Name: Mary Frances Berry - “History Teaches Us to Resist” and the Power of Protest | The Daily Show
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-Welcome to The Daily Show. -Well, thank you.

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And before we get into the book, I just wanted to say,

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I honestly have met few people who have lived as much of a life

No. Some people are old, but they haven't lived life.

-Ah. Okay, all right -They really haven't.

Because-because... reading through your story

I mean, you know, you were at the forefront

You know, you were one of the key individuals

who fought for the American government to impose sanctions

on the apartheid government in South Africa.

You've been fighting for equality in America

If you look at MLK Day today, and you look at how people

have warped his message and his image, et cetera,

what do you think is the biggest misconception people have

-about Dr. King? -The biggest misconception

is that Martin Luther King was a dreamer who had a dream.

Every time I go someplace, people get up and say,

"Yes, he was a dreamer, he was always dreaming."

Uh, Martin Luther King believed in the right to vote.

his coming out, as it were, in Washington,

everything would change-- we'd have justice

a year before, they had done the boycott,

he saw, hey, the vote is important and we should get it,

but voting by itself isn't gonna give us justice.

They want you to vote for them, and they want to get re...

get elected, and they want you to vote for them

-(laughs) -But the thing you have to want

-unless you make them do it. -That's really interesting.

Martin Luther King believed in nonviolence.

And the book is about the kind of nonviolent protest

you can engage in which will make change.

It will make government officials who you elected

actually do what they promised they would do.

How interesting that they would actually promise to do something

has to make its own dent in the wall of injustice.

Young people, you know, have to pass it on.

-Mm-hmm. -All the movements that I talk about in that book

So, young people have to pick up the torch

and move forward with it and make their own dent.

And Martin Luther King stood for all of that.

in order to be good and to have a good message.

Uh, what you look at is what people do in the cause

and what sacrifices they're willing to make.

And that doesn't mean that everybody should go out and die.

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