martin luther king junior and rabbi robert marks and 700 people marched to that very same park, and during hatred and bigotry, dodging rocks and bottles and hateful words in order to challenge chicago housing segregation and to ask america to live up to our highest ideals, and so at that moment, drawing from the courage of men of different religions of a different time, rhami refused to teach his children to be afraid. i'm stead, he taught them to be a part of legacy of faith and good conscious. i want them to understand that sometimes faith will be tested, he told me, and that we will be asked to show immense courage like others have before us, to make our city, our country, and a world a better reflection of all our ideals, and he put down his rug and he prayed. now, those two stories, they give me courage, and they give me hope. and they instruct me in my own christian faith. i can't imagine a moment in which that young american sergeant expressed his christianity more profoundly than when confronted by his own death he said we are all jews. [ applause ] >> i can't imagine a clearer exp