Testimonials

"Hi Bob, What can I say except that you are extraordinary. Always such passion and electricity when you speak. All that I can say is THANK YOU, yet again. loads of love, Linda" (Linda Shapiro - Events Coordinator for the Hamptons, Obama Rally, East Hampton December 2008)

"We met at the AHS meetings in Boston.I bought your wonderful book and recently finished it.  You tell a great story - and it helps to have great material.  You are an inspiration.  Not to sound trite, but consider this a thank you for your lifetime of activism.  It has made our world a better place even on the worse days. One of my students was writing a paper on SNCC and I leant him your book.  He is married, has two kids, works full time and goes to school full time, so he is not a guy with a lot of free time, and he emailed me that very night raving about how wonderful the book was. He followed that comment with, 'I have since put it on my Christmas list!' So, thanks for inspiring not just me but my students as well." (November, 2008, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia College, MO)

St. Paul's School, Concord, NH, July 2008

"We couldn't believe that they're looking through the book on Civil Rights and talking about all the people they know: Mr. Bond and Mr. Zellner are like, just ordinary people! That really surprised us!" (student).

As people were walking out of the Memorial Hall, it was later told to me that more then a few were saying, "I wish we didn't have to go to sports, I wanted to here their answers to more questions. It was very inspirational." (students).

"This was great; we stayed up late into the night discussing this." (Bill Matthews--rector of the school).

"I haven't sung 'We Shall Overcome' in 50 years. It was inspirational for us, too, and brought back many good memories." (faculty member).

"Mike, this was great. I was in Vietnam for part of the Civil Rights Movement and this is causing me to reflect that I didn't do enough during that time for the Civil Rights Movement. Maybe we can spend some time talking about this some more." (faculty member).