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Work of my life and what we're talking about today is rooted in the very idea of america. the idea that nell ponder who graduated from clark atlanta captured in a single word. she was a teacher and a librarian. also an unyielding champion of voting rights. in 1963, when i was just starting college university after registering voters in mississippi, she was pulled off a bus, arrested and jailed where she was brutally beaten. in a cell next to her was fannie lou hammer. who described the beating this way, and i quote, i can hear the sounds of the licks and the horrible screams. they beat her. i ...

Pray and ask god to have mercy on those people. and nell ponder's friends visited her the next day. her face was badly swollen. she could hardly talk. but she managed to whisper one word. freedom. freedom. the only word she whispered. after nearly 250 years since our founding, that singular idea still echoes, but it's up to all of us to make sure it never fades. especially the students here. your generation. that just started voting. as there are those who are trying to take away that vote you just started to be able to exercise. but the giants we honor today who were your age when they made c...