"these people are living, hour by hour, the ideals which this country has often thought about, but not yet managed to practice: they are courageous, though afraid; they live and work together in a brotherhood of black and white. Southerner and Northerner, Jew and Christian and agnostic, the likes of which this country has not yet seen. They are creating new definitions of success, of happiness, of democracy. It is just possible that the momentum created by their enormous energy-now directed against racial separation-may surge, before it can be contained, against other barriers which keep people apart in the world: poverty, and nationalism, and all tyranny over the minds and bodies of men. If so, the United States may truly be on the verge of a revolution-nonviolent, but sweeping in its consequences and led by those who, perhaps, are most dependable in a revolution: the young."
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