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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.32,0:00:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ABIGAIL DEVILLE:\N"If there is no struggle there is no progress."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.01,0:00:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet\Ndepreciate agitation,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.34,0:00:22.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"are men who want crops without plowing up\Nthe ground,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.80,0:00:27.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"they want rain without thunder and lightning."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.84,0:00:34.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They want the ocean without the awful roar\Nof its many waters."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.38,0:00:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Frederick Douglass, August 4th, 1857.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.84,0:00:45.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Abigail DeVille: "Light of Freedom"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.54,0:00:58.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Madison Square Park]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.92,0:01:04.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Initially, I found the\NFrederick Douglass quote,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.70,0:01:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was just me\Nthinking about a way to
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.28,0:01:12.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,quickly contextualize what happened this summer.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.02,0:01:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it was the images that he painted.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.26,0:01:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just kept thinking about the rolling waves,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.06,0:01:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just the waves of people that\Nhooked each other, arm in arm,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.32,0:01:28.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and protested in the face of, potentially,\Ndeath,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.76,0:01:30.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through this pandemic,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.75,0:01:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to fight for whatever this nation\Nactually pretends
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.87,0:01:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it was founded or based on.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.62,0:02:04.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a commemoration of the Black Lives Matter\Nprotests and movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.41,0:02:09.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Black lives here in this continent\Nfor 400 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.83,0:02:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I was placing the arms,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.78,0:02:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinking about the kinds of ways in which\Neverything could have been so different,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.14,0:02:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there have been opportunities and moments\Nthat have been missed,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.95,0:02:27.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cyclically in New York history and in the\Nnation's history as a whole:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.96,0:02:30.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moments for progress
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.35,0:02:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or moments that potentially the playing field\Nwas going to be evened out.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.22,0:02:43.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a really awesome fourth grade teacher,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.96,0:02:45.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her name was Mrs. Hammond.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.58,0:02:47.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was spectacular.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.17,0:02:49.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She really made history come alive for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.66,0:02:54.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She played for us Martin Luther King's\N"I Have A Dream" speech on vinyl,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.29,0:02:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you could hear a pin drop in that classroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.59,0:03:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just remember holding my best friend's hand\Nunderneath the table the entire time
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.06,0:03:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just being so moved by his words
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.74,0:03:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the power of his words.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.42,0:03:10.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She planted a seed, for sure,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.60,0:03:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of thinking about how we're all participants\Nwithin history.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.20,0:03:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seeing images of the Statue of Liberty's hand\Nwith torch in the park,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.01,0:03:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was just like, "Okay, now I can stop looking."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.01,0:03:25.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This is it."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.19,0:03:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It's everything that I'm thinking about--"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.42,0:03:29.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"everything I want to talk about."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.00,0:03:33.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The torch and the hand of the Statue of Liberty
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.70,0:03:39.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sat in this park for six years\Nfrom 1876 to 1882
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.48,0:03:42.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while they were trying to fundraise\Nfor the pedestal
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.92,0:03:44.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the Statue of Liberty.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.29,0:03:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love scaffolding.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.44,0:03:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's ubiquitous here in New York City.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.81,0:03:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things have always been constructed\Nand torn down.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.76,0:04:04.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This idea of freedom is under continual construction--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.82,0:04:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reconstruction--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.88,0:04:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from generation to generation.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.11,0:04:16.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thinking about bells being another symbol\Nof liberty,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.34,0:04:19.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then encaged within this torch,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.51,0:04:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it actually can't really make a sound.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.83,0:04:26.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That also is the fuel of the torch,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.87,0:04:30.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also blue fire being the hottest fire\Nthat there is.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.18,0:04:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Society has tried to separate us or define\Nus by our bodies
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.38,0:04:44.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or where we live--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.60,0:04:49.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or socioeconomic class, education, everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.59,0:04:56.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then how collectively we can\Nlink our arms together
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.79,0:05:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and assert something else.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.47,0:05:11.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think making that work,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.47,0:05:13.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was, in a way, like a prayer or a hope
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.94,0:05:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for something for the future--
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.40,0:05:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to bring names from the past into the present.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.47,0:05:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then to continue the descension--
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.33,0:05:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to pass the baton to honor the collective.