I don’t know how many of you would be able to write a history book. But you are certainly making history, and you are experiencing history. And you will make it possible for the historians of the future to write a marvelous chapter. Never in the history of this nation have so many people been arrested for the cause of freedom and human dignity!” When the cheers died down, he said, almost in disbelief, “You know, there are approximately twenty-five hundred people in jail right now.”
