The Bishop of North Carolina, the Rt Revd Michael Curry, said on Wednesday: \u201cThis is a day that I honestly never dreamed I would see. I think about my grandmother, who was the daughter of a sharecropper here in North Carolina. My ancestors were slaves here. My daddy went to jail so folk could vote.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy great-aunt Callie was a Sunday-school teacher at Sixteenth Street Baptist chapel where the little girls were killed in 1960. Somehow, all the things that people did without knowing how it was going to turn out helped to make this moment possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut they never dreamed this. Americans have said what we want to be: a country for all. That was the American dream from the beginning. God blesses us sometimes, in spite of ourselves, and, every once in a while, something happens that says that dream is real, and don\u2019t give up on it for America, and ultimately for the whole world.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n