Yet we came together literally in two or three years, because of the military and the industrial capacity of the country. We won. I'm thinking back, you know, when I was a kid, Schools were segregated, black people could not drink at a bloody water fountain. And we overcame that. Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, the gay rights movement, and this country, you know, workers struggling to form unions, getting killed, beaten up, but they were able to do it. (1:51:55–1:51:59)
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