Today we in the youth movement remember and give thanks to those who came before us; whose dreams will live on for generations to come. We continue the effort against the “defenders of the status quo” and their “offensive to impose their own schedule of change.”

From Why We Can’t Wait:

As in these two revolutions, a submerged social group, propelled by a burning need for justice, lifting itself with sudden swiftness, moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger, created an uprising so powerful that it shook a huge society from its comfortable base.