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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.80,0:00:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leah Chase: Oh, this is beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.30,0:00:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, gosh, I never saw such a room
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.34,0:00:08.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and beauty and strength\Nlike I'm looking at.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.44,0:00:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's gorgeous. It is.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.60,0:00:12.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a beautiful room.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.93,0:00:17.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pat Mitchell: I almost said your age,\Nbecause you gave me permission,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.23,0:00:19.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I realized that I was\Nabout to make you a year older.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.93,0:00:21.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're only 94.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.75,0:00:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.12,0:00:24.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.75,0:00:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: Yeah, I'm only 94.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.56,0:00:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.98,0:00:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you get this old\Nand parts start wearing out.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.09,0:00:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your legs start wearing out.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.21,0:00:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one thing that my children always say:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.74,0:00:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But nothing happened to your mouth."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.57,0:00:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.03,0:00:44.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you've got to have something going,\Nso I've got my mouth going.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.15,0:00:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.66,0:00:48.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: So Mrs. Chase,\Nthe first time we were there,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.94,0:00:53.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I brought a group of young women,\Nwho work with us at TED,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.11,0:00:54.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the kitchen,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.30,0:00:57.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we were all standing around\Nand you had already cooked lunch
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.32,0:00:59.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for hundreds of people,\Nas you do every day,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.41,0:01:01.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you looked up at them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.35,0:01:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to share with this audience\Nwhat you said to those young women.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.02,0:01:09.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: Well, you know,\NI talk to young women all the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.21,0:01:12.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's beginning to bother me,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.25,0:01:14.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because look how far I came.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.46,0:01:20.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd come with women\Nthat had to really hustle and work hard,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.79,0:01:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they knew how to be women.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.71,0:01:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't play that man down.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.55,0:01:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, well, we didn't have\Nthe education you have today,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.10,0:01:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and God, I'm so proud
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.75,0:01:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I see those women\Nwith all that education under their belt.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.16,0:01:39.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why I worked hard,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.50,0:01:43.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tried to get everybody\Nto use those resources.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.79,0:01:47.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they just don't know their power,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.35,0:01:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I always tell them,\Njust look at my mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.03,0:01:53.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had 12 girls before she had a boy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.50,0:01:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.69,0:01:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you know how I came out.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.18,0:01:57.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.43,0:01:58.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, she had 14 children.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.01,0:02:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She raised 11 of us out of that 14,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.08,0:02:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and up until last year,\Nwe were all still living,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.04,0:02:08.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a bunch of old biddies,\Nbut we're still here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.32,0:02:09.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.67,0:02:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sometimes we can be just cantankerous\Nand blah blah blah blah blah,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.92,0:02:15.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we still go.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.95,0:02:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I love to see women.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.84,0:02:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't know what it does for me
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.98,0:02:24.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see women in the position\Nthat you're in today.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.100,0:02:26.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never thought I'd see that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.94,0:02:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never thought I'd see women
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.30,0:02:34.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be able to take places\Nand positions that we have today.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.62,0:02:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is just a powerful thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.90,0:02:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a young woman come to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.33,0:02:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was an African-American woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.100,0:02:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said, "Well, what do you do, honey?"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.82,0:02:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said, "I am a retired Navy pilot."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.93,0:02:52.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh God, that just melted me,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.60,0:02:58.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I knew how hard it was\Nto integrate that Navy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.64,0:03:04.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the Navy was the last thing\Nto really be integrated,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.32,0:03:08.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was done by Franklin Roosevelt
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.57,0:03:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a favor to an African-American man,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.11,0:03:15.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lester Granger, that I knew very well.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.51,0:03:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was the head of the National\NUrban League back there,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.53,0:03:21.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when Roosevelt asked him,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.83,0:03:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he wanted to appoint Lester\Nas maybe one of his cabinet members.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.11,0:03:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lester said, "No, I don't want that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.47,0:03:32.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All I want you to do\Nis integrate that Navy."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.68,0:03:36.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was what Franklin did.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.14,0:03:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, Franklin didn't live to do it,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.16,0:03:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but Truman did it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.84,0:03:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when this woman told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.46,0:03:45.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I have flown everything there is to fly,"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.64,0:03:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bombers, just all kinds of planes,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.26,0:03:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it just melted me, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.63,0:03:55.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just to see how far women have come.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.67,0:03:56.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I told her, I said,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.94,0:04:00.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, you could get\Ninto the space program."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.13,0:04:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said, "But Ms. Chase, I'm too old."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.33,0:04:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was already 60-some years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.83,0:04:07.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, you know, you're over the hill then.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.85,0:04:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.22,0:04:13.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't want you flying\Nup in the sky at 60-something years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.71,0:04:14.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay on the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.99,0:04:18.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I meet women,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.34,0:04:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and today everybody comes to my kitchen,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.78,0:04:22.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know that,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.30,0:04:24.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it upsets Stella, my daughter.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.54,0:04:26.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She doesn't like people\Ncoming in the kitchen.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.84,0:04:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's where I am,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.32,0:04:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's where you're going\Nto see me, in the kitchen.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.19,0:04:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when they come there,\NI meet all kinds of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.21,0:04:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is the thing\Nthat really uplifts me,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.34,0:04:39.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is when I meet women on the move.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.46,0:04:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I meet women on the move,\Nit is good for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.76,0:04:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I'm not one of these\Nflag-waving women.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.48,0:04:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not going to see me\Nout there waving.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.90,0:04:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, I don't do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.95,0:04:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.98,0:04:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, I don't do that, and I don't want\Nany of you to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.03,0:04:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just be good women.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.28,0:05:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know, my mother taught us ...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.74,0:05:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she was tough on us,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.20,0:05:04.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she said, "You know, Leah,"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.90,0:05:07.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she gave us all this plaque,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.33,0:05:11.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"to be a good woman,\Nyou have to first look like a girl."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.40,0:05:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I thought I looked like a girl.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.06,0:05:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Act like a lady."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.60,0:05:17.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That, I never learned to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.19,0:05:19.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.09,0:05:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Think like a man."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.08,0:05:23.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now don't act like that man;\Nthink like a man.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.68,0:05:25.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And "work like a dog."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.13,0:05:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.34,0:05:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we learned that the hard way.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.10,0:05:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they taught you that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.01,0:05:35.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They taught you what women had to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.16,0:05:39.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were taught that women\Ncontrolled the behavior of men.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.91,0:05:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How you act, they will act.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.06,0:05:46.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you've got to do that,\Nand I tell you all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.28,0:05:49.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, don't play this man down.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.29,0:05:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It upsets me when you may have a husband
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.10,0:05:59.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that maybe he doesn't have as much\Neducation under his belt as you have,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.44,0:06:02.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but still you can't play him down.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.15,0:06:05.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got to keep lifting him up,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.26,0:06:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you don't want\Nto live with a mouse.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.58,0:06:11.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you want that man to be a man,\Nand do what he has to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.48,0:06:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And anyway, always remember,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.76,0:06:16.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he runs on cheap gas.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.81,0:06:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.14,0:06:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So fill him up with cheap gas --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.58,0:06:23.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.48,0:06:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then, you got him.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.03,0:06:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just so --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.40,0:06:29.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.06,0:06:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.44,0:06:32.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: You have to give us\Na minute to take that in.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.84,0:06:35.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.42,0:06:39.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: When I heard this young lady\Nspeak before I came out --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.43,0:06:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she was so beautiful,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.99,0:06:44.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I wished I could be like that,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.21,0:06:45.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my husband, poor darling --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.71,0:06:48.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lost him after\Nwe were married 70 years --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.76,0:06:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,didn't agree on one thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.66,0:06:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never did, nothing,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.25,0:06:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we got along together
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.70,0:06:57.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he learned to understand me,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.25,0:06:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was just hard,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.39,0:07:01.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he was so different.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.44,0:07:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that lady reminded me.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.19,0:07:05.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "If I would have\Njust been like her,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.97,0:07:08.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dooky would have really loved it."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.29,0:07:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.76,0:07:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I wasn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.94,0:07:13.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was always pushy, always moving,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.84,0:07:15.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,always doing this,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.30,0:07:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he used to come to me\Nall the time, and he said,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.53,0:07:20.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Honey, God's going to punish you."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.22,0:07:21.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.79,0:07:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You -- you're just not grateful."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.92,0:07:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it isn't that I'm not grateful,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.16,0:07:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I think, as long as you're living,\Nyou've got to keep moving,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.58,0:07:31.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you've got to keep trying to get up
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.44,0:07:32.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and do what you've got to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.92,0:07:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.95,0:07:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You cannot sit down.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.15,0:07:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to keep going,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.08,0:07:39.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,keep trying to do a little bit every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.92,0:07:41.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every day, you do a little bit,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.64,0:07:43.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,try to make it better.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.09,0:07:44.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's been my whole life.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.89,0:07:48.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I came up\Nin the country, small town,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.38,0:07:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had to do everything,\Nhad to haul the water,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.77,0:07:53.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had to wash the clothes, do this, do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.33,0:07:55.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pick the dumb strawberries,\Nall that kind of stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.02,0:07:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.04,0:08:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But still, my daddy insisted\Nthat we act nice,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.35,0:08:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we be kind.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.79,0:08:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's all.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.05,0:08:06.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I heard this young woman --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.64,0:08:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh, she sounds so beautiful --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.12,0:08:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "I wish I could be like that."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.92,0:08:15.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: Mrs. Chase, we don't want you\Nto be any different than you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.16,0:08:16.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no question about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.71,0:08:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me ask you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.36,0:08:20.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is why it's so wonderful\Nto have a conversation
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.86,0:08:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with someone who has such a long view --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.96,0:08:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: A long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.14,0:08:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: to remembering Roosevelt
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.51,0:08:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the person he did that favor for.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.34,0:08:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is in your head and your mind
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.30,0:08:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what you have seen and witnessed ...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.25,0:08:37.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the things that it's good\Nto remember, always,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.65,0:08:40.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that when you opened that restaurant,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.46,0:08:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whites and blacks could not\Neat together in this city.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.04,0:08:46.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was against the law.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.69,0:08:50.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet they did, at Dooky Chase.\NTell me about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.86,0:08:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: They did, there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.30,0:08:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, my mother-in-law first started this,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.36,0:08:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the reason she started is,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.23,0:09:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because her husband was sickly,\Nand he would go out --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.25,0:09:07.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people from Chicago\Nand all the places,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.34,0:09:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would call his job a numbers runner.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.93,0:09:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in New Orleans,\Nwe are very sophisticated --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.12,0:09:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.14,0:09:17.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it wasn't a numbers runner,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.88,0:09:19.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was a lottery vendor.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.96,0:09:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.65,0:09:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you see, we put class to that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.69,0:09:24.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's how he did it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.96,0:09:29.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he couldn't go from house to house\Nto get his clients and all that,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.02,0:09:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he was sick,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.48,0:09:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so she opened up\Nthis little sandwich shop,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.98,0:09:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so she was going to take down the numbers,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.90,0:09:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he was sick a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.51,0:09:44.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had ulcers. He was really bad\Nfor a long a time.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.40,0:09:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she did that --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.76,0:09:48.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not knowing anything,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.57,0:09:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but she knew she could make a sandwich.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.50,0:09:51.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She knew she could cook,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.97,0:09:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she borrowed 600 dollars\Nfrom a brewery.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.27,0:10:00.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine starting\Na business today with 600 dollars
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.77,0:10:03.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no knowledge of what you're doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.79,0:10:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it always just amazed me\Nwhat she could do.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.100,0:10:09.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was a good money manager.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.81,0:10:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That, I am not.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.75,0:10:14.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My husband used to call me\Na bankrupt sister.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.43,0:10:15.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.89,0:10:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"She'll spend everything you got."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.55,0:10:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.95,0:10:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: But you kept\Nthe restaurant open, though,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.08,0:10:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even in those times of controversy,\Nwhen people were protesting
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.59,0:10:27.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and almost boycotting.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.33,0:10:30.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it was a controversial move\Nthat you and your husband made.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.93,0:10:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: It was, and I don't\Nknow how we did it,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.03,0:10:36.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but as I said, my mother-in-law\Nwas a kind, kind person,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.94,0:10:41.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you didn't have any African-Americans\Non the police force at that time.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.77,0:10:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were all white.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.38,0:10:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they would come around,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.26,0:10:46.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she would say,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.85,0:10:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Bebe, I'm gonna fix you\Na little sandwich."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.08,0:10:51.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she would fix them a sandwich.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.84,0:10:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today they would call that bribery.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.86,0:10:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.96,0:10:58.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But she was just that kind of person.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.65,0:11:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She liked to do things for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.27,0:11:01.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She liked to give.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.95,0:11:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she would do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.07,0:11:05.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe that helped us out,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.48,0:11:07.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because nobody ever bothered us.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.42,0:11:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had Jim Dombrowski, Albert Ben Smith,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.34,0:11:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who started all kinds of things\Nright in that restaurant,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.32,0:11:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nobody ever bothered us.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.32,0:11:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we just did it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.98,0:11:22.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: Excuse me.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.16,0:11:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You talked to me that day
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.26,0:11:28.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the fact that people considered\Nthe restaurant a safe haven
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.53,0:11:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they could come together,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.26,0:11:33.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,particularly if they were working\Non civil rights,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.59,0:11:34.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human rights,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.89,0:11:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working to change the laws.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.08,0:11:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: Well, because once\Nyou got inside those doors,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.86,0:11:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nobody ever, ever bothered you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.95,0:11:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The police would never come in
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.24,0:11:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bother our customers, never.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.08,0:11:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they felt safe to come there.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.52,0:11:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They could eat, they could plan.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.71,0:11:55.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the Freedom Riders,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.44,0:11:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's where they planned\Nall their meetings.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.15,0:12:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They would come and we would\Nserve them a bowl of gumbo
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.36,0:12:03.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fried chicken.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.54,0:12:04.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.58,0:12:07.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I said, we'd changed\Nthe course of America
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.71,0:12:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over a bowl of gumbo\Nand some fried chicken.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.28,0:12:14.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.02,0:12:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like to invite the leaders, now,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.05,0:12:20.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just come have a bowl of gumbo\Nand some fried chicken,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.93,0:12:23.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talk it over and we'd go\Nand we'd do what we have to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.75,0:12:25.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.88,0:12:27.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's all we did.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.31,0:12:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: Could we send you a list\Nto invite to lunch?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.56,0:12:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.68,0:12:32.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: Yeah, invite.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.92,0:12:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because that's what we're not doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.09,0:12:36.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not talking.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.97,0:12:38.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come together.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.21,0:12:41.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't care if you're a Republican\Nor what you are -- come together.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.59,0:12:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.80,0:12:44.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know those old guys.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.08,0:12:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was friends with those old guys,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.73,0:12:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Tip O'Neill and all of those people.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.19,0:12:51.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They knew how to come together and talk,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.26,0:12:54.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you would disagree maybe.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.86,0:12:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.16,0:12:59.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you would talk, and we would come\Nto a good thing and meet.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.16,0:13:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so that's what we did\Nin that restaurant.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.04,0:13:05.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They would plan the meeting,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.18,0:13:08.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oretha's mother, Oretha Haley's mother.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.28,0:13:09.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was big in CORE.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.94,0:13:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her mother worked for me for 42 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.31,0:13:15.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she was like me.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.33,0:13:17.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't understand the program.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.94,0:13:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody our age understood this program,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.62,0:13:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we sure didn't want\Nour children to go to jail.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.89,0:13:27.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, that was ... oh God.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.71,0:13:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But these young people\Nwere willing to go to jail
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.52,0:13:31.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for what they believed.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.79,0:13:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were working with Thurgood\Nand A.P. Tureaud and all those people
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.32,0:13:38.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the NAACP.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.19,0:13:40.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that was a slow move.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.20,0:13:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We would still be out here trying\Nto get in the door, waiting for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.78,0:13:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.84,0:13:48.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: Is that Thurgood Marshall\Nyou're talking about?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.28,0:13:50.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: Thurgood Marshall.\NBut I loved Thurgood.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.41,0:13:51.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was a good movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.92,0:13:56.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They wanted to do this\Nwithout offending anybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.46,0:13:58.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll never forget A.P. Tureaud:
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.23,0:14:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But you can't offend the white people.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.15,0:14:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't offend them."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.81,0:14:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But these young people didn't care.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.70,0:14:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, "We're going.\NReady or not, we're going to do this."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.46,0:14:11.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we had to support them.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.59,0:14:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These were the children we knew,\Nrighteous children.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.93,0:14:16.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had to help them.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.58,0:14:19.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: And they brought the change.\NLC: And they brought the change.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.68,0:14:21.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, it was hard,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.60,0:14:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but sometimes you do\Nhard things to make changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.78,0:14:27.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: And you've seen\Nso many of those changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.34,0:14:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The restaurant has been a bridge.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.17,0:14:33.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have been a bridge\Nbetween the past and now,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.65,0:14:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you don't live in the past, do you?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.16,0:14:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You live very much in the present.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.19,0:14:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: And that's what you have to tell\Nyoung people today.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.41,0:14:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, you can protest,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.42,0:14:46.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but put the past behind you.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.60,0:14:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't make you responsible\Nfor what your grandfather did.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.27,0:14:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's your grandfather.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.84,0:14:54.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to build on that.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.81,0:14:56.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to make changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.09,0:14:58.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't stay there and say,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.54,0:15:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, well, look what they did to us then.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.56,0:15:01.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look what they do to us now."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.97,0:15:03.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, you remember that,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.68,0:15:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that makes you keep going on,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.99,0:15:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you don't harp on it every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.46,0:15:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You move,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.65,0:15:11.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you move to make a difference,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.54,0:15:15.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everybody should be involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.36,0:15:16.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My children said,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.60,0:15:18.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Mother, don't get political," you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.73,0:15:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.74,0:15:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't get political, because you know\Nwe don't like that."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.82,0:15:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you have to be political today.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.54,0:15:28.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to be involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.93,0:15:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be a part of the system.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.74,0:15:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look how it was when we couldn't be\Na part of the system.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.06,0:15:37.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Dutch Morial became the mayor,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.74,0:15:41.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was a different feeling\Nin the African-American community.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.34,0:15:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We felt a part of things.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.89,0:15:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we've got a mayor.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.75,0:15:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We feel like we belong.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.01,0:15:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moon tried before Dutch came.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.31,0:15:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: Mayor Landrieu's father,\NMoon Landrieu.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.35,0:15:57.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: Mayor Landrieu's father,\Nhe took great, great risks
Dialogue: 0,0:15:57.26,0:16:01.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by putting African-Americans in city hall.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.48,0:16:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He took a whipping for that\Nfor a long time,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.99,0:16:07.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he was a visionary,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.27,0:16:12.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he did those things that he knew\Nwas going to help the city.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.37,0:16:14.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knew we had to get involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.68,0:16:16.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's what we have to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.68,0:16:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't harp on that.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.99,0:16:19.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just keep moving,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.60,0:16:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Mitch, you know,\NI tell Moon all the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.98,0:16:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You did a good thing,"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.69,0:16:28.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but Mitch did one bigger than you\Nand better than you.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.53,0:16:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he pulled those statues down,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.28,0:16:31.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "Boy, you're crazy!"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:31.73,0:16:34.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.44,0:16:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're crazy.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.99,0:16:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was a good political move.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.01,0:16:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, when I saw\NP.T. Beauregard come down,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.00,0:16:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was sitting looking at the news,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.05,0:16:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it just hit me\Nwhat this was all about.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.53,0:16:54.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To me, it wasn't about race;\Nit was a political move.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.64,0:16:56.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I got so furious,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.97,0:16:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got back on that kitchen\Nthe next morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.05,0:17:02.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said, come on, pick up\Nyour pants, and let's go to work,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.16,0:17:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you're going to get left behind.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:04.24,0:17:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what you have to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.78,0:17:07.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to move on people,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:07.53,0:17:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,move on what they do.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.29,0:17:12.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was going to bring\Nvisibility to the city.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.73,0:17:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you got that visibility --\Nmove on it, uplift yourself,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.67,0:17:18.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do what you have to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.33,0:17:20.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and do it well.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.20,0:17:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's all we do.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.46,0:17:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's all I try to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:22.79,0:17:26.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: But you just gave\Nthe formula for resilience. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.97,0:17:32.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you are clearly the best example\Nwe could find anywhere of resilience,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.38,0:17:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so there must be something you think --
Dialogue: 0,0:17:34.64,0:17:36.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: I like emotional strength.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.26,0:17:40.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like people with emotional\Nand physical strength,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.08,0:17:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe that's bad for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.91,0:17:48.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My favorite all-time general\Nwas George Patton.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.75,0:17:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, that wasn't too cool.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.96,0:17:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.23,0:17:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: It's surprising.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.44,0:17:57.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: I've got George Patton\Nhanging in my dining room
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.100,0:18:00.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I want to remember.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.48,0:18:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He set goals for himself,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.38,0:18:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was going to set out\Nto reach those goals.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:06.07,0:18:07.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He never stopped.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.75,0:18:10.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I always remember his words:
Dialogue: 0,0:18:10.08,0:18:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lead, follow, or get out of the way."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.20,0:18:14.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I can't lead --
Dialogue: 0,0:18:14.73,0:18:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.90,0:18:17.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't be a leader,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.70,0:18:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I can follow a good leader,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.78,0:18:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I am not getting out of the way.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:22.13,0:18:23.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.61,0:18:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's just what you have to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.05,0:18:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.49,0:18:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you can't lead --
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.59,0:18:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaders need followers,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.86,0:18:37.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so if I help you up there,\NI'm going to ride on your coattails,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.89,0:18:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I can't count\Nthe coattails I've ridden upon.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.77,0:18:42.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.37,0:18:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Feed you good. You'll help me out.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.04,0:18:45.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.16,0:18:47.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what life is all about.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.64,0:18:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody can do something,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.70,0:18:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but please get involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.02,0:18:54.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do something.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.23,0:18:58.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing we have to do\Nin this city, in all cities --
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.77,0:19:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mommas have to start being mommas today.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.99,0:19:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.16,0:19:06.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have to start understanding --
Dialogue: 0,0:19:06.19,0:19:08.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you bring this child in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:08.72,0:19:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to make a man out of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:10.52,0:19:12.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to make a woman out of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.59,0:19:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it takes some doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.03,0:19:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It takes sacrifice.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:15.99,0:19:19.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you won't have the long fingernails,\Nmaybe you won't have the pretty hair.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.42,0:19:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that child will be on the move,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.42,0:19:24.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's what you have to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.97,0:19:27.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to concentrate on educating
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.15,0:19:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and making these children understand\Nwhat it's all about.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.17,0:19:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I hate to tell you, gentlemen,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.29,0:19:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's going to take\Na good woman to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.81,0:19:40.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's going to take\Na good woman to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.01,0:19:42.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:19:42.04,0:19:43.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Men can do their part.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.88,0:19:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other part is to just do\Nwhat you have to do
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.18,0:19:47.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bring it home,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:47.38,0:19:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we can handle the rest,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.09,0:19:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we will handle the rest.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.23,0:19:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're a good woman, you can do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.38,0:19:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: You heard that first here.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:54.92,0:19:56.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can handle the rest.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:56.31,0:19:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: We can handle the rest.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.07,0:20:00.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mrs. Chase, thank you so much --
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.08,0:20:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:01.26,0:20:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PM: for taking time out from the work\Nyou do every day in this community.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.44,0:20:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LC: But you don't know\Nwhat this does for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:07.62,0:20:10.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I see all of these people,\Nand come together --
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.33,0:20:13.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people come to my kitchen\Nfrom all over the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:13.75,0:20:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had people come from London,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:16.31,0:20:18.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now twice this happened to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:18.64,0:20:22.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First a man came, and I don't know\Nwhy he came to this --
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.68,0:20:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every year, the chefs do something\Ncalled "Chef's Charity."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.04,0:20:32.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, it so happened\NI was the only woman there,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.76,0:20:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the only African-American there
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.30,0:20:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on that stage doing these demonstrations,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:38.22,0:20:41.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I would not leave until I saw\Nanother woman come up there, too.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.84,0:20:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not going up -- they're going\Nto carry me up there
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.46,0:20:46.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until you bring another woman up here.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.34,0:20:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:20:48.09,0:20:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they have another one now,\Nso I could step down.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.16,0:20:53.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this man was from London.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:54.02,0:20:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So after that, I found the man\Nin my kitchen.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.96,0:20:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He came to my kitchen,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:58.86,0:21:01.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said, "I want\Nto ask you one question."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:01.17,0:21:04.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, I thought I was going to ask\Nsomething about food.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.30,0:21:08.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why do all these white men\Nhang around you?"
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.34,0:21:10.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:21:10.48,0:21:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:11.66,0:21:13.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:21:13.48,0:21:15.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn't understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:15.11,0:21:17.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He couldn't understand that.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:17.16,0:21:18.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "We work together.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.97,0:21:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the way we live in this city.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.57,0:21:24.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I may never go to your house,\Nyou may never come to my house.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:24.64,0:21:26.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when it comes to working,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.30,0:21:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like raising money\Nfor this special school,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.08,0:21:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we come together.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.92,0:21:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we do.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:32.22,0:21:35.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And still here comes another, a woman,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:35.21,0:21:36.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,elegantly dressed,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:36.81,0:21:39.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about a month ago in my kitchen.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:39.83,0:21:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said, "I don't understand\Nwhat I see in your dining room."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:44.27,0:21:45.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "What do you see?"
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.96,0:21:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She saw whites and blacks together.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:48.74,0:21:50.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we do.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.32,0:21:52.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We meet. We talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.57,0:21:54.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we work together,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.30,0:21:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's what we have to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.22,0:21:59.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't have to be my best friend\Nto work to better your city,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.96,0:22:01.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to better your country.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.66,0:22:05.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just have to come together and work,\Nand that's what we do in this city.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:05.65,0:22:07.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're a weird bunch down here.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:07.88,0:22:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.12,0:22:11.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody understands us,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.50,0:22:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we feed you well.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.11,0:22:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:22:15.38,0:22:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:22:19.78,0:22:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Cheering)
Dialogue: 0,0:22:20.82,0:22:21.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:22.00,0:22:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)