We've only got one (assistant) at Long Creek and we're supposed to have three like at Greenlee. I hope we're not finding loopholes to not do what we're supposed to do.

The children need to have representation in their schools. You're forgetting about black children, trying to find loopholes. I'm not a lawyer, but I know what's right and wrong. If it was the other way around, you'd be fussing.

It doesn't make any kind of sense.

I don't mean to suggest that our hometown was perfect. We never thought it was, even then. Hope was segregated, like the rest of the South. It had its share of human frailty and vice. But kids were taught, growing up, to respect the dignity of each individual. There was a genuine sense of community in Hope, that crossed income lines and in many ways, race as well.

We hope this has a snowball effect and that more arrests will be made soon.

Hope remains when pride is gone,And it keeps you moving on. . . .