As one of the great leaders in American history...
Dr. Martin Luther King jr. said...
And I quote...
"Call it democracy..."
"...or call it democratic socialism..."
"...but there must be a better distribution of wealth..."
"...within this country..."
"...for all of God's children"
The poor black and white of still perishing...
...on a lonely island of poverty...
...in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
There is something immoral...
...about three families in America owning more wealth than the bottom half of America!
"Yes, the hour is dark."
"Evil comes forth in the guise of good."
"It is a time of double-talk."
But I'm not advocating guns in classrooms...
Although in some cases teachers should have guns in classrooms.
"Men in high places have a high blood pressure of deceptive rhetoric."
Alternative facts.
"We cry out against welfare handouts to the poor..."
The Trump administration is scaling back social safety net programs.
"But generously approve an oil depletion depletion allowance to make the rich richer."
The Dakota Access Pipeline
"Not only that---millions of dollars in federal subsidies every year."
The Trump administration has authorized 16 billion dollars this year alone to agribusiness.
Millions---yes BILLIONS...
...are appropriated for mass murder.
Donald Trump today called for more more and more military spending.
Senate passes six hundred and seventy four billion dollar military spending bill.
Every single Democratic senator supported the bill.
Every Democratic senator supported the bill.
One independent senator Bernie Sanders opposed it.
American people say I can't afford to send my kid to college!
I can't afford child care!
I can't afford housing!
We need help there.
Ah. But nobody listens to that.
We don't have lobbyists here fighting for working families.
So they can find affordable housing or affordable prescription drugs!
Now Donald Trump has told literally thousands of lies.
But the biggest lie was that he was gonna stand up for working families!
What they truly advocate is socialism for rich.
Eighty-three percent of the benefits of his tax bill go to the one percent!
A true revolution of values will soon look on easily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
Which says to the billionaire class,
"You can't have it all!"
[Huge applause]
"Now we are dealing with issues that cannot be solved without the nation spending billions of dollars..."
"...and undergoing a radical redistribution of economic power."
I didn't hear the establishment moaning about how radical and crazy it was that...
...trillions of dollars left the pockets of the middle class!
Now when I'm talking about giving the middle class a break all these guys are up in arms.
No, you're getting a normative argument. I agree with it. The question how do you get it done?
"Our only hope today..."
"...lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit."
Welcome to the political revolution!
[Huge applause]
You want a candidate who was gonna defeat Donald Trump?
You're looking at that candidate!
"Whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt..."
"...he had a pavement favorite formula for doing it."
[Trump laughs]
"What was that?"
Doing what would that doing what demagogues always do...
"He kept the plays fighting among themselves."
"But when the slaves get together..."
"...that's the beginning of getting out of slavery!"
Stand together! Not as red state and blue sate. But as working people. Fighting for dignitiy!
We must finally create a government and an economy that works for all of us...
...not just the one percent.
[Huge applause]
And that is what I mean by Democratic Socialism!
"These are revolutionary times."
mean by democratic socialism these are revolutionary times tonight we say to
our government we even say to our FBI we will not be harassed we will not make
a butchery of our conscience we will not be intimidated and we will be heard
that is a need now more than ever before for men and women in our nation to be
creatively maladjusted we shall boldly challenge the status quo
to make the tiler structure of this nation say yes when they may be desirous
of saying no we must afford at least as much to our children's education and the
health of the poor as we do to the care of our mobiles and the building of
beautiful impressive hotels