The movement’s cost includes thousands of broken unremembered lives

Evidence

It was 1957 when I left Paris for Little Rock. 1957. This is 1980, and how many years is that? Nearly a quarter of a century. And what has happened to all those people—children I knew then, and what has happened to this country, and what does this mean for the world? What does this mean for me? Medgar, Malcolm, Martin dead. These men were my friends. All younger than me. But there is another roll call of unknown, invisible people who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on the freedom road. And what does this say concerning the morality of this country or the morality of this age? — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 461

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