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Saying what he is saying about these young women. they are duly elected officials. they are elected by their people or their congressional district to serve as members of congress. you know we all come from some other place and it doesn't matter whether we are black or white or latino or asian american, native american who were the only people here when we go to here. it's just dead wrong and we must use everything in a most nonviolent way to say that it is wrong. it's not wrong for anyone in the white house, anyone in the congress, or anyone in america, it is wrong for them to tell people to ...

For human rights in america. martin luther king's strategy of nonviolent direct action inspired a wave of young activists to take up the cause. >> king was able to energize young ministers, young students. he set a tone of "let's come out of these cathedrals, let's come out of these offices, and let's do something in the streets." >> beginning in february 1960, in cities from greensboro to nashville, black students sat down at lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served. sit-ins introduced a new, more confrontational tactic to the movement that provoked white segregationists to ...

Racist. when they ask you to do that, you have the racist philosophy r committed to it and there has -- to see if you have the fortitude to talk them out of it. that's waste of time. number two, it means the person agrees with or defends or deflects from what is happening and that is a problem in another way. have you ever thought about how did this happen? in the slave states that left the union. two out of three families were not slave own oing families but they went along with it. not everybody has jim crowe. how did that hp happen? not everybody was putting hounds on people and turning peo...

Happening and that is problematb. have you ever thought about -- so it demmen straights the fact that about 1/3 were slave owners and therist were not. two out of three families were not slave own oing families but they went along with it. not everybody has jim crowe. not everybody was putting hounds on people and turning people away from stores and lunch counters. but the rest of the people went along with it. and the people who make the excuses, pretend they don't see, that it doesn't excuse, say that was a long time ago, which is a lie. jared kushner is a prime example

Told us the philosophy and discipline. and he kept saying respect and dignity and worth every human being. even if someone beat you. throw you in jail. the look them in the eye. and respect them. lawson's group began sit-ins at lunch counters in downtown nashville in early 1960. lewis and the other students filled the counters. tried to order food and then took whatever abuse was hurdle hurled at them. and the 20-year-old lewis was arrested for the first time in february 18960 his parent were shocked. >> lot of people of color were afraid of what could happen. he could die. they could lose the...