It is not always easy. but it is the American way. I learned this first as a child at my grandfathers knee. He taught me that in America progress is always possible. His generation moved past the cruel signs in the windows in Boston saying "Irish Need Not Apply" and elected that son of an Irish immigrant as mayor of Boston. I learned that lesson firsthand when I came to the Senate in 1962. Our Nation was finally recognizing that the work of civil rights had not ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. nor with the Supreme Courts decision in Brown v.
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