“The audience is made up of young and old alike”.
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She hoped everyone would embrace a message of compassion.
“We’ve come a long way in the city of Austin”, Joe Deshotel, Communications Director for the Travis County Democratic Party said, “from a city less than a hundred years ago that was forced segregation across the city”.
The event also had a host of other elected officials as speakers, including Greenville Mayor Dexter McLendon.
Many marched, walked and waved their way down East Broad Street to honor Martin Luther King. They both say the new leaders are going to be the next generation. “Each year we got stronger as a people and a nation, and as a community”.
“Fifty to 100 years, I’d say Martin Luther King’s dream, becomes reality”, predicts Harper. “One of the most important things that he shared is that, you know, it’s important for all of us to love one another, and actually show each other kindness and he did that through kindness”, said Williams.
“The outreach we’re doing here is a small part of it”, said LaMalfa.
“When we talk in our congregation about Tikkun Olam, repairing the world, we could talk up a storm but unless we give an opportunity to do that it doesn’t mean much”, Lustig said of his choice to expand the program. “You should not be judged by skin, but by character”.
Organizers say the celebration is about honoring civil right movements of the past, present and future.
“His leadership for civil rights”. “Knowing he represented the very best within us, we can and must strive to live by his ideals to realize our shared sense of objective, keep his cause with us and carry on his work”.
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“You forced important power in high places to recognize that the scared memory of the Emanuel Nine would be parched by a symbol of injustice flying over the Capitol”, he said at a prayer breakfast.
