In so many instances, there has been an attempt to rewrite history. And many times, on photographs, Martin and I were marching together, hand in hand; they cropped the photographs and left me out.
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
