- Well, when I first met Martin, we were playing Cub Scout football here in the backyard, I was about seven years of age, but when the game was over, my mother introduced us to Ralph Abernathy, and to Fred Shuttlesworth, and to Andy Young, and, of course, to Martin.
Martin asked me to call him Uncle Mike.
This was a place of privacy for him.
It was a place where he could rest, where he could walk around without his shoes on.
[gentle music] And as time passed and the news reels began to play, and I could see the effect of the conversations held here, starting to reach the nation and then on to the world, it was almost awe-inspiring, to tell you the truth, I did not realize that these men were changing the world.
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