For Samuel DeWitt Proctor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem, New York, New York, May 29, 1997 When I was summoned to this solemn responsibility, I realized that it was but a testimony to the long, enduring friendship that I knew with Samuel Proctor. And I knew then, as I know now, that I was not competent to do this. To measure the meaning and work of Sam Proctor is as if one would take a thimble and try to empty an ocean. It would be as if one sought to measure