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(57,936 posts)of the Civil Rights Act.
Starting with expressions of guilt by a number of our Founding Fathers, discussions of freeing slaves and transferring them to land purchased in Africa (James Madison is said to have proposed that plan) to the struggles of the abolitionist movement, to Dred Scott (an enormous setback), to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the 14th and 15th Amendments, to Andrew Johnson's reconstruction, to separate-but-equal, to African-American fighting units in WWII, to integration of the armed forces, to integration in the public schools, to integration of buses and lunch counters, we continue to fight to insure equal opportunity.
There were times when the Civil Rights Movement seemed to be a cruel joke. There were times when it seemed there was no progress.
Things worth achieving take time, hard work and patience.
The 99% is just starting to fight for itself. We will achieve more justice and opportunity. Change that really matters does not happen quickly.