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JESSE JACKSON : A Tribute (Part 3 of 3) The 1988 Address to Democratic National Convention · BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback

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SPEAKER_00: I'm Rhino Wallace, your host, Rhino Wallace Presents.
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to this special edition.
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SPEAKER_00: As we look back at Jesse Jackson, four years after his groundbreaking 1984 campaign, Reverend Jesse Jackson returned to the Democratic National Convention.
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SPEAKER_00: This time in Atlanta in 1988, having achieved something extraordinary.
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SPEAKER_00: His second presidential bond was stronger, or even more disruptive than official public.
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SPEAKER_00: Jackson won primaries and processes across the country.
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SPEAKER_00: Reconciliation without retreat.
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SPEAKER_00: Idealism grounded in realism.
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SPEAKER_00: This episode we honor that legacy by revisiting the full speech from the 1988 Democratic National Convention.
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SPEAKER_00: Here's the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
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SPEAKER_01: When I look out at this convention, I see the face of America, red, yellow, brown, black, and white.
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SPEAKER_01: We are all precious in God's sight, the real Rainbow Coalition.
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SPEAKER_01: All of us, all of us who are here think that we are seated.
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SPEAKER_01: We're really standing on someone's shoulders.
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SPEAKER_01: Ladies and gentlemen, Mrs.
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SPEAKER_01: Rosa Parks.
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SPEAKER_01: They have been doing pain, anxiety, threat, and fear.
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SPEAKER_01: But they have been strengthened and made secure by our faith in God, in America, and in you.
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SPEAKER_01: Your love has protected us and made us strong.
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SPEAKER_01: To my wife Jacket, the foundation of our family.
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SPEAKER_01: To our five children whom you met tonight.
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SPEAKER_01: To my mother, Mrs.
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SPEAKER_01: Helen Jackson, who's present tonight.
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SPEAKER_01: And to our grandmother, Mrs.
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SPEAKER_01: Matilda Burns.
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SPEAKER_01: My brother Chuck and his family.
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SPEAKER_01: My mother-in-law, Mrs.
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SPEAKER_01: Gertrude Brown, who just last month at age 61 graduated from Hampton Institute.
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SPEAKER_01: A marvelous achievement.
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SPEAKER_01: I offer my appreciation to Mayor Andrew Young, who has provided such gracious hospitality to all of us this week.
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SPEAKER_01: And a special salute to President Jimmy Carter.
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SPEAKER_01: President Carter.
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SPEAKER_01: For his kind words, for his unwavering commitment to peace in the world, and for the voters that came from his family, every member of his family, led by Billy and Amy, I offered my special thanks to the Carter family.
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SPEAKER_01: My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won.
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SPEAKER_01: Won in my lifetime by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.
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SPEAKER_01: 24 years ago, the late Franu Hama and Aaron Henry, who sits here tonight from Mississippi, were locked out onto the streets in Atlantic City.
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SPEAKER_01: The head of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
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SPEAKER_01: But tonight, a black and white delegation from Mississippi is headed by Ed Cole, a black man from Mississippi, 24 years later.
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SPEAKER_01: Many were lost in the struggle for the right to vote.
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SPEAKER_01: Jimmy Lee Jackson, a young student, gave his life.
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SPEAKER_01: Sorry, Goodman and Cheney, two Jews and a black, found in a common grave, butters wilt with bullets in Mississippi.
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SPEAKER_01: The four darling little girls in a church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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SPEAKER_01: They died that we might have a right to live.
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SPEAKER_01: Dr.
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SPEAKER_01: Martin Luther King Jr.
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SPEAKER_01: lies only a few miles from us tonight.
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SPEAKER_01: Tonight he must feel good as he looks down upon us.
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SPEAKER_01: We sit here together, a rainbow coalition, the sons and daughters of slave masters, and the sons and daughters of slaves sitting together around a common table to decide the direction of our party and our country.
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SPEAKER_01: His heart would be full tonight as a testament to the struggles of those who have gone before, as a legacy for those who will come after, as a tribute to the endurance, the patience, the courage of our forefathers and mothers, as an assurance that their prayers are being answered, their work has not been in vain, and hope is eternal.
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SPEAKER_01: Tomorrow night, my name will go in nomination to the presidency of the United States of America.
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SPEAKER_01: We meet tonight at the crossroads.
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SPEAKER_01: A point of decision.
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SPEAKER_01: Shall we expand, be inclusive, find unity and power, or suffer division and impotence?
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SPEAKER_01: We come to Atlanta, the cradle of the old South, the crucible of the new South.
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SPEAKER_01: Tonight there is a sense of celebration because we are moved.
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SPEAKER_01: Fundamentally moved from racial battlegrounds by law to economic common ground.
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SPEAKER_01: The moral challenge to move to higher ground.
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SPEAKER_01: Common ground.
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SPEAKER_01: Think of Jerusalem, the intersection where many trails met, a small village that became the birthplace for three great religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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SPEAKER_01: Why was this village so blessed?
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SPEAKER_01: Because it provided a crossroads where different people met, different cultures, different civilizations could meet and find a common ground.
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SPEAKER_01: When people come together, flowers always flourish.
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SPEAKER_01: The air is rich with the aroma of a new spring.
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SPEAKER_01: Take New York, the dynamic metropolis.
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SPEAKER_01: What makes New York so special is the invitation at the Statue of Liberty.
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SPEAKER_01: Give me your tire, your poor, your little masses who yearn to breathe free, not restricted to English only.
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SPEAKER_01: Many people, many cultures, many languages, with one thing in common.
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SPEAKER_01: Common ground.
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SPEAKER_01: Tonight in Atlanta, for the first time in the century, we convene in the South.
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SPEAKER_01: A state where governors once stood in schoolhouse doors, where Julian Bond was denied his seat in the state legislature because of his conscientious objection to the Vietnam War.
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SPEAKER_01: A city that through its five black universities has graduated more black students than any city in the world.
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SPEAKER_01: Atlanta, now a modern intersection of the New South.
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SPEAKER_01: Common ground.
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SPEAKER_01: That's the challenge of our party tonight.
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SPEAKER_01: Left wing, right wing.
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SPEAKER_01: Progress will not come through boundless liberalism liberalism, not static conservatism, but at the critical mass of mutual survival, not at boundless liberalism, not static conservatism, but at the critical mass of mutual survival, it takes two wings to fly.
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SPEAKER_01: What you're a hawk or a dove, you're just a bird living in the same environment, in the same world.
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SPEAKER_01: The Bible teaches that when lions and lambs lie down together, none will be afraid, and there will be peace in the valley.
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SPEAKER_01: It sounds impossible.
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SPEAKER_01: Lions eat lambs.
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SPEAKER_01: Lambs sensibly flee from lions.
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SPEAKER_01: Yet even lions and lambs find common ground.
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SPEAKER_01: Why?
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SPEAKER_01: Because neither lion nor lambs want the forest to catch on fire.
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SPEAKER_01: Neither lions nor lambs want acid rain to fall.
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SPEAKER_01: Neither lions nor lambs can survive nuclear war.
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SPEAKER_01: If lions and lambs can find common ground, surely we can as well as civilized people.
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SPEAKER_01: In nineteen sixty, John Kennedy, the late John Kennedy beat Richard Nixon by only a hundred and twelve thousand votes.
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SPEAKER_01: We won by the margin of our hope.
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SPEAKER_01: He reached out.
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SPEAKER_01: He had the courage to defy his advisors and inquire about Dr.
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SPEAKER_01: King's jailing in Auburn and Georgia.
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SPEAKER_01: We won by the margin of our hope, inspired by courageous leadership.
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SPEAKER_01: In 1964, Lemon Johnson brought both wings together.
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SPEAKER_01: The thesis, the antithesis, and the creative synthesis, and together we won.
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SPEAKER_01: In 1976, Jimmy Carter unified us again and we won.
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SPEAKER_01: When we do not come together, we never win.
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SPEAKER_01: In 1968, vision and despair in July led to our defeat in November.
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SPEAKER_01: In 1980, record in the spring and the summer led to Reagan in the fall.
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SPEAKER_01: When we divide, we cannot win.
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SPEAKER_01: We must find common ground as a basis for survival and development and change and growth.
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SPEAKER_01: Today, when we debate it, deliberated, agreed to agree, agreed to disagree, when we had the good judgment to argue a case, and then not self-destruct.
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SPEAKER_01: George Bush was just a little further away from the White House and a little closer to private life.
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SPEAKER_01: Tonight, I salute Governor Michael Dukakis.
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SPEAKER_01: He has run.
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SPEAKER_01: He has run the well-managed and a dignified campaign.
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SPEAKER_01: No matter how tired or how tried, he always resisted the temptation to stupid demagogy.
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SPEAKER_01: I've watched a good mind fast at work with steel nerves, guiding his campaign out of the crowded three-hour without appeal to the worst in us.
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SPEAKER_01: I've watched his perspective grow as his environment has expanded.
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SPEAKER_01: I've seen his toughness and tenacity close up.
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SPEAKER_01: Mike DuCalker's parents were a doctor and a teacher.
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SPEAKER_01: My parents, a maid, a beautician, and a janitor.
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SPEAKER_01: There's a great gap between Brookline, Massachusetts, and Haina Street, the Field Press and Village Housing Projects in Greenville, South Carolina.
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SPEAKER_01: He studied law.
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SPEAKER_01: I studied theology.
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SPEAKER_01: There are differences of religion, region and race, differences in experiences and perspectives.
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SPEAKER_01: But the genius of America is that out of the many, we become one.
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SPEAKER_01: Providence has enabled our paths to intersect.
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SPEAKER_01: His four parents came to America on immigrant ships.
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SPEAKER_01: My poor parents came to America on slave ships.
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SPEAKER_01: But whatever the original ships, we're in the same boat tonight.
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SPEAKER_01: If we had a false sense of independence, or they could collide and crash, we would lose our passengers, but we can seek a higher reality and a greater good.
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SPEAKER_01: Apart, we can drift on the broken pieces of ergonomics, satisfy our baser instincts, and export the fears of our people.
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SPEAKER_01: At our highest, we can call upon noble instincts and navigate this vessel to safety.
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SPEAKER_01: The greater good is the common good.
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SPEAKER_01: As Jesus said, not my will, but thine be done.
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SPEAKER_01: It was his way of saying there's a higher good beyond personal comfort opposition.
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SPEAKER_01: The good of our nation is at stake.
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SPEAKER_01: His commitment to working men and women, to the poor and the vulnerable, to the many in the world, with so many guided missiles, so much misguided leadership.
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SPEAKER_01: The stakes are exceedingly high.
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SPEAKER_01: Our choice, full participation in a democratic government, are more abandonment and neglect.
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SPEAKER_01: And so this night we choose not a false sense of independence, not our capacity to survive and endure.
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SPEAKER_01: Tonight we choose interdependency.
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SPEAKER_01: And our capacity to act and unite for the greater good.
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SPEAKER_01: Common good is found in commitment to new priorities, to expansion and inclusion.
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SPEAKER_01: A commitment to expanded participation in the Democratic Party at every level.
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SPEAKER_01: A commitment to a shared national campaign strategy and involvement at every level.
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SPEAKER_01: A commitment to new priorities that ensure that hope will be kept alive.
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SPEAKER_01: A common ground commitment to a legislative agenda for empowerment for the John Conyers bill, universal, on site, same-day registration everywhere.
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SPEAKER_01: A commitment to DC statehood and empowerment.
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SPEAKER_01: DC deserves statehood.
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SPEAKER_01: A commitment to economic set of signs.
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SPEAKER_01: A commitment to the Dellum's bill for comprehensive sanctions against South Africa.
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SPEAKER_01: A shared commitment to a common direction.
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SPEAKER_01: Common ground.
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SPEAKER_01: Easier said than done.
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SPEAKER_01: What do you find common ground at the point of challenge?
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SPEAKER_01: This campaign has shown that politics need not be marketed by politicians, packaged by posters and prominents.
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SPEAKER_01: Politics can be a moral arena where people come together to find common ground.
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SPEAKER_01: We find common ground at the plant gate that closes on workers without notice.
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SPEAKER_01: We find common ground at the farm auction where a good farmer loses his or her land to bad loans or diminishing markets.
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SPEAKER_01: Common ground at the schoolyard where teachers cannot get adequate pay and students cannot get a scholarship and can't make a loan.
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SPEAKER_01: Common ground.
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SPEAKER_01: At the hospital admitting room, where somebody tonight is dying because they cannot afford to go upstairs to a bed that's empty, waiting for someone with insurance to get sick.
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SPEAKER_01: We are a better nation than that.
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SPEAKER_01: We must do better.
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SPEAKER_01: Common ground.
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SPEAKER_01: What is leadership, if not present help, in a time of crisis?
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SPEAKER_01: And so I met you at the point of challenge.
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SPEAKER_01: In J.
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SPEAKER_01: Maine, where paperworkers were striking for fair wages.
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SPEAKER_01: In Greenfield Iowa, where family farmers struggle for a fair price.
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SPEAKER_01: In Cleveland, Ohio, where working women seek comfortable worth.
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SPEAKER_01: In McFarlane, California, where the children of Hispanic farm workers may be dying from poisoned land, dying in clusters with cancer.
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SPEAKER_01: In the AIDS hospice in Houston, Texas, where the sick support one another, twelve and rejected by their own parents and friends.
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SPEAKER_01: Common ground.
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SPEAKER_01: America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one colour, one claw.
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SPEAKER_01: When I was a child growing up in Greenville, South Carolina, and grandmama could not afford a blanket, she didn't complain, and we did not freeze.
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SPEAKER_01: Instead, she took pieces of old cloth, patches, wool, silk, gabardine, cocoa sac, only patches, barely good enough to wipe up your shoes with.
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SPEAKER_01: She sold them together into a quilt, a thing of beauty and power and culture.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, Democrats, we must build such a quilt.
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SPEAKER_01: Farmers, you seek fair prices and you're right, but you cannot stand alone.
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SPEAKER_01: Your patch is not big enough.
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SPEAKER_01: But your patch labor is not big enough.
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SPEAKER_01: Women, you seek comparable worth and pay equity, you're right, but your patch is not big enough.
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SPEAKER_01: Women, mothers who seek head start and daycare and prenatal care on the front side of life, rather than jail care and welfare on the back side of life, you're right, but your patch is not big enough.
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SPEAKER_01: Students, you seek scholarships, you're right, but your patch is not big enough.
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SPEAKER_01: Blacks and Hispanics, when we fight for civil rights, we are right, but our patch is not big enough.
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SPEAKER_01: Gays and lesbians, when you fight against discrimination and a cure for AIDS, you are right, but your patch is not big enough.
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SPEAKER_01: Conservatives and progressives, when you fight for what you believe, right wing, left wing, hold up, you are right.
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SPEAKER_01: From your point of view, but your point of view is not enough.
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SPEAKER_01: But don't despair.
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SPEAKER_01: Be as wise as my grandmama.
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SPEAKER_01: Pull the patches and the pieces together, bound by a common thread.
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SPEAKER_01: When we form a great quilt of unity and common ground, we'll have the power to bring about health care and housing and jobs and education and hope to our nation.
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SPEAKER_01: At the end of a long, dark night of reaction.
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SPEAKER_01: We stand tonight united in the commitment to a new direction.
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SPEAKER_01: For almost eight years, we've been led by those who view social good coming from private interest, who viewed public life as a means to increase private wealth.
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SPEAKER_01: They have been prepared to sacrifice the common good of the many to satisfy the private interests and the wealth of a few.
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SPEAKER_01: We believe in a government that's a tool of our democracy in service to the public, not an instrument of the aristocracy in search of private wealth.
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SPEAKER_01: We believe in government with the consent of the governed, all for and by the people.
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SPEAKER_01: We must not emerge into a new day with a new direction.
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SPEAKER_01: Regonomics based on the belief that the rich had too much money, too little money, and the poor had too much.
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SPEAKER_01: That's classic regonomics.
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SPEAKER_01: It believed that the poor had too much money, and the rich had too little money.
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SPEAKER_01: So they engaged in reverse Robin Hood, took from the poor, gave to the rich, paid for by the middle class.
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SPEAKER_01: We cannot stand four more years of regonomics in any version, in any disguise, how'd I document that case?
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SPEAKER_01: Seven years later, the richest one percent of our society pays twenty percent less in taxes, the poorest ten percent pay twenty percent more in economics.
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SPEAKER_01: Reagan gave the rich and the powerful a multi-billion dollar party.
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SPEAKER_01: Now the party is over.
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SPEAKER_01: He expects the people to pay for the damage.
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SPEAKER_01: I take this principle position convention.
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SPEAKER_01: Let us not raise taxes on the poor and the middle class, but those who had the party, the rich and the powerful, must pay for the party.
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SPEAKER_01: I just want to take common sense to high places.
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SPEAKER_01: We're spending one hundred and fifty billion dollars a year defending Europe and Japan 43 years after the war is over.
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SPEAKER_01: We have more troops in Europe tonight than we had seven years ago.
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SPEAKER_01: Yet the threat of war is ever more remote.
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SPEAKER_01: Draman and Japan are not creditor nations.
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SPEAKER_01: That means they got a surplus.
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SPEAKER_01: We are a data nation, means we are in debt.
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SPEAKER_01: Let them share more of the burden of their own defence.
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SPEAKER_01: Use some of that money to build decent housing.
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SPEAKER_01: Use some of that money to educate our children.
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SPEAKER_01: Use some of that money for long-term health care.
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SPEAKER_01: Use some of that money to wipe out these slums and put America back to work.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's make sense.
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SPEAKER_01: It does not make sense to be escorting oil tankers up and down the Persian Gulf, paying$250 for every one dollar worth of oil we bring out while oil's a cap in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.
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SPEAKER_01: I just want to make sense.
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SPEAKER_01: Must meet the moral challenge of its day.
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SPEAKER_01: What's the moral challenge of our day?
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SPEAKER_01: We have public accommodations.
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SPEAKER_01: We have the right to vote.
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SPEAKER_01: We have open housing.
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SPEAKER_01: What's the fundamental challenge of our day?
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SPEAKER_01: It is to end economic violence.
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SPEAKER_01: Plant closing without notice, economic violence.
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SPEAKER_01: Even the greed do not top it long from greed.
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SPEAKER_01: Economic violence.
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SPEAKER_01: Most poor people are not lazy.
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SPEAKER_01: They're mostly white and female and young.
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SPEAKER_01: But whether white, black, or brown, or hungry babies barely turned inside out is the same color.
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SPEAKER_01: Call it pain.
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SPEAKER_01: Call it hurt.
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SPEAKER_01: Call it agony.
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SPEAKER_01: Most poor people are not on welfare.
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SPEAKER_01: Some of them are illiterate and can't read the won't add sections.
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SPEAKER_01: When they can, they can't find a job that matches their dress.
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SPEAKER_01: They work hard every day.
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SPEAKER_01: I know.
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SPEAKER_01: I live amongst them.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm one of them.
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SPEAKER_01: I know they work.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm a witness.
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SPEAKER_01: They catch the early bus.
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SPEAKER_01: They work every day.
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SPEAKER_01: They raise other people's children.
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SPEAKER_01: They work every day.
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SPEAKER_01: They clean the streets.
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SPEAKER_01: They work every day.
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SPEAKER_01: They drive dangerous cabs.
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SPEAKER_01: They work every day.
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SPEAKER_01: They change the beds you slept in in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract.
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SPEAKER_01: They work every day.
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SPEAKER_01: No, no, they are not lazy.
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SPEAKER_01: Someone must defend them because it's right and they cannot speak for themselves.
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SPEAKER_01: They work in hospitals.
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SPEAKER_01: I know they do.
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SPEAKER_01: They wipe the bodies of those who are sick with fever and pain.
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SPEAKER_01: They empty their bedpans.
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SPEAKER_01: They couldn't have their commode.
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SPEAKER_01: No job is beneath them.
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SPEAKER_01: And yet, when they get sick, they cannot lie in the bed they made up every day.
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SPEAKER_01: America, that is not right.
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SPEAKER_01: We are a better nation than that.
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SPEAKER_01: We are a better nation than that.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't just say no.
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SPEAKER_01: It's deeper than that.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't just get a palm reader on astrologer.
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SPEAKER_01: It's more profound than that.
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SPEAKER_01: We are spending a hundred and fifty billion dollars on drugs a year.
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SPEAKER_01: We've gone from ignoring it to focusing on the children.
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SPEAKER_01: Children cannot buy$150 billion worth of drugs a year.
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SPEAKER_01: If you high-profile athletes, athletes are not laundering$150 billion a year, bankers are.
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SPEAKER_01: And to not sell them, you're right.
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SPEAKER_01: To not use these guns, you're right.
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SPEAKER_01: By the way, the promise of Scepter, they displaced Cedar, they did not replace Cedar.
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SPEAKER_01: We have neither jobs, nor houses, nor services, nor training, nor way out.
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SPEAKER_01: Some of us take drugs as anesthesia, plow pain.
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SPEAKER_01: Some take drugs as a way of pleasure, through short-term pleasure and long-term pain.
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SPEAKER_01: Some sell drugs to make money.
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SPEAKER_01: At the port.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't you believe the federal government can stop it if they want to?
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SPEAKER_01: They say we don't have Saturday night specials anymore.
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SPEAKER_01: They say we buy AK-47s and Oozers, the latest NATO weapons.
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SPEAKER_01: We buy them across the counter on Long Beach Bully Barn.
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SPEAKER_01: You cannot fight a war on drugs unless and until you're going to challenge the bankers and the gun tellers and those who grow them.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't just focus on the children.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's stop drugs at the level of supply and demand.
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SPEAKER_01: We must end the scourge on the American culture.
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SPEAKER_01: Leadership.
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SPEAKER_01: What difference will we make?
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SPEAKER_01: Leadership cannot just go along to get along.
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SPEAKER_01: We must do more than change presidents.
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SPEAKER_01: We must change direction.
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SPEAKER_01: Leadership must face the moral challenge of our day.
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SPEAKER_01: The nuclear war build up is irrational.
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SPEAKER_01: Strong leadership cannot desire to look tough and let that stand in the way of the pursuit of peace.
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SPEAKER_01: Leadership must reverse the arms race.
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SPEAKER_01: At least we should pledge no fresh use.
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SPEAKER_01: Why?
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SPEAKER_01: Because fresh use begets threshold retaliation and that's mutual annihilation.
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SPEAKER_01: That's not a rational way out.
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SPEAKER_01: No use at all.
41:48
SPEAKER_01: Let's think it out and not fight it out because it's an unwinnable fight.
41:54
SPEAKER_01: Why hold a card that you can never drop?
41:57
SPEAKER_01: Let's give peace a chance.
41:59
SPEAKER_01: Leadership.
42:01
SPEAKER_01: We now have this marvelous opportunity to have a breakthrough with the Soviets.
42:05
SPEAKER_01: Last year, 200,000 Americans visited the Soviet Union.
42:11
SPEAKER_01: There's a chance for joint ventures in the space.
42:14
SPEAKER_01: Not Star Wars and the war arms escalation, but a space defense initiative.
42:21
SPEAKER_01: Let's build in the space together and demilitarize the heavens.
42:26
SPEAKER_01: There's a way out.
42:31
SPEAKER_01: America, let us expand.
42:34
SPEAKER_01: When Mr.
42:35
SPEAKER_01: Reagan and Mr.
42:36
SPEAKER_01: Gorbachev met, it was a big meeting.
42:40
SPEAKER_01: They represented together one-eighth of the human race.
42:44
SPEAKER_01: Seven-eighths of the human race was locked out of that room.
42:48
SPEAKER_01: Most people in the world tonight, half are Asian, one half of them are Chinese.
42:57
SPEAKER_01: There's Europe, 400 million Latin Americans next door to us, the Caribbean, Africa, a half billion people.
43:05
SPEAKER_01: Most people in the world today are yellow, a brown, a black, non-Christian, poor, female, young, and don't speak English in the real world.
43:15
SPEAKER_01: This generation must offer leadership to the real world.
43:20
SPEAKER_01: We're losing ground in Latin America, Middle East, South Africa because we're not focusing on the real world.
43:26
SPEAKER_01: That real world.
43:27
SPEAKER_01: We must use basic principles.
43:30
SPEAKER_01: Support international law.
43:33
SPEAKER_01: We stand the most to gain from it.
43:36
SPEAKER_01: Support human rights.
43:38
SPEAKER_01: We believe in that.
43:40
SPEAKER_01: Support self-determination.
43:42
SPEAKER_01: We're built on that.
43:44
SPEAKER_01: Support economic development.
43:46
SPEAKER_01: You know it's right.
43:48
SPEAKER_01: Be consistent and gain our moral authority in the world.
43:52
SPEAKER_01: I challenge you tonight, my friends.
43:54
SPEAKER_01: Let's be bigger and better as a nation and as a party.
44:18
SPEAKER_01: Freedom in South Africa.
44:21
SPEAKER_01: We've already agreed as Democrats to collapse South Africa.
44:25
SPEAKER_01: To be a terrorist state, but don't just stop there.
44:28
SPEAKER_01: Get South Africa out of Angola.
44:31
SPEAKER_01: Free Namibia.
44:32
SPEAKER_01: Support the frontline states.
44:34
SPEAKER_01: We must have a new humane human rights and system policy in Africa.
44:43
SPEAKER_01: I'm often asked, Jesse, why do you take on these tough issues?
44:51
SPEAKER_01: They're not very political.
44:54
SPEAKER_01: We can't win that way.
44:57
SPEAKER_01: If an issue is morally right, it will eventually be political.
45:03
SPEAKER_01: It may be political and never be right.
45:09
SPEAKER_01: Trend Lou Hama didn't have the most votes in Atlantic City.
45:13
SPEAKER_01: Well, her principles have outlasted every delegate who voted to lock her out.
45:18
SPEAKER_01: Rosa Parks did not have the most votes.
45:21
SPEAKER_01: But she was morally right.
45:24
SPEAKER_01: Dr.
45:24
SPEAKER_01: King didn't have the most votes about the Vietnam War, but he was morally right.
45:28
SPEAKER_01: If we're principles first, our politics will fall in place.
45:33
SPEAKER_01: Jesse, why don't you take these big bold initiatives?
45:38
SPEAKER_01: A poem by an unknown author went something like this.
45:41
SPEAKER_01: We mastered the air, we've conquered the sea, annihilated distance and prolonged life.
45:48
SPEAKER_01: But we're not wise enough to live on this earth without war and without hate.
45:53
SPEAKER_01: As for Jesse Jackson, I'm tired of sailing my little boat far inside the harbor bar.
46:02
SPEAKER_01: I want to go out where the big ships float, out on the deep where the great ones are.
46:08
SPEAKER_01: And should my frail craft prove too slight, the wave that sweep those billers o'er, I'd rather go down in the stirring fight than drowse to death at the sheltered shore.
46:22
SPEAKER_01: We got to go out, my friends, where the big boats are.
46:34
SPEAKER_01: And then for our children, young America, hold your head high now.
46:43
SPEAKER_01: We can win.
46:45
SPEAKER_01: We must not lose you the drugs and violence, premature pregnancy, suicide, cynicism, pessimism, and despair.
46:54
SPEAKER_01: We can win.
46:56
SPEAKER_01: Wherever you are tonight, I challenge you to hope and the dream.
47:01
SPEAKER_01: Don't submerge your dreams.
47:04
SPEAKER_01: Exercise above all else.
47:08
SPEAKER_01: Even on drugs, dream of the day, you're drug free.
47:13
SPEAKER_01: Even in the gutter, dream of the day that you'll be all up on your feet again.
47:19
SPEAKER_01: You must never stop dreaming.
47:23
SPEAKER_01: Face reality, yes, but don't stop with the way things are.
47:27
SPEAKER_01: Dream of things as they ought to be.
47:29
SPEAKER_01: Dream.
47:30
SPEAKER_01: Face pain.
47:32
SPEAKER_01: But love, hope, faith, and dreams will help you rise above the pain.
47:37
SPEAKER_01: Use hope and imagination as weapons of survival and progress, but you keep on dreaming, young America.
47:43
SPEAKER_01: Dream of peace.
47:46
SPEAKER_01: Peace is rational and reasonable.
47:49
SPEAKER_01: War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.
47:54
SPEAKER_01: Dream of teachers who teach for life and not for living.
47:59
SPEAKER_01: Dream of doctors who are concerned more about public health and private wealth.
48:04
SPEAKER_01: Dream of lawyers more concerned about justice and a judgeship.
48:09
SPEAKER_01: Dream of preachers who are concerned more about prophecy than profiteering.
48:13
SPEAKER_01: Dream on the high road of sound values.
48:17
SPEAKER_01: And then America, as we go forth in September, October, November, and then beyond.
48:26
SPEAKER_01: America must never surrender to a high moral challenge.
48:31
SPEAKER_01: Do not surrender to drugs.
48:34
SPEAKER_01: The best drug policy is a no-fresh use.
48:37
SPEAKER_01: Don't surrender with needles and cynicism.
48:42
SPEAKER_01: Let's have no fresh use on the one hand, our clinics on the other.
48:47
SPEAKER_01: Never surrender, young America.
48:49
SPEAKER_01: Go forward.
48:51
SPEAKER_01: America must never surrender to malnutrition.
48:54
SPEAKER_01: We can feed the hungry and clothe the naked.
48:58
SPEAKER_01: We must never surrender.
49:00
SPEAKER_01: We must go forward.
49:02
SPEAKER_01: We must never surrender to illiteracy.
49:05
SPEAKER_01: Invest in our children, never surrender and go forward.
49:10
SPEAKER_01: We must never surrender to inequality.
49:13
SPEAKER_01: Women cannot compromise ERAA or comparable word.
49:18
SPEAKER_01: Women are making 60 cents on the dollar to what a man makes.
49:22
SPEAKER_01: Women cannot buy meat cheaper.
49:25
SPEAKER_01: Women cannot buy bread cheaper.
49:27
SPEAKER_01: Women cannot buy milk cheaper.
49:29
SPEAKER_01: Women deserve to get paid for the work that you do.
49:33
SPEAKER_01: It's money and it's bad.
49:42
SPEAKER_01: Don't surrender, my friends.
49:47
SPEAKER_01: Those who have AIDS tonight, you deserve our compassion.
49:52
SPEAKER_01: Even with AIDS, you must not surrender in your wheelchairs.
49:55
SPEAKER_01: I see you sitting here tonight in those wheelchairs.
49:58
SPEAKER_01: I've stayed with you, I've reached out to you across our nation, and don't you give up.
50:03
SPEAKER_01: I know it's tough sometimes.
50:05
SPEAKER_01: People look down on you.
50:08
SPEAKER_01: It took you a little more effort to get here tonight.
50:11
SPEAKER_01: And no one should look down on you, but sometimes mean people do.
50:16
SPEAKER_01: The only justification we have for looking down on someone is that we're gonna stop and pick them up.
50:22
SPEAKER_01: But even in your wheelchairs, don't you give up?
50:25
SPEAKER_01: We cannot forget 50 years ago when our backs were against the wall, Roosevelt was in a wheelchair.
50:32
SPEAKER_01: I would rather have Roosevelt in a wheelchair with Reagan and Bush on the horse.
50:39
SPEAKER_01: Don't you surrender and don't you give up?
50:42
SPEAKER_01: Don't surrender and don't give up.
50:53
SPEAKER_01: Why I cannot challenge you this way, Jesse Jackson.
50:58
SPEAKER_01: You don't understand my situation.
51:01
SPEAKER_01: You'd be on television.
51:05
SPEAKER_01: You don't understand.
51:08
SPEAKER_01: I see with you with the big people.
51:11
SPEAKER_01: You don't you don't understand my situation?
51:15
SPEAKER_01: I understand.
51:18
SPEAKER_01: You see me on TV, but you don't know the meeting makes me me.
51:23
SPEAKER_01: They wonder why the Jesse run?
51:27
SPEAKER_01: Because they see me running for the White House?
51:30
SPEAKER_01: They don't see the house I'm running from.
51:33
SPEAKER_01: I have a story.
51:41
SPEAKER_01: I wasn't always on television.
51:46
SPEAKER_01: Rogers were not always outside my door.
51:49
SPEAKER_01: When I was born late one afternoon, October 8th, in Greenville, South Carolina.
51:54
SPEAKER_01: No writers asked my mother her name.
51:58
SPEAKER_01: Nobody chose to write down our address.
52:01
SPEAKER_01: A mama was not supposed to make it.
52:04
SPEAKER_01: And I was not supposed to make it.
52:06
SPEAKER_01: You see, I was born a teenage mother.
52:11
SPEAKER_01: Who was born a teenage mother?
52:15
SPEAKER_01: I understand.
52:18
SPEAKER_01: I know abandonment and people being mean to you and saying you're nothing and nobody and can never be anything.
52:29
SPEAKER_01: I understand.
52:32
SPEAKER_01: Jesse Jackson is my third name.
52:37
SPEAKER_01: I'm adopted.
52:39
SPEAKER_01: When I had no name, my grandmother gave me her name.
52:43
SPEAKER_01: My name was Jesse Burns till I was 12.
52:46
SPEAKER_01: So I wouldn't have a blank space.
52:48
SPEAKER_01: She gave me a name to hold me over.
52:53
SPEAKER_01: I understand when nobody knows your name.
52:57
SPEAKER_01: I understand when you have no name.
53:01
SPEAKER_01: I understand.
53:03
SPEAKER_01: I wasn't born in the hospital.
53:07
SPEAKER_01: Mama didn't have insurance.
53:11
SPEAKER_01: I was born in the bed.
53:14
SPEAKER_01: At house.
53:15
SPEAKER_01: I really do understand.
53:18
SPEAKER_01: Born in a three-room house.
53:21
SPEAKER_01: Bathroom in the backyard.
53:24
SPEAKER_01: Slop job out of the bed.
53:27
SPEAKER_01: No hot and cold running water.
53:31
SPEAKER_01: I understand.
53:33
SPEAKER_01: Wallpaper used for decoration?
53:36
SPEAKER_01: No.
53:37
SPEAKER_01: But windbreaker.
53:40
SPEAKER_01: I understand.
53:42
SPEAKER_01: I'm a working person's person.
53:45
SPEAKER_01: That's why I understand you, whether you're a black or white, I understand work.
53:49
SPEAKER_01: I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.
53:52
SPEAKER_01: I had a shovel program for my hand.
53:56
SPEAKER_01: My mother, a working woman.
53:59
SPEAKER_01: So many days she went to work early.
54:04
SPEAKER_01: She knew better.
54:06
SPEAKER_01: But she rolled runs in her stockings so that my brother and I could have matching socks and not be laughed at at school.
54:15
SPEAKER_01: I understand.
54:17
SPEAKER_01: At three o'clock on Thanksgiving Day, we couldn't eat turkey.
54:21
SPEAKER_01: Because mama was preparing somebody else's turkey at three o'clock.
54:25
SPEAKER_01: We had to play football to entertain ourselves.
54:28
SPEAKER_01: And then around six o'clock, she would get off the after this to bus, and we would bring up the leftovers and eat our turkey.
54:33
SPEAKER_01: Leftovers, the caucus, the cranberries, around eight o'clock at night.
54:38
SPEAKER_01: I really do understand.
54:41
SPEAKER_01: Every one of these funny labels they put on you, those of you who are watching this broadcast at night in the projects, on the corners, I understand.
54:51
SPEAKER_01: Call you outcast, low down, you can't make it.
54:56
SPEAKER_01: You're nothing, you're from nobody.
54:58
SPEAKER_01: Subclass, underclass.
55:01
SPEAKER_01: When you see Jesse Jackson, when my name goes in nomination, your name goes in nomination.
55:08
SPEAKER_01: I was born in the slum, but the slum was not born in me.
55:12
SPEAKER_01: And it wasn't born in you, and you can make it.
55:16
SPEAKER_01: Wherever you are tonight, you can make it.
55:20
SPEAKER_01: Hold your head high.
55:23
SPEAKER_01: Stick your chest out.
55:25
SPEAKER_01: You can make it.
55:31
SPEAKER_01: Don't you surrender?
55:33
SPEAKER_01: Suffering breeze.
55:34
SPEAKER_01: Character.
55:35
SPEAKER_01: Character breaches faith.
55:37
SPEAKER_01: In the end, faith will not disport.
55:40
SPEAKER_01: You must not surrender.
55:42
SPEAKER_01: You may or may not get there, but just know that you are qualified when you hold on and hold out.
55:50
SPEAKER_01: We must never surrender.
55:52
SPEAKER_01: America will get better and better.
55:55
SPEAKER_01: Keep hope alive.
55:57
SPEAKER_01: Keep hope alive.
55:59
SPEAKER_01: Keep hope alive.
56:01
SPEAKER_01: Ultimately and beyond.
56:08
SPEAKER_01: I love you very much.
56:45
SPEAKER_02: I may be poor.
56:47
SPEAKER_02: But I am somebody.
56:51
SPEAKER_02: I may be on welfare.
56:54
SPEAKER_02: But I am somebody.
56:57
SPEAKER_02: I may be in jail.
57:00
SPEAKER_02: But I am somebody.
57:03
SPEAKER_02: I may be on educator.
57:06
SPEAKER_02: But I am somebody.
57:10
SPEAKER_02: I am not being protecting.