Speech
Trumka on the 57th Anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing: We Can Be Moved Forward
… what happened in your home—a sacred place of both tragedy and unity. Reverend Barber and I have come together today to raise up the voices of the labor movement, the civil rights movement and people of faith everywhere in defense of our … love over hate. Fifty-seven years ago today, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Denise McNair came to church to be closer to God. And that morning they entered eternity. We'll forever wonder how many more aprons Addie Mae … We were fighting to change ourselves. We believe that people can change and grow and overcome so that history can be made right. We believe that people—and we, the people—don’t stay in the same place forever. We can be moved forward. After all, …