversation with your phone calls, tweets and facebook questions. Way to bring in Something Like evangelicalism or any other faith and then use that as a way to get votes, which seems like
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