“Alistair Cooke Memorial Lecture”
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1 min readDec 23, 2015
“We have made this period of civil rights into a period of consummate triumph. Everyone wants to own it. A great number of people were not for it at the time, and it took tremendous struggle with failure after failure… to bring about the great changes. Nothing in history is really ever new, but nothing ever happens just because it is right”