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1965. where did that come from that he had that compass to be moved by what he believed the right thing was and to do the right thing? >> that's exactly right. and i talked to him about that, because i always admired him because of his early commitment to civil rights. it was a real risk for him, he put himself in physical danger supporting martin luther king in that march from selma to montgomery, and he told me it came from the army, in part. because when he was in the army he saw segregation up close, he was prevented from sanging out with some of his friends who happened to be black becaus...

They could not protect themselves or their families from indignity. so abolishnist kept rallying and within a few years of the war ending we passed two more amendments guaranteeing voting and birth right citizenship and equal protection under the law and still it wasn't enough. for another century we saw segregation in jim crow making a mockery of these amendments and we saw justice turn a blind eye to mobs with nooses slung over trees. we saw bullets and bombs terrorize generations. and yet through all of this the

Or from violence. and so abolitionists and freed men and women and radical republicans kept con joeling and rebel rousing, and within a few years of the war's end, we passed two more amendments guaranteeing vote rights, birthright citizenship, equal protection under the law and still it wasn't enough. for another century we saw segregation and jim crow make a mockery of these amendments. and we saw justice turn a blind eye to mobs with nooses slung over trees. we saw bullets and bombs terrorize generations. and yet through all this the call to freedom survived.