These are the live quotes from last week’s MLK Memorial Dedication service.
| “ | About to live tweet the leaders of civil rights lunch in honor of the MLK memorial. Gonna eat, since the program is long and press stand. | |||
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| “ | MLK III just finished speaking, Barbara Conrad is now singing a passage. Coming soon: Eric Holder, Sheila Jackson Lee, Jesse Jackson. | |||
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| “ | Eric Holder is onstage. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Holder: Dr. King’s spirit still has the power to embolden people to overcome, to come together and stand against injustice. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Holder: Our time together must not be just abt pagentry and revelry…we must rededicate our commitment to social justice. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Holder: We must rekindle his spirit…the work of uniting our nation is incomplete. His task is now our task; his dream, our dream. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Holder: I am amazed that a direct beneficary of the civil rights movement is in the White House…but the work is still not complete. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Holdet: We face hard tasks, but we must not give into cynicism. It is our moral imperative to take up the mantle. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Holder: Individual actions count. We have no excuses for our collective failure to act. Individuals must stand up and be counted. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Holder: Thank you for continuing his work, and contiuing to believe that one day, we will walk together into the promised land. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Aside: I officially have a braincrush on Eric Holder. #civilrightssquee | |||
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| “ | Gospel break! Soon to come, Sheila Jackson Lee, Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., Janet Murgia of La Raza. #mlk | |||
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| “ | The comedian they just announced did not get a clap. He was not amused. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Comedian is making AARP jokes & gospel jokes. His style really makes me miss Bernie Mac. Now he’s doing the black names bit. #latoya #mlk | |||
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| “ | The EVP of marketing for BET is speaking (not on the program.) I’ve been reading MLK quotes all day, so I’m going to squash the snark. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Oooh. She’s testing me. BET is now showing their civil rights music video. Set to “Miracles.” I will try to find this. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Sheila Jackson Lee, Jesse Jackson, and Janet Murgia are all onstage at the same time. #mlk | |||
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| “ | SJL is performing “Who Am I” a poem-tribute dedicated to Dr. King. #mlk | |||
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| “ | SJL: Work cannot come without action. We have to be willing to die for justice. #mlk | |||
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| “ | SJL: You must litigate for justice. Do not be afraid of using the courts to uphold justice. #mlk | |||
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| “ | SJL says we are in the greatest reactionary period since the reconstruction and post Jim Crow. #mlk | |||
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| “ | SJL: Justice doesn’t come from a law degree. It comes from being willing to die for judtice and using litigation as a tool. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Victoria Rockwell is onstage talking about love – she’s framing her convo around foster care and transracial adoption. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Rockwell is telling stories of her foster mom, prayer, and and learning who God was. #mlk | |||
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| “ | @malaikamose you’re right! | |||
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| “ | Correction: Previous speaker is Victoria Rowell, not Rockwell. Now, Janet Murguia. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Murgia: Part of King’s Dream was that America lives up to its ideals. The tenets of the Constitution and Declaration belong to us. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Murgia: I am a child of Dr. King’s dream. It was universal. And it was a call to action. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Jesse Jackson onstage. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Jackson: How many people have a family member in jail? A family member in foreclosure or behind on their rent? #mlk | |||
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| “ | Jackson: Student loan debt? Credit card debt? Half the room is standing. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Jesse: We got the proclaimaton without the emancipation. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Jackson: Those who came to Ellis Island were welcomed; those who came to Jamestown VA as slaves were not. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Jackson: The march on Washington was an act of defiance. You have to have confrontation & negotiation before you have reconcilliation. #mlk | |||
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| “ | @ElaheIzadi Comedian was Jonathan Slocumb. | |||
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| “ | Jackson is talking about hopes – all legislative actions. “The Tea Party is not new – it’s a new name for an old game!” #mlk | |||
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| “ | Jackson specifically calls out states right supporters as wanting to destroy the civil rights act, bit by bit. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Jackson: We fight back in Dr. King’s name, because we are not afraid. Keep hope alive and march on. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Julian Bond onstage. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Bond discusses being at the March on Washington. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Bond wss talking about being in SNCC, and being asked to hand out cokes to cekebs like Sammy Davis Jr. | |||
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| “ | Remembers MLK as the guy at the grocery store and the bank – they were three houses apart. #mlk | |||
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| “ | Bond: Dr. King was the first man to speak to both blacks and whites in the common language of Christianity. #mlk | |||
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