RUSH EXCERPT:JONES: "Exactly. They recognize that if they come for one of us, they’re coming for all of us. And that that there is this need for moral clarity and urgency. And I want to shout out the young people, because I want to say something that we see often today is that these young people are often told that they were acting too quickly, that they should, you know, they should seek gradual change. But these young people who are here, who started here in Nashville, where I’m sitting right now, were the ones who picked up the freedom rides after the busses were bombed in anniston. Those young people like diane nash and John Lewis and bernard Lafayette and c.t. Vivian, who said, we are not going to allow violence to overcome nonviolence. We’re going to pick up this, this movement and let them know that we’re not going to wait for permission. As fannie lou hamer said, she said, move on over or we’re moving on over you because we’re moving on. We’re going to build something new, make America live up to what it says on paper. And that’s what we must do today. And so when young people are told, oh, you’re being too radical, you’re asking for things too quickly. These young people back then, who we now celebrate as heroines and founding fathers of this multiracial democracy, were told the exact same thing, but they did not let that stop them. They said, we’re going to sit in as a way to stand up at these lunch counters. We’re going to get on the freedom rides, we’re going to March to selma and force this government to to face the issues that they want to keep underserved. We’re going to bring it to the surface and force this creative tension to make America’s democracy a reality for all people in this nation."
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