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nity and mon ground, we39。ve been led by those who view social gooding from private interest, who view public life as a means to increase private have been prepared to sacrifice the mon good of the many to satisfy the private interests and the wealth of a believe in a government that39。s classic believe that the poor had too much money and the rich had too little money,so they engaged in reverse Robin Hoodtook from the poor, gave to the rich, paid for by the middle cannot stand four more years of Reaganomics in any version, in any do I document that case? Seven years later, the richest 1 percent of our society pays 20 percent less in poorest 10 percent pay 20 percent more: gave the rich and the powerful a multibilliondollar the party is expects the people to pay for the take this principal position, convention, let us not raise taxes on the poor and the middleclass, but those who had the party, the rich and the powerful, must pay for the just want to take mon sense to high 39。that means they39。if we can bail out Continental Bank and Chryslerand , make [sic] 8,000 dollars an hourwe can bail out the family just want to make mon does not make sense to close down six hundred and fifty thousand family farms in this country while importing food from abroad subsidized by the 39。s the moral challenge of our day? We have public have the right to have open 39。s belly turned inside out is the same colorcolor it pain。color it poor people are not on of them are illiterate and can39。t find a job that matches the work hard live amongst 39。m a catch the early work every raise other people39。t get a union work , no, they are not lazy!Someone must defend them because it39。t “just say no.” It39。t just get a palm reader or an 39。ve gone from ignoring it to focusing on the cannot buy a hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of drugs a year。re turning on each other and they39。re right。re right。re right.”(And by the way, the promise of CETA [Comprehensive Employment and Training Act]。s wrong, we know, but you need to know that we can go and buy the drugs by the boxes at the we can buy the drugs at the port, don39。t have Saturday night specials anymore.” They say, “We buy AK4739。s, the latest make of buy them across the along these boulevards.” You cannot fight a war on drugs unless and until you39。t just focus on the children。s stop drugs at the level of supply and must end the scourge on the American difference will we make? just go along to get must do more than change must change must face the moral challenge of our nuclear war buildup is leadership cannot desire to look tough and let that stand in the way of the pursuit of must reverse the arms least we should pledge no first ? Because first use begets first that39。s not a rational way use at 39。s an unwinnable hold a card that you can never drop? Let39。s a chance for joint ventures into spacenot Star Wars and war arms escalation but a space defense 39。s a way , let us and met there was a big represented together oneeighth of the human of the human racewas locked out of that people in the world tonighthalf are Asian, onehalf of them are are 22 nations in the Middle 39。40 million Latin Americans next door to us。Africaa halfbillion people in the world today are Yellow or Brown or Black, nonChristian, poor, female, young and don39。re losing ground in Latin America, Middle East, South Africa because we39。s the real must use basic principlessupport international stand the most to gain from human rightswe believe in selfdeterminationwe39。s consistent and gain our moral authority in the challenge you tonight, my friends, let39。ve already agreed as Democrats to declare South Africa to be a terrorist don39。free Namibia。m often asked, “Jesse, why do you take on these tough issues? They39。t win that way.” If an issue is morally right, it will eventually be may be political and never be Lou Hamer didn39。t have the most votes about the Vietnam War, but he was morally we are principled first, our politics will fall in place.“Jesse, why do you take these big bold initiatives?” A poem by an unknown author went something like this: “We mastered theair, we conquered the sea, annihilated distance and prolonged life, but we39。m tired of sailing my little boat, far inside the harbor want to go out where the big ships float, out on the deep where the great ones should my frail craft prove too slight for waves that sweep those billows o39。d rather go down in the stirring fight than drowse to death at the sheltered shore.” We39。t submerge your above all else, even on drugs, dream of the day you are drug in the gutter, dream of the day that you will be up on your feet must never stop reality, yes, but don39。t surrender with needles and 39。and go must never surrender to cannot promise ERA or parable are making 60 cents on the dollar to what a man cannot buy meat cannot buy bread cannot buy milk deserve to get paid for the work that you 39。s 39。ve stayed with 39。t you give know it39。re going to stop and pick them even in your wheelchairs, don39。t you surrender and don39。t surrender and don39。t understand my be on don39。t understand my situation.” I see me on TV, but you don39。t see the house I39。t always on were not always outside my I was born late one afternoon, October 8th, in Greenville, South Carolina, no writers asked my mother her chose to write down our mama was not supposed to make it, and I was not supposed to make see, I was born of a teenage mother, who was born of a teenage know abandonment, and people being mean to you, and saying you39。m I had no name, my grandmother gave me her name was Jesse Burns 39。t have a blank space, she gave me a name to hold me understand when nobody knows your understand when you have no wasn39。t have was born in the bed at [the] really do in a threeroom house, bathroom in the backyard, slop jar by the bed, no hot and cold running used for