[The] African-American epic is your story, the particular and universal story of captivity and struggle, of enslavement and deliverance, the account of long wandering and searching for clouds and fiery pillars and holy rivers. This freedom movement history is your story, my story, our story of sacrificed heroes and the call to life instead of murderous revenge ... Because this is our story we must surely take responsibility for telling it. Because it is written in blood and undergirded by lives of extraordinary dedication it must not be forgotten ... Creatively sharing it with the children of our communities, whose hunger for authentic life goes deep, opening it to the adults whose daily experience too often has no transformative meaning -- from this base we begin.
- Vincent Harding
from his book Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement
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