I have waited twenty-two years for this . . . I've waited all my life for this opportunity.
Source: On the 1963 March on Washington, in Voices of Freedom, by Henry Jampton, 1990.
-- A Philip Randolph, (Apr 15 1889-1979), US trade unionist, civil-rights leader; He cofounded The Messenger, 1917; established the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1925; organized a labor protest March on Washington, 1941.