Repeal Prop 8 - Day of Decision
Handing out stickers
Handing out stickers
Mayor Villaraigosa talks to the press at the rally
Mayor Villaraigosa talks to the press at the rally
Attorney Gloria Allred poses with kids at San Vicente and Santa Monica
Attorney Gloria Allred poses with kids at San Vicente and Santa Monica
John Ireland shows his son the camera
John Ireland shows his son the camera
Crowd at San Vicente and Santa Monica
Crowd at San Vicente and Santa Monica
Crowd at San Vicente and Santa Monica
Crowd at San Vicente and Santa Monica
Legislator Mike Feuerstein shows smiles for the camera
Legislator Mike Feuerstein shows smiles for the camera
LHC Exec. Dir. John Henning passes out signs
LHC Exec. Dir. John Henning passes out signs
Actress and Producer Drew Barrymore after speaking at the rally
Actress and Producer Drew Barrymore after speaking at the rally
Neil Leiberman and Lester Aponte at San Vicente and Santa Monica
Neil Leiberman and Lester Aponte at San Vicente and Santa Monica
Demonstrator holds Don't Hate sign
Demonstrator holds Don't Hate sign
LHC members march to Hollywood and Highland with large banner
LHC members march to Hollywood and Highland with large banner
Rally at Hollywood & Highland
Rally at Hollywood & Highland
Marching to Hollywood & Highland
Marching to Hollywood & Highland
Marc Solomon and Andrew Klayman
Marc Solomon and Andrew Klayman
LHC member with rally sign
LHC member with rally sign
Rally at San Vicente & Santa Monica
Rally at San Vicente & Santa Monica
Actress Sophia Bush shows support at the rally
Actress Sophia Bush shows support at the rally
Our sign makes it all the way to Germany
Our sign makes it all the way to Germany

 

 

 

 

Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ’Wait.’ But . . . when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; . . . when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored";  . . . when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness"--then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter From a Birmingham Jail  (April 16, 1963)