Thousands of people gathered in Montgomery, Alabama, on Wednesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the culmination of the historic march for voting rights. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a third and final march from Selma to Montgomery on March 24, 1965. On Wednesday, King’s daughter, Bernice King, spoke where her father had once stood.

Bernice King: “Fifty years ago, it was malice that would not allow Daddy to speak from the steps of this Capitol. Instead, he spoke his powerful, timeless words from a flatbed truck in the midst of a boisterous and buoyant crowd. Today, I stand where he could not stand, to synthesize our past with our present and to speak those same profound words that he spoke.”