America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.