Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

Jesus is who saved me. He's what keeps me full and whole.

Jesus is eternally right. History is replete with the bleached bones of nations that refused to listen to him.

We must love our white brothers, no matter what they do to us. We must make them know that we love them. Jesus still cries out in words that echo across the centuries.

We are here, we are here this evening because we're tired now. And I want to say that we are not here advocating violence. We have never done that. I want it to be known throughout Montgomery and throughout this nation that we are Christian people. We believe in the Christian religion. We believe in the teachings of Jesus.