thank god, today augustine thomas -- augustine thomas made north carolina better state with her workctions. she said that these young men need help and has spent her life helping others. so, she went to her husband and said -- i told him, i was going to go to greensboro and you all this was 1960. this was before women had arrived in this country. he looked at her and said your father and i will discuss this situation. well, they came back and told her it was too dangerous. you are a mother, you know, you are a wife, you could get hurt and go to jail. you could even be killed. she said -- i understand all of that, but i am going. well, they talked for a few minutes and said -- ok, we are going to agree to let you go. she said no, stop right there. i told you that i made this decision, i'm going. i don't need my husband and my father telling me whether i can go or not. yes, she was a fighter for women's rights in this country also. so, she went on to greensboro. she sat there, day after day. people spat on her. they hit her. they kicked her. they knocked her off the stool. she kept get

and sisters, join with augustine thomas, the dream of martin luther king. someone to get an education, that needs to get a chance in this life. help us child. get the arts back in the school. most of all, go out and get someone to vote today and register them to vote and live the dream forever, for dr. king and for augusta thomas. thank you also much. miss augusta, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for this award. [applause] >> now you see not only why we honored miss augusta, but also by president cox be the one to accept the award. i told him, we will have him back every year now. he has to do the keynote. a preacher at heart. i want to draw your attention back to the idiot screen. -- video screen. king day is something that we all look forward to. it became a law in 1983. it was first it tells you we have had progress, but it is ok while for us to see where all the states have observed the holiday. at this point i want to knowledge that the president created a video and he will tell you more on what you need to do, but he is part of the dream that

augustine thomas. now, i asked her, what do you want me to talk about this morning?would you say on accepting this award? she has many, many stories. the one she wanted me to share with you this morning, that all of her life she has stood up for workers, for union members, for winning fair wages, dignity on the job, and equal opportunity. in 1960 she was living in louisville, kentucky, and had six children. the lord was eventually going to bless her with nine. had six children. she's all four don't men on tv who were sitting in at the greensboro lunch counter. they needed help in greensboro. she was outraged with what was going on. thank god, today augusta thomas made north carolina a better state with her work and her actions. when she saw these young men she said that these young men need help and has spent her life helping others. so, she went to her husband and said -- i told him, i was going to go to greensboro -- and, you all, this was 1960 before women had arrived in this country. he looked at her and said your father and i will discuss this situation. well, t

but what islam has not had, and what the church did have, were thinkers like augustin and thomas equine as who took the church and the teachings an the history and applied them to different successive generations, how to develop the church's teachings. and i think it awaits its augustin or thomas. how that would come about, i haven't a clue. for some muslims that would be considered heresy. and i don't have a dog in that fight in the sense i'm not a muslim so i'm not able to make those determinations. but if a peaceful islam were heretical to what we were seeing with isis then i would welcome the heresy. because i think what you have right now -- and the other thing that islam doesn't have that christianity has, is an equivalent statement to the one where jesus holds up the coin with caesar saiz head on and says pay to caesar what is caesars and unto god what is god's. by authority and power. power is a form of constraint, as is authority. they are both forms of constraint. but power is a form of constraint that is external to the person. in other words, you are coerced from outside. au

augustine thomas is a woman i have yet to meet, but have heard a lot about.itting that she would be getting this award. she knew him before he was the dr. king that we have all come to know and love. she was reelected as the national vice president for women and fair practices in 2000 nine. as the national vice president her mission is to expand the training program. in 1956 she first joined a sge.

augustin articulated principals when thomas equine as systemized in the century. they settled on two sets of principals. criterion for going to war and measures for war time conduct. some criteria, including necessity, distinction and proportionality were accepted by the international community as part of the law of war. in his public discussion of drones president obama has evoked language from the just war tradition. he has insisted that drone strikes can be undertaken only if there is near center that no civilians will be killed or injured. obama has also acknowledged civilian deaths due to american drone strikes. he calls these losses haunting but necessary if the u.s. was to reduce civilian casualties that would result if terrorist networks operated without restriction. the use of drones and the war on terror, obama has declared is part of a quote, just war, a war waged proportionally in last resort and in self-defense. critics have regularly sounded their displeasure with the drone products and in articles stretching from 2009 to 2014 and shown women and chi