do not forget that martin luther king was a preacher inspired by mordecai johnson. even women got to their women's rights under equal protection under the law. handicapped people have a better day under equal protection under the law. everybody owes something to the black baptist preacher, martin luther king and mordecai why it johnson. [applause] in that class, dr. king told us not to become preachers conservative the status quo. he said be a profit in speak through the power. i will never forget his words. i say to you today, i want to see some truth before i take my seat. i know barack obama is in the white house. i have news for you. i learned a long time ago that my daddy had diabetes. and also had hypertension my oldest brother had a smoke, the brother next to him had a stroke. one year ago, i suffered a stroke. thank god that he spared my mind and my mouth that i could come here and speak to you today. he would have made to remind you that the same stroke that went through my dna -- racism is still in the dna of the united states of america. we still need a t

his name was mordecai johnson, pastor of the first baptist church of charleston west virginia. next cocktail party would be. he did not seek to find where the next social appointment would be. he sought out justice louis brandeis. and in the course of a conversation he said to him, justice brandeis, if you were to build a first-class law school, what the advice would you give to the builder? justice brandeis told him, on the condition that he would not tell anyone what he said until he was dead, he said, dr. johnson, if i were to build a first-class law school and take this school from being a night school to a first-class school, i would build a law school to teach young lawyers how to become a -- i would not teach young lawyers have to become corporate lawyers just to put money in their pockets. i would not build a law school to teach young lawyers how to be criminal lawyers, also to make money only for themselves. he said, i would build a school that would teach young black minds how to master constitutional law. from that conversation, dr. johnson went, and knocked on the do

his name was mordecai johnson, pastor of the first baptist church of charleston west virginia. not seek to find where the next social appointment would be. he sought out justice louis brandeis. and in the course of a conversation he said to him, justice brandeis, if you were to build a first-class law school, what the advice would you give to the builder? justice brandeis told him, on the condition that he would not tell anyone what he said until he was dead, he said, dr. johnson, if i were to build a first-class law school and take this school from being a night school to a first-class school, i would build a law school to teach young lawyers how to become a -- i would not teach young lawyers have to become corporate lawyers just to put money in their pockets. i would not build a law school to teach young lawyers how to be criminal lawyers, also to make money only for themselves. he said, i would build a school that would teach young black minds how to master constitutional law. from that conversation, dr. johnson went, and knocked on the door of one charles hamilton houston,

mordecai johnson, hurry her name. and king would sample howard thurman story of what happened in india to tell the story of what happened when king was in india. he was introduced once as an untouchable. he tells the congregation, reporting back in anthony's, here is a fellow untouchable from america. and everybody, you hear the audience wednesday. my, my, this is terrible. i thought about it and i could not stop and take my children in a motel. all of these things, if you look at the graduation speeches that howard and moorhouse, king recycled a whole lot of that and howard thurman as well. so this is the hip-hop aspect of cane, his ability to leave and then i have a dream, which was this brilliant on this path. he had rejected that since washington and harriet jackson was up on the dais with him. he was in mr. king better speech. it was a very very restrained speech and he was worried about kennedy in the solar rate bill. so he had to be very careful. halfway through, he serves on the prepared text and just as free

king welcome the mordecai johnson and thousands of other courageous women and men that came here to washingtona to take action. give us the ballot, he asserted. we will quietly and non violently without bitterness implemented the supreme court's's decision of may 17, 1954. the years of relentless struggle after he testified for democracy. our nation responded with the voting rights act of 1965. democracy events. less than four decades later, we learned that the widow of the american people and does not always prevail. we kept the faith, and we marched on alert. another eight years past, and our faith in democracy and our confidence was reaffirmed. and in 2008, we elected president of barack obama to the presidency of the united states of america. i believe that if dr. king were not here -- if dr. king were here, he would cite jeremiah 15: 9. harris says my son went down while it was still day. dr. king and lived only 39 years. but in those 39 years, he did a lot. be expected every single person in this room and generations yet unborn. this democracy that he worked so hard for, he said that whi