dr. king stand here today as the third african-american and second woman to represent the 11th district of ohio and i greet you on behalf of the 43 members of the congressional black caucus which i'm honored to chair. the civil rights act of 1964, did more than help in the discrimination in america. the civil rights act established legal discrimination would no longer be a barrier to what one could achieve, but that achievement should be solely determined by one's ability and ambition. the civil rights act clarified the difference between all men being created equal, and all men receiving equal treatment. the constitution established one as a principle the civil rights act of '64 established the other as a practice. giving a generation of americans hope that they too could be acknowledged as full citizens of this great nation. as president johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964 into law, he stated that america's founders knew freedom would only be secure if each generation fought to renew

dr. king stand here today as the third african-american and second woman to represent the 11th district of ohio and i greet you on behalf of the 43 members of the congressional black caucus which i'm honored to chair. the civil rights act of 1964, did more than help in the discrimination in america. the civil rights act established legal discrimination would no longer be a barrier to what one could achieve, but that achievement should be solely determined by one's ability and ambition. the civil rights act clarified the difference between all men being created equal, and all men receiving equal treatment. the constitution established one as a principle the civil rights act of '64 established the other as a practice. giving a generation of americans hope that they too could be acknowledged as full citizens of this great nation. as president johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964 into law, he stated that america's founders knew freedom would only be secure if each generation fought to renew

dr. king ferris. thank you for being with us today. this day, of course, would not be possibly without your parents and certainly would not be possible at all without president lyndon johnson, so thank you, lynn do d.inda johns and senator robb. clab cl [ applause ] again, as we gathered n the rotunda under the gaze of president lincoln we recall the gettysburg address when the great emancipator harkened back not to the constitution but to the declaration of independence. ours was a new nation, he said, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal. that is the promise of america and in making that promise come true that was the dream of dr. martin luther king, jr. and coretta scott king. a century after the gettysburg address, a century later, dr. king stood on the steps of the lincoln memorial and called our nation to act on those words to reassert the vision of our founding fathers. a year later, dr. king stood as an honored guest as president johnson

no one but no one could leave the church. >> dr. kinger to montgomery from atlanta to lend support to the freedom riders. and so king, too, along with the riders, is trapped at this church. >> now, it's very easy for us to get angry and bitter and even violent in a moment like this. but i think this is a testing point. you can get a $1,000 turbocharged reward card with a new volkswagen turbo. so why are we so obsessed with turbo? because there's nothing more exhilarating than a powerful ride. and you can get that in places you might not expect. like the passat. and also in the fun-to-drive jetta. in fact, volkswagen has sold more turbos than any other brand over the last ten years. that is a lot of turbo. hurry in and you can get a $1,000 turbocharged reward card when you lease a new 2014 passat s for $219 a month. hello! i'm a kid. and us kids have an important message for our grown ups. three grams daily of beta-glucan... a soluable fiber from whole grain oat foods like cheerios can help lower cholesterol. and where can you find beta-g

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no one but no one could leave the church. >> dr. king gone over to montgomery from atlanta to lend support to the freedom riders. and so king, too, along with the riders, is trapped at this church. >> now, it's very easy for us to get angry and bitter and even violent in a moment like this. but i think this is a testing point. i live in a luxury penthouse overlooking central park. when the guests arrive, they're greeted by my butler, larry. my helipad is being re-surfaced so tonight we travel by more humble means. at my country club, we play parlor games with members of the royal family. yes i am rich. that's why i drink the champagne of beers. [ shutter clicks ] hi there! [ laughs ] -i'm flo! -i know! i'm going to get you your rental car. this is so ridiculous. we're going to manage your entire repair process from paperwork to pickup, okay, little tiny baby? your car is ready, and your repairs are guaranteed for as long as you own it. the progressive service center -- a real place, where we really manage your claim from start to finish.

dr. king's life. >> when you lost your uncle, dr. martin luther king jr.sin's bullet, how did you feel? >> i wanted to strike out and blame people. i decided it was white people. i said, daddy, i hate white people. he was on the way to get his brother's body. but he wrapped his arms around me and said, white people didn't kill your uncle. the devil did. they march with us, they live with us, and sometimes they die with us. you have to love. and dr. martin luther king talked about it. but it's a king family legacy rule. >> this rare picture of the children of dr. king was recently taken after a presidential gold medal was awarded to the king family. and adding that all americans should come to the realization that we have one shared history and future. therefore, we should live beyond the dream. >> and on friday, dr. bernice king, the daughter of dr. king stated that despite the difficulties and obstacles that remain on our path, the civil rights act made possible tremendous strides toward a more just nation. amazing. >> and it's great to get insight into t

dr. martin luther king, jr. and others at his side -- president lyndon johnson marked an inflection point in a struggle that predated our republic when he signed the landmark civil rights act of 1964. it was a struggle that had begun more than three centuries earlier, in 1619, with the arrival of roughly 20 captive africans in jamestown, virginia. and it continued through the expanding colonization of north america. by 1763, the colonial population included roughly 300,000 africans, the overwhelming majority of whom were slaves. yet it wasn't until a century later that our greatest president issued an emancipation proclamation providing a legal framework for the eventual release of many slaves -- and secured the thirteenth amendment, which finally struck this evil from our constitution. even then, jim crow laws and other measures were engineered to keep millions of african-americans effectively in bondage, slavery by another name, for a century more. and intimidation and violence were routinely employed to preve

>> yes, happily. >> the king's rule, not dr. her king rule but the king of kidnappings and that doesn't change by our opinion or man's laws that is forever standing and with my uncle ml was here today he would uphold the boibl. >> i used to read his sermons and they were magnificent and i was shocked they were sermon. >> he was a preacher. >> he was happy about that. he didn't want to be known as a civil right's leader but a min ufter of the boibl. >> you talk about things that were common in your family and t the king family lived. one of the king rowels that you think is important and one you wish we all live by. >> care for the needy. and that is the young people of the day can cake martin luther king the good samaritan who stopped to take care of the man robbed and thrown on the street. he was not from our neighborhood or shop in our stores or schools or church we takened. probably was not even from the town or country, and he stopped and he tweeted or got on his cell phone today, and he calls his assistant and said bring a p

dr. king, thank you for coming back and talking about this. topic i wrote about self-times on the show. several people tell me several things about allergies. i know allergies aren't the same for everybody. hopefully we will hit on different remedies for different people that can help. you think allergies are regional. tell me about that. >> there are many, many allergies, carol. one of the allergies that are going through the roof with people are seasonal allergies. >> why is that? >> because pollen has increased dramatically. according to the usda, in the last 50 years pollen has increased by over 200%. >> i am going to ask again. why is that? >> co2. increases of co2 in our environment. plants breathe co2 and it makes plants prosper and it makes plants produce pollen. >> we are breathing out co2. it is in the air and coming from cars and machines and all of this stuff. the co2 in the air is rising and the plants then thrive because they love that and they pollen nate because they are happy. >> they are p o -- pollenat nie g and not making p

here comes dr. kingyoung who i mention by the way, that is living history. 1965, 68 dr. king started the poor people's campaign. you can't make this up. you cannot pass and the only way to achieve social justice and a capitalist country is through economic parity. ownership. it was about whites, blacks, reds browne and others and i come back to my message and i will summarize on why we are all in this thing together. he realized that the color was green. he realized that the civil rights movement was not about black people. it was about redeeming the soul of america. it's going back to why i love jim clifton so much and why that quote when he said i just want america to win, you knew that everybody had the field growing for our team. dr. king was killed -- the poor people's campaign in 1968. guess what? we never got the memo. here's why i'm optimistic. it's not like poor working class struggling middle-class people got the memo and we screwed it up. we never got the memo. we have never in the history of

>> the thing about dr. king, what he was trying to do, it wasn't just changing a discord. it's not what i can do or what you can do for your platform, it's about slow patient organization. he knew the pow he of the slow patient organization. people thought it was dead and take decades and generation to resuscitate, you know, there was plenty of people for rosa parks that tried a similar protest. they were ignored, thrown into jail and ignored. now what dr. king was trying to do, he is trying to slowly build organizational capacity. he was trying to slowly create a booth between different grupz on the left. he was pushing a very explicit socialist program that understand the ways in which the war in vietnam was connect with the war at home. the way racism was connected in with capitalism. he was a democratic socialist. i think we just need patience and clarity. that's one thing that maybe i did disagree with professor reed. part is a tone. if we're really socialists, we should think in the grand scope of history. we should think just like the rights did when they saw in 196

dr. king's parents on the night of dr. king's tragic assassination in april 1968. another renowned homegrown indiana leader was willard ransom. and they are featured here. mr. ransom after graduating from harvard law school as the only african-american member of his class was drafted into the military during world war ii, while serving, ransom spent much of his time in alabama where he was distraught by the discriminatory manner in which fellow americans were being treated. resolving to see these practices come to an end, ransom returned to his home community of indianapolis where he quickly became a leader in the fight for greater civil rights. he spoke against housing discrimination and school segregation. he played a role in drafting civil rights bills before the state legislature, served as the state president of the naacp five times and was the first african-american to run for congress in marion county. henry johnson richardson jr. moved to indianapolis from alabama to attend short ridge high school and he went on to attend law school at indiana university in

we made it because people like dr. king and people that came behind dr. my generation and a general asian behind me did not accept wrong are. they kept fighting, kept marching, kept doing what was right. and that's what we must do today. we must not sink into cynicism and say, why do we keep seeing the same things? we've got to keep fighting because progress can happen. the good note on both cases is both cases in l.a. and new york were with videotaped by two men, neither were black. it shows that people will stand up for what's right, even if police officers don't. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> chaos, confusion and charges of cover-up on the ground. let's play "hardball.." good evening. i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. a scene of horror at the malaysia flight 17 crash turns into chaos.

the assassination of president kennedy, the assassination of bobby kennedy, the assassination of dr. king, the war in vietnam. trying to extract ourselves from vietnam. quite a heavy load the american people were being asked to bear at that time, and it showed in the voices and expressions of the members. railsback was under enormous stress because he was a strong supporter of president nixon. he lost his voice during the course of those proceedings and never regained it. hamilton fish under tremendous pressure from his father, who had served previously, and a leader of the conservative movement and those who would come to closed sessions in , he would come rabbi from new york. i made it very clear that they were fundamentally opposed to what ham fish was saying and doing and where the committee was going. so there were a lot of personal things that were taking place in the lives of individuals that perhaps were never known to the public over felt in the committee. chris did you have a sense of how riveting these moments were and how many americans were washed into proceedings on televisi

was responsible for getting the bill passed, and president johnson supposed by said to her, dr. king passed the bill, but senator dirksen made the law. it's an interesting distinction, but i think that there's credit to go around, and nice to give it to the people who are forgotten. >> oh, wonderful. could you talk for a couple minutes about this interesting question for us today about the breakdown of opinion on civil rights among the legislators? as you pointed out, in fact, it was a republican issue in a lot of ways. this was a period of change. >> it was a period of change, and in the aftermath of the period of the law, he worry he gave it out to the republicans for a generation, and the republicans over that period went gradually, but steadily, from being the party of lincoln to the party of white backlash, and it's, frankly, there's still southern democrats in congress who are just republicans now, and the republicans, faced problems at the national brand as we saw in 2008 and 2012, and the republican nominee nearly lost, you know, the republican incumbent nearly lost, and all

kennedy basically told dr. king, force me to do it. put the pressure on the south. go to alabama. of course, that carried on with resident johnson who understood how they really struck a chord with voters, but also members of congress. >> both residents were very aware of what the movement was doing at the district level and at the state level. strategic inery understanding the value that these civil rights movement could offer him in terms of moving some of these midwestern republicans -- even though the southern democrats were never going to vote for this. but the movement was very strategic. martin luther king was a great strategist. he understood every time you put together one of these protests, he made it more difficult for southern democrats to block progress on the hill. it was a dance. rights,e all for civil which revolved around these protests. >> in putting together your book, have you been able to talk to those who still remember the johnson years? >> some. use interviews, and i have spoken with people who were around then, but the heart of my research really comes out

. >> we know the role of l.b.j., dr king and the kennedys.ell me about the people overlooked in this struggle the. >> there are two people i like to point out as unsung heroes. one is clarence mitchell, the head of the washington bureau of the nwacp and the head lobbyist for the organization, he was legendary as someone who could get the wheels moving for an issue like civil rights that whereas not the thing that anyone wanted to talk about. the fact that impinge happened on civil rights in 1957 and 1960 and with this bill is, and to a large extent. due to his pressure. the other is bill mcculloch, and he represents all the republicans that came out in favour of the bill, despite being wary of the federal government and spending. he was a small down ohio ventive. he was adamant about civil rites. he was not what you would expect. but he was absolutely vital in getting other people, midwestern republicans to back the bill. >> churches are sometimes overlooked in the power and influence that they had. >> right. we know a lot about the black chu

was responsible for getting the bill passed, and president johnson supposed by said to her, dr. king passed the bill, but senator dirksen made the law. it's an interesting distinction, but i think that there's credit to go around, and nice to give it to the people who are forgotten. >> oh, wonderful. could you talk for a couple minutes about this interesting question for us today about the breakdown of opinion on civil rights among the legislators? as you pointed out, in fact, it was a republican issue in a lot of ways. this was a period of change. >> it was a period of change, and in the aftermath of the period of the law, he worry he gave it out to the republicans for a generation, and the republicans over that period went gradually, but steadily, from being the party of lincoln to the party of white backlash, and it's, frankly, there's still southern democrats in congress who are just republicans now, and the republicans, faced problems at the national brand as we saw in 2008 and 2012, and the republican nominee nearly lost, you know, the republican incumbent nearly lost, and all

it required leaders of commission from medgar evers to dr. king to john lewis to andrew young who were willing to risk and even to give their lives an order that others might live free. most of all, it required men, women and even children. children of tremendous courage and unwaivering faith to endure the unindurable and to advance the cause of justice. these are the heroes whose legacy we celebrate on this milestone anniversary. orve of course, all who are old enough to remember those days, i will never forget the turmoil and violence that characterized the civil rights era. i will never forget watching on a black and white television in my childhood home, queens, new york city, countless people, rich and poor, black and white, famous and unknown, braved dogs and fire hoses, billy clubs and baseball bats, bullets and bombs to secure the rights to which every american is entitled. these extraordinary citizens streamed into birmingham and marched on washington. they stood up in little rock and they sat in in greensboro. they faced riots in oxford

we're going to create what dr. kingdeem the soul of america. it's going to happen. it may not happen on my watch, it may not happen during my lifetime, but it will happen. and people should not be afraid of the future. >> congressman lewis and phillip agnew will be answering your questions online. visit the reidreportmsnbc.com. e? covergirl and olay invented facelift effect firming makeup. luxurious coverage plus the firming power of a night cream to plump skin with moisture. new facelift effect makeup from olay and easy, breezy, beautiful, covergirl. ♪he cadillac summer collection is here. ♪ during the cadillac summer's best event, lease this all new 2014 cts for around $459 a month or purchase with 0% apr and make this the summer of style. take them on the way you always have. live healthy and take one a day men's 50+. a complete multivitamin with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. age? who cares. ithe part of us that a littwants to play,on. wants to be mischievous, wants to run free, all you have to do is let it

but at the same time, you know, if you think about it, you know, dr. kingching and the civil rights was at its peak, you know, and we was telling people just give us a chance to drink water out of a fountain or go to the bathroom or go to the -- anywhere, you know, really. and all those things had something to do with the way i was doing as far as playing baseball. >> terence, this interview brings up so many things. one, you guys make me a little misty just talking about what was he thinking going to first base. i wasn't thinking about anything. he doesn't think about himself, he thinks about his parents. how sweet is that. lovely. this is a guy that had so much vile nastiness hurled at him as he made his way through his career. what is that ability in his psyche, in his mind, to keep those things separate? all the nastiness but to focus on the game? >> you know, i think it was a combination of two things. you meng hadd mentioned the foc that's a big thing. i've spoken to a lot of athletes through the last 35, 37 years and he is one of the most, if not the

dr. king, my hero, ambassador young. go take a picture.y. 1965, 68, the poor people's campaign do you just cannot make this up. you cannot pass law enforcement. the only way to achieve social justice is through economic parity, ownership. it was not about black people, white, black and red, brown, others. why we're in this together. he realized the color. the civil-rights movement was not about black people by redeeming the soul of america. going back to why i love my jim clifton so much. i just want america to win. he knew that everybody had to be on the field rowing for our team dr. king was killed two weeks before his first march on the poor people's campaign in 1968. guess what? we never got the memo. we have never in history of this country tried to use the power of the free enterprise system the set people free. what is freedom today? self-determination. self-determination. you cannot sell determined yourself in america today. if youngest in the language of money. i believe in america. i also believe that doctor king did not go to a

dr. king's "chaos or community," you should. what we are talking about today, he wrote in 1967 when we were grappling with riots across the country. he said it did not cost america much to allow us to sit at the same lunch counter or to be in the same hotel. he said now the question is the real cost is about to be tabulated, and is america prepared to write that check? he put that whole thing down in terms of where we are and in terms of society. when i look at opportunity, when i look at the idea of sports and how race connects, what each and every single one of you should do some thing reverend jackson often talks about -- he said, the reason african-americans have been able to achieve a level of success in sports and entertainment is because in sports, if it is basketball, the court is 94 feet for everybody. it is 10 feet high for everybody. shot clock is the same. fouls are the same. everything is the same. so when you go play, your talent will determine whether you succeed or not. it was undeniable that kareem, working on h

splinter as the 60's wore on, and debates grew up about affirmative action and busing and vietnam, dr. kingnson were essentially estranged at the time of his death because of vietnam. so the paradox for me is that 50 years ago the country was every bit as divided as it is now, probably more divided. but the congress still managed to work together. now, congress is much more divided than the country as a whole, partly because the districts are redder and redder and bluer and bluer, and people are worried not about losing in november but getting a primary from the right or the left. so i do worry that we've lost something essential that we really depended on 50 years ago. and just as we seem awfully lucky to have had the particular cast of characters we did at the time of the founding, it seems to me that 50 years ago we were pretty lucky to have that cast of characters too. >> ifill: todd purdum, the author of "an idea whose time has come: two presidents, two parties, and a battle for the civil rights act of 1964. thank you so much. >> thank you so much for having me. >> woodruff: uncertaint

that climate change is not happening even if they cut and pasted from the internet the rules of dr king's contests are very simple order to be eligible for the ten thousand dollars prize participants must be over the age of eighteen must employ the scientific method and they don't even need to pay an entry fee arcadian said i am certain my money is safe they are in the business of denial and deception not science but if someone could give me scientific proof of global warming isn't real it would be worth the money science deniers love to claim that there is still debate about climate change despite the fact that ninety seven percent of scientists say that the evidence is clear now there is ten thousand dollars riding on it it will be entertaining to see what the climate deniers come up with. crazy right dick cheney who is the only by honest politician in america thinking to murray the last of oklahoma republican primary election last week claims that he's found out something shocking about the guy who for the nomination longtime congressman frank lucas tried it out. you're used to seeing

when dr. king said, and chaos or community come out where do we go from here? what do we do about what is in somebody's heart? for him to be a team owner, it is no shock. look you have a city , councilwoman in texas who was recorded saying we need to get those blacks off the school board. and she refuses to apologize. she is on a pollock -- she is unapologetic saying that we need to get those blacks off the school board. we have to say, wait a minute. we have to confront the reality of race in america, who is here from akron, ohio? the newspaper won a pulitzer prize for a series on race and ushering in a citywide conversation. part of this is because what we love to do in america is we love to not have that brutally honest discussion. we want to have the nice we all get along conversation without realizing there are people in power who own businesses, who are elected officials who might be in charge of having black people who work for them but have a hard-core view on the issue of race. it causes a lot of people to force themselves to say, wait a minute. we mig

i admired dr. king immensely.ember as a kid watching the kids in birmingham, alabama, stand up and being so moved by their commitment. so this was all a part of it. but then it's just been like gift. just gift. and i describe my spirituality as just walking willing. going to the places where i'm led. and letting people break my heart. over and over. but you know what happens, tavis? i've discovered when my heart's broken, it's like it's broken open to have room for more people. and then hope is released. when we're in touch with each other and hear the real stories, that's where hope is nourished. and you can't do it alone. i can only do it in relationship. and so it's like -- it's a great gift. it's a gift to me. >> i want to close by asking how it is that you sustain your hope. how do you sustain your hope? and i think the answer might be found in the very last paragraph of this text. i wonder if i might implore you to read it for me. >> sure. i haven't read it with that question in mind. let's see. >> it is my

dr. martin luther king jr. mon-khmer reverence ralph abernathy, congressman john lewis car rosa parks, and many of today's program participants and guests. many of you in this auditorium as well as countless others who in the face of bigotry and violence called upon our nation to live up to its fundamental ideals of liberty and equality. history is ambassador andrew jackson young jr., a living legend and an icon at the forefront of a watershed moment for america, one with enormous ramifications for our country and the world, the civil rights movement, and the ultimate passage of this or rights act of 1964. [applause] ambassador young met the challenges of segregation with truly remarkable sacrifice is open to transform america into a better, stronger, and fair nation. born in warns during the depths of the great depression, ambassador rihanna accepted the responsibility of service at a young age. in 1960 after receiving his undergraduate degree right here in howard university and his divinity degree from hartfo

dr. gill-king ruled the manner of death to be homicidal violence. when word got out that a young woman had been murdered in yellow house canyon, calls started to pour in. >> one woman came up and said that she knew her husband had done it because he was a knife freak, and said, oh, by the way, we're having a custody battle tomorrow, can you give me a copy of this report for my lawyer? >> investigators checked the dental records of 64 young women reported missing throughout the united states, and none of them matched. so, investigators asked forensic artist karen taylor to try to put a face on the skull. >> granted, it's sort of a last-ditch effort when the forensic artist is called in. the job of the forensic artist is to trigger interest, to create that link. i often refer to it as being the middle man. >> at that point, she was my best hope. in fact, she was about our only hope. we were just about out of things to do. >> taylor pioneered a technique called two-dimensional facial reconstruction, which is part science and part art. each race has fac

dr. kingnce famously said -- and i love this -- that each of us should do our work so well that the dead, the living or the unborn couldn't do it any better. that's a high standard. >> you are awfully good at what you do in the morning. it's a wonderful team. the data bare this out, to a great extent, your being there as a part of this team, that's driven this show to number one in the mornings and kept the ratings there for quite some time. i raise that only because i wonder if you approach your work any different, if you approach your interviews any different, i'm just trying to get a sense of what robin is like in the chair now? >> i feel more sensitivity toward the person i'm speaking with. and i give them the benefit of the doubt more. meaning, if they -- i realize that i don't know what their going through. >> everybody's got something. >> exactly. if i think, why is this person acting like this. usually -- in past i would hold it against them not in the interview but -- now like i kind

if you look at the life of dr. king as you have and the life of civil rights leaders they were always being pushed by their friends and the white house and the white church and even in the black community to be quiet, to give it more time and all of that stuff. there was this kind of -- they were tactical and strategic. they didn't always do what they wanted to do. we can't do that either. there was a sense there were certain things you have to stand up for. i grew newspaper a community where we were so excluded that there was public schools weren't open and i started in a colored school. public school wasn't open to me. we understood we could not get where we were trying on go until we had that kind of integration. people taught me sometimes you have to stand even when everybody else is itting. including your friends. sometimes you have got to speak even when everybody else is quiet. that idea that you do it because you have to do it, because it is the right thing to do, even if you have to do it by yourself that was t

four years later, dr. king was at the white house as president johnson signed the landmark civil rights act into law. those four years were filled with struggle and sacrifice. but it was worth it. the new law banned discrimination in public, in schools, in the workplace and at the ballot box. >> we believe that all men are created equal, yet many are denied equal treatment. yet it cannot continue. our constitution, foundation of our republic, forbids it. the principles of our freedom forbid it. morality forbids it. and the law i will sign tonight forbids it. >> after johnson signed the bill, he famously said he lost the south to the gop for a generation. sadly he was right. here is the map of the states of the old confederacy. now look at the map today. for just the second time since the civil war, republicans control the legislature in every confederate state. and in all those states, politicians want to reassert the old motto of states rights. trying to limit the federal government and role back many of the c

dr. king's word on the washington mall on august 1963. we will recall the memory marching from delano to sacramento. we will shed a tear or two for the trail of tears, slavery, unrelenting exploitation and the other crimes of a now vanquished capitalism. and we will feel a new kinship, a renewed kinship with all the freedom fighters who walked down freedom highway and whose footsteps remains for ever etched in the sands of time. we will on that day, sing the prophetic words of maya , you may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies. you may trod me in the very dirt, but still by desk i will rise. who will win? who will overcome ? thank you, thank you. [applause] >> on the next " washington talks" edward klein about his book, the clinton versus obama's. then we will look at what economists will look for in the june jobs report and ongoing negotiations over a trade agreement between the u.s. and european union, a deal that would create a market for 800 million people and joined by that editor of the natural -- to discuss thel

dr. king's chaos or community you should. because it literally what we are talking about today he wrote in 1967 and we were grappling with riots across the country. what he said was it's real -- he said it did not cost america much. it didn't cost america much to allow us to sit at the same lunch count iror to be in the same hotel. he said now the question is the real cost is about to be tabulated and is america prepared to write that check? and he broke that whole thing down in terms of where we are in terms of society. and so when i look at opportunity, when i look at this idea of sports and how race connects, what each and every single one of you should do is do something that reverend jackson often talks about. he said the reason african-americans have been able to achieve a level of success in sports, in entertainment, he says because in sports, if it's basketball, the court is 94 feet for everybody. it's ten feet high for everybody. shot clock is the same. fouls are the same. everything is the same. and so when you go t