The Reverend Joseph Lowery, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1977-1997) has come out and endorsed Barack Obama. The following is an excerpt from his endorsenment:
"I walked from Selma to Montgomery and beyond with Martin Luther King Jr. with whom I co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and even the sincerest of people often greeted our struggle for civil rights with a plea for patience - "You're right," they'd say, "but the timing isn't. Couldn't you wait just a bit"?
Today, I am proud to march alongside one of the most inspiring leaders our country has seen in a generation. His name is Barack Obama, and he holds out the promise of a new politics steeped in possibility. And once more, we're hearing that tired old refrain.
I may have walked many a mile and many a year, but these legs of mine are willing to walk many miles farther --as many as it takes to see our country's promise of hope real"
The timing is right this time. No more waiting!
