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someone has taken a young man, hung him in a tree. who would do something this hideous? >> michael donald was an innocent good samaritan, not a thug. >> the mobile police department just didn't want to believe that mobile would still have klan in it. but they did. >> that's why we kept marching and protesting, letting them know we were going to take this lion down. >> the admitted klansmen turned to action as the words, guilty of capital murder, sank in. >> it was the first time since at least the early 1900s that a white had been sentenced to death for a crime committed against a bl...

Sight back. and when i just let it go, that's when i started to feel better. >> these stories of black forgiveness are character lessons. but the character lesson is not, let us ask black people to serially forgive, but rather, let us challenge ourselves to not engage in unforgivable behavior. >> this is a portion of my father's closing statement from the civil trial. it was michael donald on march 21st, 1981. but who will it be tomorrow? unless you speak very loudly and very clearly to send that message throughout the country, who will it be tomorrow? what should your verdict be? obviously, w...

How long must america count on the bottomless well of black people's forgiveness? >> i was angry. i was angry for a long time. i just had to forgive them because it won't-- we weren't going to bring the girls back. it wasn't going to bring my sight back. and when i just let it go, that's when i started to feel better. >> these stories of black forgiveness are character lessons. but the character lesson is not, let us ask black people to serially forgive, but rather, let us challenge ourselves to not engage in unforgivable behavior. >> this is a portion of my father's closing statement from the...

It's a good indication that person would be comfortable lying about big things. that's a basic character lesson you learn from fables that are read to you before you go to preschool. how do we adapt that as american citizens to a situation where somebody in a very important position of responsibility is plainly comfortable lying even about life-threatening category 5 hurricane emergencies? it's just the situation we have never, ever, ever, ever been in before. we don't have rules. we don't have -- we don't even have casual rules of thumb for how you deal -- for how you make it right. in some c...

About little things. there is a possibility that person will be comfortable lying about big things, too. it's a basic character lesson you learn from fables that are read to you before you go to preschool. how do we adapt that as american sit accepts now to a situation where somebody in a very important position of responsibility is plainly comfortable lying even about life-threatening category 5 hurricane emergencies? it's the kind of situation we've just never, ever, ever been in before, so we don't have rules. we don't have even -- we don't have casual rules of thumb for how you deal with s...