Speech
Trumka at AFL-CIO Civil and Human Rights Conference: We Must Push Ourselves and Society Forward
… Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference: Thank you, Brother Tefere Gebre and Brother Fred Redmond. And thank you to everyone who is joining us this year. The legacy of Dr. King—from his words to his character—is in each of us. In our solidarity, our service, our spirit. And that’s why we know Dr. King’s legacy is still shaped by us—the ones who came after him. We have a moral responsibility to carry forward the torch he lit. Dr. King told us that. And he told us why. In 1968, two Memphis sanitation workers, Echol …