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[00:00:00] Heat. [00:00:11] Heat. [00:00:23] Heat. [00:00:37] Heat. [00:00:45] Heat [00:00:59] up [00:01:11] here. [00:01:21] Heat. [00:01:24] Heat. [00:01:46] Heat. [00:01:54] Heat. [00:02:11] Heat. Heat. [00:02:36] Thank you. [00:02:45] Thank you. [00:02:51] Thank you. Tonight [00:03:13] we pause and [00:03:15] give praise and honor to God [00:03:19] for being good enough to allow us to be [00:03:23] at this place at this time. [00:03:26] When I look out at this convention, [00:03:28] I see the face of America. [00:03:32] Red, yellow, brown, black, and white. [00:03:34] We're all precious in God's sight. The [00:03:38] real rainbow coalition. [00:03:41] All of us, [00:03:46] all of us who are here [00:03:49] think that we are seated, [00:03:52] but we're really standing on someone's [00:03:54] shoulders. Ladies and gentlemen, Mrs. [00:03:56] Rosa Parks, [00:04:03] the mother of the civil rights movement. [00:04:19] Heat [00:04:22] up [00:04:26] here. [00:04:40] I want to express [00:04:43] my deep love and appreciation for the [00:04:45] support my family has given me over [00:04:48] these past months. [00:04:51] They have endured pain, anxiety, threat, [00:04:55] and fear. [00:04:57] But they have been strengthened and made [00:04:58] secure by our faith in God in America [00:05:02] and in you. [00:05:04] Your love has protected us and made us [00:05:06] strong. [00:05:08] To my wife, Jacket, the foundation of [00:05:10] our family. To our five children whom [00:05:13] you met tonight. [00:05:15] To my mother, Mrs. Helen Jackson, who's [00:05:17] present tonight. And to our grandmother, [00:05:20] Mrs. Matilda Burns. To my brother, Chuck [00:05:23] and his family. To my mother-in-law, [00:05:26] Mrs. girl TR Brown who just last month [00:05:28] at age 61 [00:05:30] graduated from Hampton Institute. A [00:05:32] marvelous achievement. [00:05:39] I offer my appreciation to Mayor Andrew [00:05:42] Young who has provided such gracious [00:05:44] hospitality to all of us this week and a [00:05:48] special salute [00:05:51] to President Jimmy Carter. President [00:05:54] Carter. [00:06:18] President Carter restored honor to the [00:06:20] White House after Watergate. [00:06:22] He gave many of us a special opportunity [00:06:24] to grow. For his kind words, for his [00:06:28] unwavering commitment to peace in the [00:06:31] world, and for the voters that came from [00:06:33] his family, every member of his family [00:06:36] led by Billy and Amy. I offer my special [00:06:38] thanks to the Carter family. [00:06:46] My right and my privilege to stand here [00:06:49] before you has been won. Worn in my [00:06:53] lifetime by the blood and the sweat of [00:06:56] the innocent. [00:06:58] 24 years ago, the late Fanny Liu Hmer [00:07:02] and Aaron Henry, who sits here tonight [00:07:04] from Mississippi, [00:07:06] were locked out onto the streets in [00:07:09] Atlantic City, the head of the [00:07:11] Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. [00:07:14] But tonight, a black and white [00:07:17] delegation from Mississippi is headed by [00:07:20] Ed Cole, a black man from Mississippi. [00:07:23] 24 years later, [00:07:32] Many were lost in the struggle for the [00:07:34] right to vote. Jim Jackson, a young [00:07:38] student, gave his life. [00:07:41] Very Louise Soul, a white mother from [00:07:44] Detroit [00:07:45] called lover and brains blown out [00:07:49] at point blank range. [00:07:51] Surrendered Goodman and Cheney. Two Jews [00:07:54] and a black found in a common grave [00:07:58] butter is filled with bullets in [00:07:59] Mississippi. The four darling little [00:08:02] girls in a church in Birmingham, [00:08:04] Alabama. They died that we might have a [00:08:07] right to live. Dr. Martin Luther King [00:08:10] Jr. lies only a few miles from us [00:08:14] tonight. Tonight he must feel good as he [00:08:18] looks down upon us. We sit here [00:08:20] together, a rainbow or coalition, the [00:08:25] sons and daughters of slave masters and [00:08:28] the sons and daughters of slaves sitting [00:08:30] together around the common table to [00:08:33] decide the direction of our party and [00:08:36] our country. His heart would be full [00:08:39] tonight as a testament to the struggles [00:08:43] of those who have gone before, as a [00:08:46] legacy for those who will come after. as [00:08:50] a tribute to the endurance, [00:08:52] the patience, the courage of our [00:08:54] forefathers and mothers. As an assurance [00:08:58] that their prayers are being answered, [00:09:01] that their work has not been in vain and [00:09:04] the hope is eternal. Tomorrow night, my [00:09:07] name will go in nomination to the [00:09:09] presidency of the United States of [00:09:12] America. [00:09:22] We meet tonight at the crossroads. [00:09:26] A point of decision. [00:09:28] Shall we expand, be inclusive, find [00:09:32] unity and power [00:09:34] or suffer division and impotence? [00:09:37] We come to Atlanta, the cradle of the [00:09:40] old south, the crucible of the new [00:09:43] south. Tonight there is a sense of [00:09:46] celebration because we are moved [00:09:49] fundamentally moved from racial [00:09:51] battlegrounds by law to economic common [00:09:55] ground. The marvel challenge to move to [00:09:59] higher ground. Common ground. Think of [00:10:03] Jerusalem. The intersection where many [00:10:05] trails met. A small village that became [00:10:09] the birthplace for three great [00:10:11] religions. [00:10:12] Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Why [00:10:16] was this village so blessed? Because it [00:10:19] provided a crossroads where different [00:10:21] people met. Different cultures, [00:10:25] different civilizations could meet and [00:10:27] find common ground. When people come [00:10:31] together, flowers always flourish. The [00:10:35] air is rich with the aroma of a new [00:10:38] spring. Take New York. The dynamic [00:10:42] metropolis. [00:10:44] What makes New York so special? It's the [00:10:47] invitation at the Statue of Liberty. [00:10:50] Give me your tired, your poor. You [00:10:53] huddle masters who yearn to breathe [00:10:55] free. Not restricted to English only. [00:11:00] Many people, many cultures, many [00:11:03] languages [00:11:05] with one thing in common, the yearn to [00:11:08] breathe free common ground. Tonight in [00:11:12] Atlanta, for the first time in this [00:11:15] century, we convene in the South, a [00:11:19] state where governors once stood in [00:11:21] schoolhouse doors, where Julian Bond was [00:11:24] denied his seat in the state legislature [00:11:26] because of his conscientious objection [00:11:28] to the Vietnam War, a city that through [00:11:32] its five black universities has [00:11:34] graduated more black students than any [00:11:37] city in the world. Atlanta [00:11:41] now a modern intersection of the new [00:11:44] south. Common ground. That's the [00:11:47] challenge of our party tonight. [00:11:49] Leftwing, [00:11:51] right-wing, [00:11:53] progress will not come through boundless [00:11:56] liber liberalism, narcatic conservatism. [00:12:00] But at the critical mass of mutual [00:12:02] survival, [00:12:04] not at boundless liberalism, not static [00:12:08] conservatism, but at the critical mass [00:12:10] of mutual survival, it takes two wings [00:12:13] to fly. Whether you're a hawk or a dove, [00:12:17] you're just a bird living in the same [00:12:21] environment, [00:12:22] in the same world. [00:12:25] The Bible teaches that when lions [00:12:28] and lambs lie down together, [00:12:31] none will be afraid [00:12:33] and there will be peace in the valley. [00:12:36] It sounds impossible. [00:12:39] Lions eat lambs. [00:12:42] Lambs sensibly flee from lions. [00:12:45] Can even lions and lambs find common [00:12:48] ground. Why? Because neither lion nor [00:12:51] lambs want the forest to catch on fire. [00:12:55] NEITHER LIONS NOR lambs want acid rain [00:12:58] to fall. [00:12:59] >> NEITHER LIONS NOR LAMBS CAN survive [00:13:02] nuclear war. If lions and lambs can find [00:13:05] common ground, surely we can as well as [00:13:09] civilized people. [00:13:27] The only time that we win [00:13:32] is when we come together. In 1960, [00:13:36] John Kennedy, [00:13:38] the late John Kennedy, beat Richard [00:13:40] Nixon by only 112,000 votes. [00:13:44] Less than one vote for precinct. [00:13:48] We won by the margin of our hope. He [00:13:51] brought us together. He reached out. He [00:13:54] had the courage to defy his advisors and [00:13:57] inquire about Dr. King's jailing in [00:14:00] Albany and Georgia. We won by the margin [00:14:03] of our hope inspired by courageous [00:14:07] leadership. In 1964, [00:14:10] Lynon Johnson brought both wings [00:14:12] together, [00:14:14] the thesis, the antithesis, and the [00:14:16] creative synthesis, and together we won. [00:14:19] In 1976, [00:14:22] Jimmy Carter unified us again and we [00:14:24] won. When we do not come together, we [00:14:28] never win. In 1968, [00:14:31] division and despair in July led to our [00:14:35] defeat in November. In 1980, record in [00:14:39] the spring and the summer led to Reagan [00:14:42] in the fall. When we divide, WE CANNOT [00:14:46] WIN. WE MUST FIND COMMON ground as a [00:14:50] basis for survival and development and [00:14:53] change and growth. [00:15:08] Today when we debated, [00:15:11] differed, deliberated, [00:15:15] agreed to agree, agreed to disagree, [00:15:19] when we had THE GOOD JUDGMENT TO ARGUE A [00:15:21] case and then not self-destruct, [00:15:25] George Bush was just a little further [00:15:28] away from the White House and a little [00:15:30] closer to private life. [00:15:35] Tonight [00:15:46] I salute Governor Michael Dukakus. He [00:15:50] has run. [00:16:00] He has run a well-managed and a [00:16:02] dignified campaign. [00:16:04] No matter how tired or how tried, he [00:16:07] always resisted the temptation to stoop [00:16:10] the demagoggery. [00:16:12] I've watched a good mind fast at work [00:16:16] with steel nerves, guiding his campaign [00:16:19] out of the crowded field without appeal [00:16:21] to the worst in us. I've watched his [00:16:24] perspective grow as his environment has [00:16:26] expanded. [00:16:28] I've seen his toughness and tenacity [00:16:30] close up and know his commitment to [00:16:33] public service. Mike Dukakus parents [00:16:36] were a doctor and a teacher. My parents [00:16:40] a maid, a butician and a janitor. [00:16:43] There's a great gap between Brookline, [00:16:46] Massachusetts and Haney Street, the [00:16:49] field press village housing projects in [00:16:52] Greenville, South Carolina. [00:16:54] He studied law. [00:16:56] I studied theology. [00:16:58] There are differences of religion, [00:17:01] region and race, [00:17:03] differences in experiences and [00:17:05] perspectives. But the genius of America [00:17:07] is that out of the many, we become one. [00:17:11] Providence has enabled our paths to [00:17:14] intersect. His forearms came to America [00:17:18] on immigrant ships. [00:17:20] My fore parents came to America on slave [00:17:23] ships with whatever the original ships [00:17:27] were. We're in the same boat tonight. [00:18:00] Our ships [00:18:02] could pass in the night if we had a [00:18:06] false sense of independence [00:18:08] or they could collide and crash. [00:18:12] We would lose our passengers. [00:18:14] We can seek a higher reality and a [00:18:17] greater good. Apart we can drift on the [00:18:20] broken pieces of economics, [00:18:23] satisfy [00:18:24] our base of instincts and exploit the [00:18:27] fears of our people. At our highest, we [00:18:31] can call upon noble instincts and [00:18:33] navigate this vessel to safety. The [00:18:36] greater good is the common good. As [00:18:40] Jesus said, "Not my will but thine be [00:18:44] done." It was his way of saying there's [00:18:47] a higher good beyond personal comfort or [00:18:50] position. The good of our nation is at [00:18:55] stake. [00:18:56] its commitment to working men and women, [00:19:00] to the poor and the vulnerable, to the [00:19:02] many in the world. With so many guided [00:19:06] missiles [00:19:07] and so much misguided leadership, the [00:19:10] stakes are exceedingly high. Our choice, [00:19:16] full participation in the democratic [00:19:18] government are more abandonment and [00:19:21] neglect. And so this night [00:19:25] WE CHOOSE NOT A FALSE SENSE OF [00:19:27] INDEPENDENCE, [00:19:28] not our capacity to survive and endure. [00:19:32] Tonight we choose interdependency [00:19:34] and our capacity to act and unite for [00:19:37] the greater good. Common good is found [00:19:41] in commitment to new priorities, [00:19:44] to expansion and inclusion. [00:19:46] A commitment to expanded participation [00:19:49] in the Democratic Party at every level. [00:19:52] A COMMITMENT TO A SHARED NATIONAL [00:19:55] campaign strategy and involvement at [00:19:58] every level. A commitment to new [00:20:01] priorities that ensure that hope will be [00:20:04] kept alive. [00:20:06] A common ground commitment to a [00:20:08] legislative agenda for empowerment. [00:20:12] for the John Conor's bill. Universal [00:20:15] on-site [00:20:17] same day registration everywhere, [00:20:30] a commitment to DC statethood and [00:20:32] empowerment. BC deserves statethood, [00:20:40] a commitment to economic set aids, [00:20:44] a commitment to the Delums bill for a [00:20:46] comprehensive sanctions against South [00:20:48] Africa, a shared commitment to a common [00:20:52] direction. [00:20:57] Common ground. [00:20:59] Easier said than done. Where do you find [00:21:02] common ground at the point of challenge? [00:21:06] This campaign has shown that politics [00:21:08] need not be marketed by politicians, [00:21:11] packaged by pollsters and pundits. [00:21:15] Politics [00:21:16] can be a moral arena where people come [00:21:19] together to find common ground. [00:21:23] We find common ground at the plant gate [00:21:26] that closes on workers without notice. [00:21:29] We find common ground at the farm [00:21:31] auction where a good farmer loses his or [00:21:34] her land to bad loans or diminishing [00:21:37] markets. Common ground at the schoolyard [00:21:42] where teachers cannot get adequate pay [00:21:45] and students cannot get a scholarship [00:21:48] and can't make a loan. common ground [00:21:51] at the hospital admitting room where [00:21:54] somebody tonight [00:21:56] IS DYING BECAUSE THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO [00:21:59] GO UPSTAIRS TO A BED THAT'S EMPTY [00:22:02] WAITING FOR SOMEONE WITH INSURANCE TO [00:22:03] GET SICK. WE ARE A BETTER NATION THAN [00:22:06] THAT. We must do better. [00:22:18] common ground. [00:22:20] What is leadership if not present help [00:22:24] in a time of crisis? AND SO I MET YOU AT [00:22:27] THE POINT OF challenge in Jane where [00:22:31] paper workers were striking for fair [00:22:32] wages [00:22:34] in Greenville, Iowa where family farmers [00:22:37] struggle for a fair price. In Cleveland, [00:22:40] Ohio, where working women seek [00:22:43] comparable worth in McFarland, [00:22:46] California, WHERE THE CHILDREN OF [00:22:48] HISPANIC FARM workers may be dying from [00:22:51] poison land, dying in clusters with [00:22:54] cancer in AIDS hospice in Houston, [00:22:58] Texas, where the sick support one [00:23:00] another often rejected by their own [00:23:03] parents and friends. Common ground. [00:23:08] America is not a blanket woven from one [00:23:12] thread, [00:23:14] one color, one cloth. When I was a child [00:23:17] growing up in Greenville, South [00:23:19] Carolina, [00:23:21] and grandmama could not afford a [00:23:23] blanket, [00:23:25] she didn't complain and we did not [00:23:26] freeze. [00:23:28] Instead, she took pieces of old cloth, [00:23:30] patches, [00:23:32] wool, silk, gabodine, crocco sack, only [00:23:35] patches, [00:23:36] barely good enough to wipe off his shoes [00:23:39] with. [00:23:40] But they didn't stay that way very long. [00:23:43] With sturdy hands and a strong cord, she [00:23:46] sewed them together into a quilt, a [00:23:49] thing of beauty and power and culture. [00:23:53] Now, Democrats, [00:23:55] WE MUST BUILD SUCH A QUILT. FARMERS, [00:24:00] you seek fair prices, and you are right, [00:24:02] BUT YOU CANNOT STAND ALONE. [00:24:05] Your patch is not big enough. Workers, [00:24:09] you fight for fair wages. You're right, [00:24:11] BUT YOUR PATCH labor is not big enough. [00:24:15] Women, you seek comparable worth and pay [00:24:18] equity. You're right, but your patch is [00:24:22] not big enough. [00:24:25] Women, mothers who seek head start and [00:24:29] daycare and prenatal care on the front [00:24:33] side of life RATHER THAN JAIL CARE AND [00:24:36] welfare on the back side of life. You're [00:24:39] right. But your patch is not big enough. [00:24:44] Students, [00:24:46] YOU SEEK SCHOLARSHIPS. [00:24:48] YOU'RE RIGHT, BUT YOUR PATCH IS NOT BIG [00:24:50] ENOUGH. [00:24:52] BLACKS AND HISPANICS, WHEN WE FIGHT FOR [00:24:54] CIVIL RIGHTS, we are right, BUT OUR [00:24:57] PATCH IS NOT BIG ENOUGH. Gays and [00:25:00] lesbians, WHEN YOU FIGHT AGAINST [00:25:03] discrimination and a cure for AIDS, YOU [00:25:06] ARE RIGHT, BUT YOUR PATCH IS NOT BIG [00:25:10] ENOUGH. conservatives and progressives. [00:25:14] WHEN YOU FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE, [00:25:16] RIGHTWING, LEFTWING, HALT DOVE, YOU ARE [00:25:20] RIGHT [00:25:21] FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW, BUT YOUR POINT [00:25:24] OF VIEW IS NOT ENOUGH. But don't [00:25:26] despair. [00:25:29] Be as wise as my grandmama. [00:25:32] Pull the patches [00:25:35] and the pieces together [00:25:37] bound by a common thread. WHEN WE FORM A [00:25:41] GREAT QUILT OF UNITY AND COMMON GROUND, [00:25:45] WE'LL HAVE THE POWER TO TO BRING ABOUT [00:25:48] HEALTH CARE AND HOUSING AND JOBS AND [00:25:51] EDUCATION AND HOPE to our nation. [00:25:58] We the people can win. [00:26:29] We stand [00:26:31] at the end of a long dark night of [00:26:33] reaction. [00:26:35] We stand tonight united in the [00:26:37] commitment to a new direction. [00:26:40] For almost 8 years, we've been led by [00:26:43] those who view social good coming from [00:26:46] private interest, who viewed public life [00:26:49] as a means to increase private wealth. [00:26:53] They have been prepared to sacrifice the [00:26:55] common good of the many to satisfy the [00:26:59] private interest and the wealth of a [00:27:01] few. [00:27:02] We believe in a government that's a tool [00:27:05] of our democracy in service to the [00:27:08] public, not an INSTRUMENT OF THE [00:27:10] ARISTOCRACY IN search of private wealth. [00:27:13] WE BELIEVE IN GOVERNMENT [00:27:16] WITH THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERN [00:27:20] for and by the people. WE MUST NOW [00:27:22] emerge into a new day with a new [00:27:25] direction. regonomics [00:27:28] based on the belief that the rich had [00:27:30] too much money, too little money, and [00:27:33] the poor had too much. [00:27:36] That's classic regonomics. IT BELIEVED [00:27:39] THAT THE POOR HAD TOO MUCH money and the [00:27:42] rich had too little money. So they [00:27:45] engaged in reverse Robinhood, took from [00:27:49] the poor, gave to the rich, paid for by [00:27:52] the middle class. WE CANNOT STAND FOUR [00:27:56] MORE YEARS of regonomics in any version [00:27:59] in any disguise. [00:28:15] How do I document that case? [00:28:18] 7 years later, THE RICHEST 1% OF OUR [00:28:22] society [00:28:24] pays 20% less in taxes. [00:28:28] THE POOREST 10% PAY 20% more regonomics. [00:28:34] Rean gave the rich and the powerful a [00:28:37] multi-billion dollar party. [00:28:39] Now the party is over. He expects the [00:28:42] people to pay FOR THE DAMAGE. [00:28:45] I TAKE THIS PRINCIPAL POSITION [00:28:48] CONVENTION. Let us not raise taxes on [00:28:51] the poor and the middle class. BUT THOSE [00:28:54] WHO HAD THE PARTY, THE RICH AND THE [00:28:56] POWERFUL MUST PAY FOR THE PARTY. [00:29:13] I JUST WANT TO TAKE COMMON SENSE TO HIGH [00:29:15] PLACES. [00:29:17] We're spending [00:29:20] $150 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR [00:29:24] DEFENDING EUROPE AND JAPAN 43 years [00:29:27] after the war is over. [00:29:29] We have more troops in Europe tonight [00:29:32] than we had 7 years ago. [00:29:35] Yet, the threat of war is ever more [00:29:37] remote. Germany and Japan are not [00:29:40] predator nations. [00:29:43] That means they got a surplus. [00:29:46] We are a detonation. Means we are in [00:29:48] debt. LET THEM SHARE MORE OF THE BURDEN [00:29:52] OF THEIR own defense. USE SOME OF THAT [00:29:55] MONEY TO BUILD DECENT HOUSING. USE SOME [00:29:59] OF THAT MONEY TO EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN. [00:30:02] USE SOME OF THAT MONEY FOR LONG-TERM [00:30:05] HEALTH CARE. USE SOME OF THAT MONEY TO [00:30:07] WIPE OUT THESE SLUMS AND PUT AMERICA [00:30:10] BACK TO WORK. [00:30:29] I JUST WANT TO TAKE COMMON SENSE TO HIGH [00:30:32] PLACES. [00:30:33] IF WE CAN BAIL out Europe and Japan, IF [00:30:38] WE CAN BAIL OUT CONTINENTAL BANK AND [00:30:41] CHRYSLER AND MR. I KOKA make $8,000 [00:30:46] AN HOUR, WE CAN BAIL OUT THE FAMILY [00:30:48] FARMER. [00:30:59] I just want to make common sense. It [00:31:02] does not make sense to close down [00:31:05] 650,000 [00:31:07] family farms in THIS COUNTRY WHILE [00:31:11] IMPORTING FOOD FROM ABROAD SUBSIDIZED BY [00:31:14] THE US GOVERNMENT. Let's make sense. [00:31:18] It does not make SENSE TO BE ESCORTING [00:31:22] OIL TANKERS UP AND DOWN THE PERSIAN [00:31:25] GULF, PAYING $250 FOR EVERY $1 WORTH OF [00:31:30] OIL WE BRING OUT. WHILE ALWAYS A CAP IN [00:31:33] TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, AND LOUISIANA. I just [00:31:36] want to make sense [00:31:49] leadership [00:31:52] must meet the moral challenge of its [00:31:54] day. [00:31:56] WHAT'S THE MORAL CHALLENGE OF OUR DAY? [00:31:58] WE HAVE PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. [00:32:02] WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE. [00:32:05] WE HAVE OPEN HOUSING. WHAT'S THE [00:32:07] FUNDAMENTAL CHALLENGE OF OUR DAY? IT IS [00:32:10] TO END ECONOMIC VIOLENCE. [00:32:12] PLANT CLOSINGS WITHOUT NOTICE. ECONOMIC [00:32:14] VIOLENCE. [00:32:17] EVEN THE GREEDY DO NOT PROFIT LONG FROM [00:32:20] GREED. ECONOMIC VIOLENCE. [00:32:24] Most poor people [00:32:26] are not lazy. [00:32:29] They're not black. They're not brown. [00:32:38] They're most of white and female and [00:32:40] young. [00:32:41] But what if white, black, or brown? A [00:32:44] hungry baby barely turned inside out is [00:32:47] the same color. Colored pain, [00:32:51] colored hurt, colored agony. [00:32:54] Most poor people [00:32:57] are not on welfare. [00:33:00] Some of them are illiterate and can't [00:33:02] read the warn ad sections. When they [00:33:04] can, they can't find a job that matches [00:33:06] THE ADDRESS. THEY WORK HARD EVERY DAY. I [00:33:09] KNOW. I LIVE AMONGST THEM. I'M ONE OF [00:33:12] THEM. I KNOW THEY WORK. I'm a witness. [00:33:15] THEY CATCH THE EARLY BUS. [00:33:18] They work every day. They raise other [00:33:21] people's children. [00:33:23] They work every day. [00:33:27] They clean the streets. [00:33:30] >> THEY WORK EVERY DAY. THEY DRIVE [00:33:33] dangerous cabs. They work every day. [00:33:36] THEY CHANGE THE BEDS YOU SLEPT IN IN [00:33:38] THESE HOTELS LAST NIGHT AND CAN'T GET A [00:33:41] UNION CONTRACT. THEY WORK every day. [00:33:53] NO, NO, THEY ARE NOT LAZY. SOMEONE MUST [00:33:57] DEFEND THEM BECAUSE IT'S RIGHT AND THEY [00:33:59] CANNOT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. [00:34:02] They work IN HOSPITALS. I KNOW THEY DO. [00:34:05] They wipe the bodies of those who are [00:34:08] SICK WITH FEVER AND PAIN. [00:34:13] They empty their bed pans. [00:34:16] They could not DECK A MOLD. NO JOB IS [00:34:18] BENEATH THEM. And yet when they get [00:34:20] sick, they cannot lie in the bed they [00:34:24] made UP EVERY DAY. AMERICA, that is NOT [00:34:26] RIGHT. WE ARE A BETTER NATION THAN THAT. [00:34:30] WE ARE A BETTER NATION than that. [00:34:46] We need a real war on drugs. [00:34:50] You can't just say no. [00:34:54] It's deeper than that. [00:34:56] YOU CAN'T JUST GET A PALM READER ON [00:34:58] ASTROLOGER. IT'S MORE PROFOUND than [00:35:00] that. [00:35:11] We are spending [00:35:13] $150 billion on drugs a year. [00:35:20] We've gone from ignoring it to focusing [00:35:22] on the children. [00:35:25] Children cannot buy $150 billion worth [00:35:30] of drugs a year. [00:35:33] A FEW HIGH-PROFILE ATHLETES ATHLETES ARE [00:35:37] NOT laundering [00:35:39] $150 billion a year. Bankers are [00:35:47] I met the children in watch who [00:35:50] unfortunately in their despair [00:35:54] their grapes of hope have become raisins [00:35:56] of despair and they're turning ON EACH [00:35:58] OTHER AND THEY'RE SELF-DESTRUCTING. BUT [00:36:00] I STAYED WITH THEM ALL NIGHT LONG. I [00:36:02] WANT TO HEAR THEIR CASE. [00:36:05] They said, "Jesse Jackson, as you [00:36:06] challenge us to say no to drugs, you're [00:36:09] right. [00:36:10] And to not sell them, you're right. If [00:36:14] not use these guns, you're right. [00:36:17] By the way, the promise of scepter, [00:36:21] they displace Cedar. They did not [00:36:24] replace Cedar. We have neither jobs nor [00:36:28] houses houses nor services nor training [00:36:32] nor WAY OUT. SOME OF US TAKE DRUGS AS [00:36:35] ANESTHESIA FOR OUR PAIN. Some take drugs [00:36:40] as a way of pleasure to short-term [00:36:43] pleasure and long-term pain. SOME SELL [00:36:46] DRUGS TO MAKE MONEY. IT'S WRONG. We [00:36:48] know. But you need to know that we know [00:36:52] we can go and buy the drugs [00:36:55] by the boxes [00:36:57] at the port. If we can buy the drugs at [00:37:00] the port, don't you believe the federal [00:37:03] government can stop it if they want to? [00:37:13] They say we don't have [00:37:15] Saturday night specials anymore. [00:37:18] They say, "WE BUY AK-47S and oozers, THE [00:37:21] LATEST NATO WEAPONS. WE BUY THEM ACROSS [00:37:24] THE COUNTER ON LONG BEACH BOULEVARD. [00:37:29] YOU CANNOT FIGHT A WAR ON DRUGS UNLESS [00:37:33] UNTIL YOU'RE GOING TO CHALLENGE THE [00:37:34] BANKERS AND THE GUN SELLERS AND THOSE [00:37:36] WHO GROW THEM. DON'T JUST FOCUS ON THE [00:37:40] CHILDREN. LET'S STOP DRUGS AT THE LEVEL [00:37:42] OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND. WE MUST END THE [00:37:45] scourge on the American culture. [00:37:59] Leadership, [00:38:01] what difference will we make? Leadership [00:38:06] cannot just go along to get along. [00:38:10] We must do more than change presidents. [00:38:14] We must change direction. [00:38:17] Leadership [00:38:20] must face the moral challenge of our [00:38:22] day. [00:38:23] The nuclear war buildup is irrational. [00:38:29] Strong leadership [00:38:31] cannot desire to look tough and let that [00:38:35] stand in the way of the pursuit of [00:38:37] peace. LEADERSHIP [00:38:39] MUST REVERSE THE ARMS RACE. [00:38:43] AT LEAST WE SHOULD PLEDGE NO FRESH USE. [00:38:46] WHY? BECAUSE FRESH USE BE RETALIATION [00:38:50] AND THAT'S MUTUAL ANNIHILATION. THAT'S [00:38:53] NOT A RATIONAL WAY OUT. [00:38:56] NO USE AT ALL. LET'S THINK IT OUT AND [00:39:00] NOT FIGHT IT OUT BECAUSE IT'S AN [00:39:02] UNWINABLE FIGHT. WHY HOLD A CAR THAT YOU [00:39:04] CAN never drop? [00:39:06] Let's give peace a chance. Leadership. [00:39:10] WE NOW HAVE THIS MARVELOUS OPPORTUNITY [00:39:12] TO HAVE A BREAKTHROUGH with the Soviets. [00:39:14] Last year, 200,000 Americans visit the [00:39:18] Soviet Union. [00:39:20] There's a chance for joint ventures in [00:39:22] the space. Not Star Wars and war arms [00:39:27] escalation, but a space DEFENSE [00:39:30] INITIATIVE. Let's build IN THE SPACE [00:39:32] TOGETHER AND DEMILITARIZE THE HEAVENS. [00:39:35] There's a way out. [00:39:40] America, let us expand. When Mr. Reagan [00:39:44] and Mr. Gorbachoff met, [00:39:47] it was a big meeting. They represented [00:39:50] together 1/8 of the human race. [00:39:53] 78 of the human race was locked out of [00:39:55] that room. [00:39:57] Most people in the world tonight, half [00:39:59] are Asian, one half of them are Chinese. [00:40:03] There are 22 nations in the Middle East. [00:40:06] There's Europe. 400 million Latin [00:40:08] Americans next door to us. The [00:40:10] Caribbean, Africa, a half billion [00:40:13] people. Most people in the world today [00:40:15] are yellow or brown or black, [00:40:18] non-Christian, poor, female, young, and [00:40:21] don't speak English. In the real world, [00:40:25] this generation must offer LEADERSHIP TO [00:40:27] THE REAL WORLD. [00:40:29] WE'RE LOSING GROUND IN LATIN AMERICA, [00:40:31] Middle East, South Africa because we're [00:40:33] not focusing on the real world, THAT [00:40:35] REAL WORLD. WE MUST USE BASIC [00:40:38] PRINCIPLES. SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL LAW. [00:40:42] WE STAND THE MOST TO GAIN FROM IT. [00:40:45] SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS. WE BELIEVE in [00:40:48] that. Support self-determination. [00:40:51] WE'RE BUILT ON THAT. SUPPORT ECONOMIC [00:40:54] DEVELOPMENT. YOU KNOW IT'S RIGHT. BE [00:40:57] CONSISTENT AND GAIN OUR MORAL AUTHORITY [00:41:00] IN THE WORLD. I CHALLENGE YOU TONIGHT, [00:41:03] MY FRIENDS. LET'S BE BIGGER AND BETTER [00:41:05] AS A NATION and as a party. [00:41:23] We have BASIC CHALLENGES. [00:41:27] FREEDOM IN SOUTH AFRICA. [00:41:30] WE'VE ALREADY AGREED AS DEMOCRATS TO [00:41:32] DECLARE SOUTH AFRICA TO be a terrorist [00:41:34] state. But don't JUST STOP THERE. GET [00:41:37] SOUTH AFRICA OUT OF ANGOLA. Free [00:41:40] Namibia. SUPPORT THE FRONTLINE STATES. [00:41:43] WE MUST HAVE A new humane human rights [00:41:47] and system policy in Africa. [00:41:52] I'm often asked Jess say [00:41:55] why do you take on these tough issues. [00:42:00] They are not very political. [00:42:03] We can't win that way. [00:42:06] If an issue is morally right, [00:42:10] it will eventually be political. [00:42:12] It may be political and never be right. [00:42:18] Fanny Liu Hammer didn't have the most [00:42:19] votes in Atlantic City, [00:42:22] but her principles have outlasted every [00:42:24] delegate who voted to lock her out. Rosa [00:42:28] Parks did not have the most votes, but [00:42:31] she was morally right. Dr. King didn't [00:42:34] have the most votes about the Vietnam [00:42:35] War, but he was morally right. IF WE'RE [00:42:38] PRINCIPLED FIRST, OUR POLITICS will fall [00:42:40] in place. [00:42:42] Jesse, why do you take these big bold [00:42:45] initiatives? [00:42:47] A poem by an unknown author went [00:42:49] something like this. We mastered the [00:42:51] air. We've conquered the sea, [00:42:54] annihilated distance, and prolonged [00:42:56] life. But we're not wise enough to live [00:42:59] on this earth without war, and without [00:43:01] hate. [00:43:02] As for Jesse Jackson, I'm tired of [00:43:06] sailing my little boat [00:43:08] for inside the harbor bar. I want to go [00:43:11] out where the big ships float, out on [00:43:14] the deep where the great ones are. [00:43:17] AND SHOULD MY FRAIL CRAFT prove too [00:43:20] slight, the waves that sweep those [00:43:23] billers or I'd rather go down in the [00:43:26] stirring fight than drows to death and [00:43:29] the sheltered show up. WE GOT TO GO OUT, [00:43:32] MY FRIENDS, where the big boats are. [00:43:43] And then [00:43:45] for our children, [00:43:47] young America, [00:43:49] hold your head high now. [00:43:52] We can win. [00:43:54] >> We must not lose you to drugs and [00:43:56] violence, [00:43:58] premature pregnancy, suicide, cynicism, [00:44:01] pessimism, and despair. [00:44:03] We can win. [00:44:05] Wherever you are tonight, I challenge [00:44:07] you to hope and the dream. [00:44:10] Don't submerge your dreams. [00:44:13] EXERCISE ABOVE ALL ELSE. [00:44:17] Even on drugs, dream of the day you're [00:44:20] drug free. [00:44:22] >> EVEN IN THE GUTTER, DREAM OF THE DAY [00:44:25] THAT YOU'LL BE up on your feet again. [00:44:28] You must never stop dreaming. [00:44:32] Face reality, yes, but don't stop with [00:44:35] the way things are. Dream of things as [00:44:37] they ought to be. Dream, [00:44:39] face pain, but love, hope, faith, and [00:44:43] dreams will help you rise above the [00:44:45] pain. [00:44:46] Use hope and imagination as weapons of [00:44:49] survival and progress. But you keep on [00:44:51] dreaming, young America. Dream of peace. [00:44:55] Peace is rational and reasonable. [00:44:59] War is irrational in this age. and [00:45:01] unwinable. [00:45:03] Dream of teachers [00:45:05] WHO TEACH FOR LIFE AND NOT FOR A LIVING. [00:45:07] Dream [00:45:09] of doctors who are concerned more about [00:45:11] public health than private wealth. Dream [00:45:14] of lawyers MORE CONCERNED ABOUT JUSTICE [00:45:17] AND A JUDGESHIP. DREAM OF PREACHERS WHO [00:45:19] ARE CONCERNED MORE ABOUT PROFIT than [00:45:21] prophetering. Dream on the high road [00:45:24] with sound values. [00:45:26] And then America [00:45:29] as we go forth to September, [00:45:32] October, November, then beyond, [00:45:35] America must never surrender to a high [00:45:38] moral challenge. [00:45:41] Do not surrender to drugs. [00:45:43] The best drug policy is a no first use. [00:45:47] >> Don't surrender with needles and [00:45:48] cynicism. [00:45:52] Let's have no first use on the one hand, [00:45:54] our clinics on the other. Never [00:45:57] surrender, young America. Go forward. [00:46:00] America must never surrender to [00:46:02] malnutrition. [00:46:03] We can feed the hungry and clothe the [00:46:06] naked. We must never surrender. We must [00:46:10] go forward. WE MUST NEVER SURRENDER TO [00:46:13] ILLITERACY. [00:46:14] INVEST IN OUR CHILDREN. NEVER surrender [00:46:18] and go forward. We must never surrender [00:46:21] to inequality. [00:46:23] WOMEN CANNOT COMPROMISE ERRA OR [00:46:26] comparable worth. Women are making 60 [00:46:29] cents on the dollar to what a man makes. [00:46:31] WOMEN CANNOT BUY MEAT CHEAPER. WOMEN [00:46:34] CANNOT BUY BREAD CHEAPER. WOMEN CANNOT [00:46:37] BUY MILK CHEAPER. WOMEN DESERVE TO GET [00:46:40] PAID FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO. It's [00:46:42] right and it's fair. [00:46:52] Don't surrender, my friends. [00:46:56] Those who have AIDS tonight, YOU DESERVE [00:47:00] OUR COMPASSION. EVEN WITH AIDS, YOU MUST [00:47:02] NOT SURRENDER IN YOUR WHEELCHAIRS. I see [00:47:04] you sitting here tonight in those [00:47:06] wheelchairs. [00:47:08] I'VE STAYED WITH YOU. I'VE REACHED OUT [00:47:09] TO YOU ACROSS OUR NATION. AND DON'T you [00:47:11] give up. I know it's tough sometime. [00:47:14] People look down on you. It took you a [00:47:18] little more effort to get here tonight. [00:47:20] And no one should look down on you, but [00:47:22] sometimes [00:47:24] mean people do. The only justification [00:47:26] we have for looking down on someone is [00:47:28] that we're going to stop and pick them [00:47:30] up. BUT EVEN IN YOUR WHEELCHAIRS, DON'T [00:47:33] YOU GIVE UP. WE CANNOT FORGET 50 YEARS [00:47:37] ago when our BACKS WERE AGAINST THE [00:47:39] WALL, ROOSEVELT WAS IN A WHEELCHAIR. I [00:47:42] WOULD RATHER HAVE ROOSEVELT IN A [00:47:43] WHEELCHAIR than Reagan and Bush on a [00:47:45] horse. [00:47:48] Don't you surrender and don't you give [00:47:50] up. Don't surrender [00:47:53] and don't give up. [00:48:03] Why can I challenge you this way? Jesse [00:48:06] Jackson, you don't understand my [00:48:08] situation. [00:48:10] You'll be on television. [00:48:14] You don't understand. [00:48:17] I see with you with the big people. [00:48:20] You don't you don't understand my [00:48:22] situation. [00:48:24] I understand. [00:48:27] You see me on TV, but you don't know the [00:48:29] me that makes me me. [00:48:32] They wonder why does Jesse run? [00:48:36] Because they see me running for the [00:48:37] White House. [00:48:39] They don't see the house I'm running [00:48:40] from. [00:48:42] I have a story. [00:48:50] I wasn't always on television. [00:48:55] Rogers were not always outside my door. [00:48:58] When I was born late one afternoon, [00:49:00] October 8th in Greenville, South [00:49:02] Carolina, no writers asked my mother her [00:49:05] name. [00:49:07] Nobody chose to write down our address. [00:49:10] A mama was not supposed to make it. And [00:49:13] I was not supposed to make it. You see, [00:49:18] I was born a teenage mother. [00:49:20] Who was born that teenage mother? [00:49:24] I understand. [00:49:27] I know abandonment [00:49:30] and people being mean to you [00:49:33] and saying you're nothing and nobody [00:49:35] and can never be anything. [00:49:38] I understand [00:49:41] Jesse Jackson [00:49:43] is my third name. [00:49:46] I'm adopted. [00:49:48] When I had no name, my grandmother gave [00:49:50] me her name. My name was Jesse Burns [00:49:53] till I was 12. [00:49:56] so I wouldn't have a blank space. She [00:49:57] gave me a name [00:49:59] to hold me over. [00:50:02] I understand [00:50:04] when nobody knows your name. I [00:50:07] understand when you have no name. [00:50:10] I understand. [00:50:13] I wasn't born in the hospital. [00:50:16] Mama didn't have insurance. [00:50:20] I was born in the bed [00:50:23] at house. I really do understand. [00:50:27] Born in a three- room house. [00:50:30] Bathroom in the backyard. [00:50:34] Slop job by the bed. [00:50:36] No hot and cold running water. [00:50:40] I understand. [00:50:43] Wallpaper used for decoration. No. For a [00:50:46] windbreaker. [00:50:49] I understand. [00:50:52] I'm a working person's person. [00:50:54] That's why I understand you whether you [00:50:55] are black or white. I understand work. I [00:50:58] was not born with a silver spoon in my [00:51:00] mouth. I had a shovel program for my [00:51:03] hand. My mother a working woman. [00:51:08] So many of the days she went to work [00:51:09] early with runs in her stockings. [00:51:13] She knew better. But she rolled in her [00:51:16] stockings so that my brother and I could [00:51:18] have matching socks and not be laughed [00:51:21] at at school. [00:51:24] I understand [00:51:26] at 3:00 on Thanksgiving day, we couldn't [00:51:29] eat turkey because mama was preparing [00:51:32] somebody else's turkey at 3:00. We had [00:51:34] to play football to entertain ourselves. [00:51:37] And then around 6:00, she would get off [00:51:38] the vista bus and we would bring up the [00:51:40] leftovers and eat our turkey leftovers, [00:51:43] the caucus, the cranberries around 8:00 [00:51:46] at night. [00:51:48] I really do understand [00:51:50] every one of these funny labels they put [00:51:53] on you. Those of you who are watching [00:51:55] this broadcast tonight in the projects [00:51:58] on the corners, I UNDERSTAND. [00:52:00] Call you outcast, [00:52:03] low down, you can't make it. You're [00:52:05] nothing. You're from nobody. [00:52:08] Subclass, underclass. When you see Jesse [00:52:11] Jackson, when my name goes in [00:52:13] nomination, your name goes in [00:52:16] nomination. I was born in the slum, but [00:52:19] the slum was not born in me. And it [00:52:22] wasn't born in you, and you can make it. [00:52:25] WHEREVER YOU ARE TONIGHT, you can make [00:52:28] it. [00:52:30] Hold your head high. [00:52:32] STICK YOUR CHEST OUT. You can make it. [00:52:36] IT GETS DARK SOMETIMES, BUT THE MORNING [00:52:39] COMES. DON'T YOU SURRENDER. [00:52:42] SUFFERING. CHARACTER. CHARACTER. FAITH. [00:52:46] IN THE END, FAITH WILL NOT DISAPPOINT. [00:52:49] YOU MUST NOT SURRENDER. YOU MAY OR MAY [00:52:52] NOT GET THERE, BUT JUST KNOW THAT YOU [00:52:54] ARE QUALIFIED AND YOU HOLD ON AND HOLD [00:52:57] OUT. WE MUST NEVER SURRENDER. AMERICA [00:53:01] WILL GET BETTER and better. Keep hope [00:53:05] alive. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive [00:53:10] on tomorrow night AND BEYOND. [00:53:13] KEEP HOPE ALIVE. I love you very much. [00:53:17] I love you very much. [00:53:33] Heat up [00:54:00] here. [00:54:24] Heat. Heat. [00:54:39] Heat. [00:54:42] Heat. [00:55:08] Heat. Heat. [00:55:14] Heat. [00:55:29] Heat.