article_snippet: (CNN)In a passionate speech about racial progress in America, President Obama on Saturday told thousands of people who gathered here to commemorate the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" that "our march is not yet finished.
article_snippet: President Obama emphasized that a day of commemoration is not enough to repay the debt paid by the marchers who were brutally beaten 50 years ago as they demonstrated for voting rights.
article_snippet: If Selma taught our anything, it's that our work is never done," President Obama said near Edmund Pettus Bridge, where the confrontation between authorities and marchers was captured in film and photographs that jolted America.
article_snippet: President Obama said that what civil rights marchers did years ago "will reverberate through the ages.
article_snippet: President Obama hailed what civil rights marchers as heroes.
article_snippet: President Obama said that "the Americans who crossed this bridge, they were not physically imposing, but they gave courage to millions.
article_snippet: the President   said that though progress has been made, racism is still too prevalent in America.
article_snippet: We just need to open We eyes, and ears, and hearts, to know that America's racial history still casts this nation's racial history long shadow upon us," the President   said.  