It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.