. >> in this area here is where frederick douglas' head will be. >> what it's about is remembering people who did extraordinary things under the most difficult of circumstances. >> when it's done this will stand 21 feet and weigh 60,000 pounds. the idea came to him 3,552 days ago. the day of the 9/11 attacks. >> at the moment i said why would any one do something like this and what am i doing to contribute or not. >> his contribution is a memorial that will live in a park in the emerging uptown district. >> this will contribute to showing that oakland is more than what people hear all the time. oakland is a place to be recognized. >> among the figures, martin luther king, mother theresa, also poet maya angelou and harvey milk. >> you look at the individuals, at issue is the fact that some of them made mistake, some didn't do in the early part of their years what they ultimately did in the final part of the years. >> there were people i grew up with, people who i saw along the way for my own journey and i look to them. >> he hopes the figures will inspire others once they are unjailed. ser

thousands of dollars in gifts including a fifteen thousand dollar bible that once belonged to frederick douglas crowe also got justice thomas' wife half million dollar check so that she could start her very own tea party lobby group for him dedicated to repealing obamacare a case by the way that her husband will likely decide when the supreme court determines the constitutionality of the health reform law in coming months so. we can now add this misdeed to the laundry list of bad behavior by justice thomas from unofficial fundraising to not disclosing his wife's right wing income to obvious conflicts of interest on the bench all of which are clear violations of the federal code of conduct for judges and problem is the justices on the supreme court have exempted themselves and themselves alone from that code of conduct presidents can and have been impeached members of congress can and have been expelled for bad behavior and the constitution the united states says quote the judge's show hold their office during good behavior behavior by the way capitalized and quote so is it time for we the peopl

. >> in this area here is where frederick douglas's head will be. it's a big head. what it's about is remembering people who did extraordinary things under difficult circumstances. >> reporter: when it's done the sul temperature will weigh 60,000 pounds. the idea came to him 3,552 days ago, the day of the 9/11 attacks. >> i remember when 9/11 happened. that very moment i said, why would anyone do something like this? what am i doing to contribute or not? >> reporter: his contribution is a memorial that will live in a park next to oakland's fox theater in the emerging uptown district. today the city broke ground on the project. >> this will contribute to show that oakland is more than what people hear all the time. oakland is a place to be recognized. >> reporter: among the figures, martin luther king, franklin d. roosevelt, mother theresa, poet maya angelou, chief joseph and harvey milk. >> at issue here are some of them made mistakes. some of them didn't do in the early years what they ultimately did. >> this is helen keller. ecebf o for my journey. >> reporter: he

gay families, but the highest level of relationship that you can have, as christian and as a frederick douglasstitution is a marriage between one man and one woman. maybe it should be more like a ron paul. maybe the state shouldn't be involved in the business of marriages at all and leave it up to the churches. >> heather. >> don, i have to say the state has always been involved in marriages. the marriage is a contract, not just between two people, but a contract between people and a unit and the nation and the community that they live in. you said it yourself, i have to say my best friend is going to be able to get married this summer to her partner in new york state in the place where she lives. they pay property taxes, they own property. they're going to have a family there. they're also really vital members of their community. they protect the elderly, do community service work and work with young people who are troubled. they work every day to make cha their community stronger. that mutual obligation to respect the commitments we all make to one another, that's what you're talking about w