58 years ago today, a preacher from Georgia stood on these steps and declared, in the face of racism and economic justice, a nightmare — a nightmare that was lengthened by congressional and state filibustering. 
It was not an abstract dream, but a concrete hope rooted in a dream for jobs, living wages, voting rights, and justice that Dr. King wanted his children and all children and generations to know.
The moral and constitutional crisis we face today is the direct result of forces in state legislatures that organized to push back against the political power that was mobilized here 58 years ago today.
We may not all be under the same banner, but we’re in the same battle. We must build movement together at the state level if we are going to change the actions in Congress in DC. There is power in coming together!
We must stick together and we must fight together for all of our demands. And if we do it, God will help us. The Spirit will help us. The ancestors will help us. And one day, the whole nation and world will thank us.
Together we will change this nation. It’s time to believe again. It’s time to believe this heart and soul of this democracy can live.
With every breath we have, while we still have time, together let’s rise up and to do more to build a true one America that works for all of us.
With every breath we have, while we still have time, together let’s rise up and to do more to build a true one America that works for all of us.
And when we all get together, what a day of rejoicing, what a day of justice, what a day that will be.
#ForwardTogether, not one step back!
#ForwardTogether, not one step back!
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