00:00I am a daughter of the civil rights movement.
00:03I grew up in a family and in a community of adults who spent full time marching and shouting
00:11about this thing called justice.
00:14My sister, Maya, and I, we were raised by a mother who was all of five feet tall.
00:20But if you ever met her, you would have thought she was seven feet tall.
00:25And our mother, she taught us the importance of a good education.
00:30She taught us the good old fashioned value of hard work.
00:36She taught us, don't let anyone tell you who you are, you tell them who you are.
00:47And she taught us not only to dream, but to do.
00:52She taught us to believe in our power to right what is wrong.
01:00And she was the kind of parent that if you ever came home complaining about something,
01:07our mother would look at you, maybe with one hand on her hip and with a very straight face,
01:13she would say, well, what are you going to do about it?
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