amy goodman: i'd like to play danny glover reading the excerpts of the speech that you didn't give. danny glover: "to those who have said, 'be patient and wait,' we must say that 'patience' is a dirty and nasty word. we cannot be patient. we do not want to be free gradually. we want our freedom, and we want it now. we cannot depend on any political party, for both the democrats and the republicans have betrayed the basic principles of the declaration of independence. ... "we won't stop now. all of the forces of eastland, barnett, wallace and thurmond won't stop the revolution. the time will come when we will not confine our marching to washington. we will march through the south, through the heart of dixie, the way sherman did. we shall pursue our own 'scorched earth' policy and burn jim crow to the ground!" amy goodman: john lewis, you also said a part that didn't get included was: "in good conscience, we cannot support the administration's civil rights bill, for it's too little, too late. there's not one thing in the bill that will protect our people from police brutality." rep. j

he served on the board of directors of transafrica, where he works closely with board chairman danny glover and harry bell fonte. i would like to say that commissioner adams is not new to us at the port and volunteered time to serve with us most recently on the mayor's blue-ribbon panel and so it's a great honor and benefit for all of us at the port to welcome you here today commissioner adams. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you for volunteering. so as we all know today is september 11th, which is patriot day and national day of service and remembrance and it's a day to high honor the individuals who lost their lives in september 11th of 2011. the flags are at half mast by order of mayor lee and in accordance with mayor obama and so i would like to ask that we adjourn today's meeting in honor of those who lost their lives on september 11th. earlier this month, but actually late last month we finally had the first regatta of the america's cup series through august 22-26 and it was an honor to have all the teams based here at in san francisco. it's quite an amazing operation. the

. >> even though derek is off today, he e-mailed us to tell us he once interviewed danny glover. glover appeared in the movie saw with lee and then he appeared in the film, death sentence with kevin bacon. that makes his bacon number three, too. >> kind of creepy. >> it is. one post we saw on facebook asked if anyone takes more than three to get to kevin bacon and the game should be renamed. let us know your bacon number and how you get there on our wusa9 facebook page. only time you'll put lesli foster and bacon in the same sentence. coming up, meet a high school athlete who until a couple of years ago never played sports and is now fielding college scholarship offers. >>> painkillers, can they be the cause of your pain? a look at a new study that questions how we treat headaches coming up. >>> the space shuttle endeavour flying days are over. after 25 missions in space, the orbiter touched down for the last time about an hour and a half ago. teresa garcia shows us where it goes from here. >> space shuttle endeavour soared past the golden gate bridge during its farewell flight o

color purple" was adapted into a film directed by steven spielberg and starring whoopi goldberg, danny glover, and oprah winfrey. in this clip, two of the main characters have a tense exchange: a strong, independent woman named sofia tells long abused celie that she's struggled all her life and will let anyone beat her down. >> all my life i had to fight. i had to fight my daddy. i had to fight my uncles. i had to fight my brothers. girl, child a save in a family mens.f i love harpo, god knows i do, but i kill him dead before i let him touch -- >> is that a footprint question >> no, sir. no, sir. >> do you want a dead son-in- law, miss celie was recce keep advising him like you do. >> as the novel is based -- we are joined by the renowned author alice walker to further discuss the legacy. we will also speak about other writings, social and political activism in support of the palestinians and about the coming presidential election. alice walker, welcome to "democracy now!" it is great to be with you. yesterday your before a crowd of about 1200 people in the audience at the fall for the book f