Remarks on the 35th anniversary of the march on Washington in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, August 31, 1998

Thank you, and God bless you.

NOTE: The President spoke at 2:54 p.m. in the Union Chapel. In his remarks, he referred to Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., professor, Harvard University Law School; Henry L. Gates, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois professor of humanities, Harvard University; Anita Hill, former professor, University of Oklahoma Law School; A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., former Chief Judge, Third Circuit; author Marianne Larned; performers Sabrina Luening and Elza Minor; students Sebastian Corwin, Giles Welch, Olivia Lew, Mia Gonsalves, and Rebecca Chastang; James H. Bryan, president, Union Chapel; Representative John Lewis and his wife, Lillian; and State President Nelson Mandela of South Africa.