Democrats in Congress needed to be sent a simple message: "Get some backbone."We march in the driving rain because we want the nation to understand that what has been fought for and gained, that you're going to need more than one election to turn it around,"Dr Al Sharpton the National Leader

"We will march until hell freezes over, and when it does, we will march on the ice," Dr Cornell William Brooks, President and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.