I'm Bill Moyer. It's good to have your ear. This week, O Moyers & Company,

50 years after the historic March on Washington, we go back to the scene with John Lewis, who spoke that day half a century ago.

To march on Washington is saying to us today that we can, we can as a nation and as a people,

come together for the coming good and believe again that we can get things done for all

America and not just for some.

We have to pace ourselves because our struggle is not a struggle that lasts for one day, or one

week, a one month, a one year, or one lifetime.

It's an ongoing struggle.

When people are hurting, when people are suffering, you must be ready to move.

You must be ready to act. You must be ready to hang.

Thanks for joining us.

For each of us, there are days that are turning points, a day that changes our personal life,

or a day that changes the nation. Sometimes, very rarely, it's one in the same day.

Just such a day happened to me on Wednesday, August 28, 1963.

I was 29 years old, the deputy director of the Peace Corps, with offices one block from the

White House and a short walk from the Lincoln Memorial.

That morning, largely on impulse, inspired by our friend, I joined the quarter of a million

Americans, people of every age in color, who had come for the march on Washington.

The event is now most famous for Martin Luther King Jr.'s, I have a dream speech.

But like many of the others there, I was first transfixed by one

of the other speakers, the youngest on the platform.

Brother John Lewis.

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