I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.

I don't see any of my colleagues as rivals. I don't think our generation needs to do that. We are a chilled out lot, and we should all be happy.

Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

Martin Luther King belonged to another transcendent generation. A generation born into segregation; a generation freed from racism's restraints by their own efforts; a generation equally determined to see their way as free women and men.