These are comments Lieberman made at the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of of the March on Washington (August 28, 2003).
Their question is the question that your generation and mine must both ask where is America today, when people of color still struggle for the promise of equal opportunity guaranteed by our Constitution, and their leaders still struggle to even get a meeting in the White House. Where are we, when jobs are going away, poverty is going up, incomes are going down, and affirmative action is under challenge?
The answer is we are not where America's national values and purpose require us to be. So the March on Washington must continue until "justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."
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