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To make a film focusing on mr. armstrong. i can tell you that the nerdland crew has been passing around the dvd in our offices. there was a lot of crying and tearfulness and all that sort of thing. tell me how you got interested in mr. armstrong as a foot soldier. >> this is actually my first film, but as we were heading into the election of 2008, i started to think about those things who really brought us to this day, those who paved the way. in particular, the foot soldiers, the unsung heroes, the thousands of nameless men, women and children who marched and integrated the schools and sat at...

Thing. would you compare the status of a relationship and how it is recognized officially by a state to little children being blown up in birmingham -- let me finish. i always say this comparison between what african-americans struggled with for 300 years and what gay and lesbians are struggling with now. would you compare those two things? or to tearing the flesh off of african-americans because they only want to be able to eat at the same lunch counters, go to the same schools, ride in the front of buses. would you compare those morally? and this offends john heilemann, i can tell by the way...

Same-sex marriage on the ballot this fall, in the hands of the people. >> governor christie then went on to explain why he thinks this law passed by the legislature should be vetoed by him and put to a referendum instead. watch. >> the fact of the matter is that i think people would have been happy to have a referendum, you know, on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets in the south. >> seriously? i mean, yeah, some people would have been happy to put african-american civil rights up for a popular vote in the south, but the people who would have been happy with that were n...

People. >> governor christie then went on to explain why he thinks this law passed by the legislature should be vetoed by him and put to a referendum instead. watch. >> the fact of the matter is that i think people would have been happy to have a referendum, you know, on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets in the south. >> seriously? i mean, yeah, some people would have been happy to put african-american civil rights up for a popular vote in the south, but the people who would have been happy with that were not the people who were sitting in at the lunch counters, if you...

>> governor christie then went on to explain why he thinks this law passed by the legislature should be vetoed by him and put to a referendum instead. watch. >> the fact of the matter is that i think people would have been happy to have a referendum, you know, on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets in the south. >> seriously? i mean, yeah, some people would have been happy to put african-american civil rights up for a popular vote in the south, but the people who would have been happy with that were not the people who were sitting in at the lunch counters, if you know wh...