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RALEIGH — More than 10,000 people filled the streets of downtown Raleigh Saturday to march in the 6th Annual Historic Thousand on Jones Street or "HK on J".

The rally is organized by the NC NAACP, and this year more than 100 other organizations participated. The group's goal is to shed light on issues that impact the entire community.

“Our constitution says we're supposed to govern for the good of the whole, instead we're governing for the good of a few,” said N.C. NAACP president Rev. William Barber.

The mission was centered around a 14-point agenda, highlighting issues from public education to livable wages for low-income workers. They marched for a mile from Shaw University to the state legislative building.

“Let's stop the forces that would move us all backward and that would divide us from ourselves and divide us by our common sense,” said NAACP president Benjamin Jealous.

There was a sea of people with concerns about decisions made in the General Assembly.

“We have people who are striving day to day and they actually need jobs. Education needs to be upheld so they have the funds to support the things they need there as well,” said participant Ruby Pattishaw.

It is a community some say it at the whim of an elite few, but has a chance for change with the voice of many.

“This is the movement that will insert into the veins of North Carolina politics. It's a new ethic and that ethic is rooted in old principles. We are better when we work together as one. We are better when we lift up the bottom because everybody's taken care of,” said Rev. Barber.

People marched for a variety of other causes such as putting an end to the death penalty, environmental justice, and bringing troops home from Afghanistan.