"I think as a nation we've come a long way, but we have a long way to go. And as we elders get weary, the children are going to have to be the ones to take us wherever we need to go."

Joanne Bland was 11 years old when she marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Heading from Selma toward Montgomery, the activists were committed to securing voting rights for all Americans, but on March 7, 1965, they were violently attacked by law enforcement officers. It became known as Bloody Sunday.

John interviewed Joanne at her home in Selma in August 2015, just 12 days after Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, and the city was gripped by protests. She spoke of the pain of watching televised footage from Ferguson that reminded her of scenes she witnessed in Selma 50 years earlier.

Your prompts for the day:

• Was there a cause you were passionate about as a youth? How did that interest begin?

• Think of someone in your life who's been hard to have an honest conversation with. What gets in the way and what might help you move past that?

You can hear more of Joanne's story at APeaceOfMyMind.org.