On the recordJanuary 29, 1998
I will never forget the faces of those people who had never been free or had not been for so long they couldn't remember. Do you know what struck me? This is before the freedom had hit. I never saw a single adult ever smile. Never, not one, not one person smiled because of the weight of the oppression. Fortunately, the children were smiling. So you could say, 'There is hope here.' But it had been beaten out of them--the natural nature of human mind. The man that brought the wall down--the Senator from Alabama said it and we will never be able to say it enough--how many people he freed through that show of force. He didn't do it alone. He would be the first one to say so. In fact, he would deny it. He would put somebody else far ahead of him in terms of having created that freedom.
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