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hospital, we'd have enough left over to equip two armies. We'd
have enough left from our trillion dollars to put aside, at 10%
interest, enough money to pay a salary of $25,000 dollars for an
army of 10,000 nurses and $25,000 dollars for an army of 10,000
teachers.

And those families with the houses and the cars? We'd have
enough left over to give each family in those six states an
annual cash allowance of $5,000 dollars - not just for one year,
but for forever. (1)

For too many Americans, civil rights is a spectator sport, a
kind of NBA in which all the players are Black and the spectators white.

But in this true to life game, the players are of every
color and condition, the fate of all fans tied to points scored
on the floor. When the right team wins, the spectators win too.

When four little girls died in a Birmingham church bombing,
Sally Ride won the right to shoot the moon.

Because Black students faced arrest at Southern lunch
counters almost 30 years ago, the law their bodies wrote now
protects older Americans from age discrimination, Jews and
Moslems and Christians from religious bigotry, and the disable
from exclusion because of their condition.

When the struggle for civil rights began to intensify three
decades ago, we knew it would be hard fought and never cost free.

But we hoped the American people would bear the burden and

1. Paraphrased from Harry G. Shaffer, Republic Airlines
Magazine, May, 1986.