Sacha Baron Cohen gives powerful speech on 60th anniversary of the March on Washington

On Sunday, thousands of people made the pilgrimage to our nation’s capital to celebrate the 60th anniversary of civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington. Comedian and civil rights advocate Sacha Baron Cohen opened with a joke, saying, “I promise that this is not a prank on you,” before thanking the King family and Al Sharpton for inviting him. He called it “an incredible honor.” Cohen reminisced about doing research on the civil rights era for his college thesis and how welcoming the people at the King Center were to him.

It was during Cohen’s studies that he “learned about how black Americans and Jewish Americans and people of many faiths linked arms together, went to jail together, sacrificed their lives together, and achieved historic victories together for civil rights. The Brave Alliance teaches a lesson that we can never forget when we are united, we can hasten the day, as Dr. King proclaimed, when all of God's children will be able to walk the Earth in decency and honor.”

The video, tweeted by user @WuTangKids, is a reminder of the truths most of us hold to be self-evident, and that should never be forgotten.