say something to my friend joe lowery.sed to send this guy to washington and i kept score in the oval office desk. lowery 21, bush 3. it wasn't a fair fight. >> reporter: on inauguration day 2009, he offered the benediction. >> we ask you to help us work for a day when black will not be asked to give back. when brown can stick around. when yellow will be melo. >> reporter: it was vintage lowery and there it was again on the 50th anniversary of the march on washington, the fight and the dream. >> we've come too far, marched too long, prayed too hard, wept, bled too profusely, and died too young to let anybody turn back the clock on our journey to justice. ♪ >> reporter: his wife and fellow pioneer of the civil rights movement, eflv lynn gibson, wou die only about a month later. >> she stood shoulder to shoulder with one of the greatest civil rights leaders we will ever know. >> reporter: and now the dean of the civil rights movement, too, has passed. his life's work still a work in progress. the movement for equality ever l