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[VOTE 2008 / OBAMA AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA] [SELMA, ALA USA] FTG OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-ILL) AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA 12:28:32 Obama standing 12:29:01 Obama sits back down 12:41:55 Obama receiving a standing ovation 12:42:08 Obama smiling and laughing 12:46:07 Obama standing behind preacher 12:46:21 Obama clapping and sitting back down 12:52:41 Obama clapping 13:16:19 I want to start by saying I want to thank him for his support . 13:17:14 Somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage . 13:17:39 To all the distinguished guests and clergy. I'm not sure I'm going to thank the . because he stole the show . nervous about following so many great clergy men .. 13:18:31 Thanks you very much for letting me speak . after I announced I was running for president of the united states . drawing from script 13:19:24 I acknowledge there is a certain amount of presumptuousness with this . his son is now preacher at my church . I got a letter giving me encouragement telling me how proud he was and reminded me to stay true to my ideals . tell them to look at the story of Joshua . 13:20:37 So I just want to talk a little bit about . we are in the presence today of a lot of Moses' . people who battle on behalf of all of America . endured taunts and torments . gave full measure of their devotion . who said that some are atop and some are at the bottom and that's how it will always be . 13:22:53 They wondered through a desert and knowing that god was with them . and it's because they marched that the next generation has not been as bloodied . it's because they marched that I stand here today . 13:23:54 Because not only is my career the result of the men and women we honor here today, my very existence might not have happened . you don't understand, my grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya . 13:25:24 Yet something happened here in Selma Alabama . 13:26:25 Worried folks in the white house, we're fighting communism . the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift . this young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets . 13:27:46 Don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma Alabama . I'm here because ya'll sacrificed or me . I stand on your shoulders . 13:32:36 Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence, you have to fill that . second thing is the principals of equality is not a one sided thing . 13:33:43 They have basically spent all their time worrying about affirmative action . reminds us we still have a lot work to do . we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough . that is something that we have got to continue to work on 13:35:40 Third thing, we fought for civil rights, but we still have a lot of economic rights to work for . we've got what's know as a health care disparity . life expectancy is lower in the minorities . we have fewer teachers and text books in the schools . health care gap and achievement gap 13:37:00 New Orleans still looks bombed out . when 9-11 happened, they waived any requirement . because they understood . federal government says where's your 10%. There's an empathy gap . 13:38:02 Not a gap the American people felt . the government was the problem . because many of those communities . hope gap . 13:38:40 The question is, what are we the Joshua generation doing to close the gap .. Are we ensuring . and giving a second chance 13:39:29 Government can help . make sure the government is responsive . it's enough to ask with the government can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves . 13:41:24 I tell you what, even as I fight for more education funding . if parents don't turn off the television set . it we don't instill a sense in our young children . we've got to get over that mentality . 13:42:14 Telling ourselves we can achieve . we can do that. We can achieve. 13:42:37 I'm in Washington, I see what's going on . I also know that cousin poky wasn't voting . kick off your marching slippers, put on your marching shoes . 13:43:44 They think that fatherhood ends at conception . I went through some difficult times . 13:44:53 It wasn't just a fight against the oppressor, it was a fight against the oppressor in all of us . it has a way of stunting yourself . part of what the civil rights movement was realizing you have to change more then just ourselves . 13:46:04 That is something that the greatest and the most honorable of generations has taught us . we do what we do because God is with us . 13:46:56 The same thing happened with the Joshua generation . not sure I can do this . be strong and have courage . that's a prayer for a journey . 13:48:31 We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to go . that bridge was crossed . and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our generation .. Liberty in the face of injustice . 13:49:56 Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey . be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice . hopelessness 13:50:29 In the face of a mighty river, be strong and have courage and lets cross that bridge together, thank you 13:50:55 Obama embracing various members of the clergy on stage 13:51:37 Obama sits back down 13:56:42 Obama head down in prayer and song SEGMENT [1] 2007/03/04 ************************************************ SENATOR BARACK OBAMA SPEAKING AT THE BROWN CHAPEL IN SELMA, ALABAMA 13:16:08 SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: I MUST BEGIN BECAUSE AT THE 13:16:16 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS MORNING, I WAS SAVING HIM FOR LAST AND THE 13:16:20 LIST OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WAS SO LONG, I LEFT HIM OUT AFTER THAT 13:16:25 INTRODUCTION, SO I'M GOING TO START BY SAYING HOW MUCH I 13:16:29 APPRECIATE THE FRIENDSHIP AND THE SUPPORT AND THE OUTSTANDING 13:16:33 WORK THAT HE DOES EACH AND EVERY DAY, NOT JUST IN CAPITOL HILL 13:16:39 BUT ALSO BACK HERE IN THE DISTRICT, PLEASE GIVE A WARM 13:16:42 ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN ARTUR DAVIS. 13:16:45 [ APPLAUSE ] IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE, 13:16:58 REVEREND JACKSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TO THE FAMILY OF BROWN 13:17:04 AM & E AND BISHOP KIRKLAND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL 13:17:09 MESSAGE AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE OF THE 13:17:16 GREAT HEROS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND AMERICAN LIFE, SOMEBODY WHO 13:17:29 CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF DECENCY AND COURAGE, SOMEBODY WHO I HAVE 13:17:35 ADMIRED ALL MY LIFE AND WERE IT NOT FOR HIM I'M NOT SURE I WOULD 13:17:41 BE HERE TODAY, CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, I'M THANKFUL TO HIM. 13:17:44 [ APPLAUSE ] TO ALL THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS 13:17:51 AND CLERGY, I'M NOT SURE I'M GOING TO THANK REVEREND LOWERY 13:17:56 BECAUSE HE STOLE THE SHOW. [ LAUGHTER ] 13:18:06 I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER I KNOW WE'VE GOT C.T. VIVIAN AND ALL 13:18:11 THIS. WHEN YOU HAVE TO SPEAK IN FRONT 13:18:12 OF SOMEBODY WHO MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID WAS THE GREATEST 13:18:15 PREACHER HE EVER HEARD THEN YOU GOT SOME PROBLEMS, AND I'M A 13:18:19 LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT FOLLOWING SO MANY GREAT PREACHERS. 13:18:28 BUT I AM HOPING THAT THE SPIRIT MOVES ME. 13:18:31 TO ALL MY CONGRESSIONAL COLLEAGUES AND OTHER ELECTED 13:18:34 OFFICIALS WERE HERE, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO HAVE GIVEN ME SUCH A 13:18:38 WARM WELCOME, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TO 13:18:42 YOU HERE TODAY. YOU KNOW, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, 13:18:50 AFTER I HAD ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF 13:18:55 THE UNITED STATES, I STOOD IN FRONT OF THE OLD STATE CAPITOL 13:18:59 IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DELIVERED HIS 13:19:05 SPEECH DECLARING DASH DRAWING FROM SCRIPTURE THAT A HOUSE 13:19:09 DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF COULD NOT STAND, AND I STOOD AND I 13:19:13 ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY, AND THERE WERE A 13:19:17 LOT OF COMMENTATORS AS THEY ARE PRONE TO DO WHO QUESTIONED THE 13:19:24 AUDACITY OF A YOUNG MAN LIKE MYSELF, HADN'T BEEN IN 13:19:29 WASHINGTON TOO LONG AND I ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE'S A 13:19:34 CERTAIN PRESUMPTUOUSNESS ABOUT THIS, BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM A 13:19:40 FRIEND OF SOME OF YOURS NAMED REVEREND OTIS MALSH JR. IN 13:19:49 CLEVELAND, ILLINOIS, AND HIS SON, OTIS MOSS III IS NOW 13:19:54 PASTORING AT MY CHURCH, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST AND I 13:19:59 MUST SEND GREETINGS FROM OUR SENIOR PASTOR DR. INJURE MYA A. 13:20:05 WRIGHT JR., BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM REVEREND OTIS MOSS JR. 13:20:10 GIVING ME ENCOURAGEMENT AND SAYING HOW PROUD HE WAS THAT I 13:20:15 HAD ANNOUNCED, AND ENCOURAGING ME TO STAY TRUE TO MY IDEALS AND 13:20:23 MY VALUES AND NOT TO BE FEARFUL AND HE SAID IF THERE'S SOME 13:20:29 FOLKS OUT THERE WHO ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT YOU 13:20:34 SHOULD RUN, JUST TELL THEM TO LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOSHUA. 13:20:43 BECAUSE YOU'RE PART OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:20:47 AND SO I JUST WANT TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT MOSES AND AARON AND 13:20:53 JOSHUA. BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE 13:21:00 TODAY OF A LOT OF MOSESS. WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE TODAY OF 13:21:08 GIANTS WHOSE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON, PEOPLE WHO BATTLED ON 13:21:17 BEHALF, NOT JUST OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, BUT ON BEHALF 13:21:21 OF ALL OF AMERICA, THAT BATTLED FOR AMERICA'S SOUL, THAT SHED 13:21:31 BLOOD, THAT ENDURED TAUNTS AND TORMENT AND IN SOME CASES GAVE 13:21:37 THE FULL MEASURE OF THEIR DEVOTION. 13:21:41 LIKE MOSES, THEY CHALLENGED FARROW, THE PRINCES AND POWERS, 13:21:51 WHO SAID THAT SOME ARE ATOP AND OTHERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM, AND 13:21:57 THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE. 13:22:00 THERE WERE PEOPLE LIKE ANNA COOPER AND MARIE FOSTER AND 13:22:05 JIMMY LEE JACKSON AND MAURICE OLETT, C.T. VIVIAN, REVEREND 13:22:13 LOWERY, JOHN LEWIS, WHO SAID WE CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, 13:22:19 THAT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE FOR US TOO. 13:22:23 THAT GOD HAS MADE US IN HIS IMAGE, AND THAT WE REJECT THE 13:22:28 NOTION THAT WE WILL FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES BE CONFINED TO A 13:22:33 STATION OF INFERIORITY, THAT WE CAN ASPIRE TO THE HIGHEST OF 13:22:39 HEIGHTS THAT OUR TALENTS CAN BE EXPRESSED TO THEIR FULLEST. 13:22:45 AND SO BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY ENDURED, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY 13:22:50 MARCHED, THEY LED A PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:22:56 THEY TOOK THEM ACROSS A SEA THAT FOLKS THOUGHT COULD NOT BE 13:23:02 PARTED. THEY WANDERED THROUGH A DESERT, 13:23:06 BUT ALWAYS KNOWING THAT GOD WAS WITH THEM AND THAT IF THEY 13:23:11 MAINTAINED THAT TRUST IN GOD, THAT THEY WOULD BE ALL RIGHT. 13:23:17 AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT THE NEXT GENERATION HASN'T 13:23:25 BEEN BLOODED SO MUCH. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT 13:23:28 WE ELECTED COUNCILMEN AND CONGRESSMEN. 13:23:32 IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT WE HAVE ARTUR DAVIS AND KEITH 13:23:37 ELLISON. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I 13:23:39 GOT THE KIND OF EDUCATION I GOT, THAT I GOT A LAW DEGREE AND A 13:23:45 SEAT IN THE ILLINOIS SENATE AND ULTIMATELY IN THE UNITED STATES 13:23:48 SENATE IS BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU HERE 13:23:50 TODAY. AND I WAS MENTIONING AT THE 13:24:02 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS IMPORTANT, MY DEBT IS EVEN GREATER THAN 13:24:05 THAT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS MY CAREER THE RESULT OF THE WORK OF 13:24:13 THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WE HONOR HERE TODAY, MY VERY EXISTENCE 13:24:21 MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SOME OF THE 13:24:24 FOLKS HERE TODAY. I MENTIONED AT THE UNITY 13:24:28 BREAKFAST THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING, WELL, YOU 13:24:31 KNOW, YOUR FATHER WAS FROM AFRICA, YOUR MOTHER, SHE'S A 13:24:35 WHITE WOMAN FROM KANSAS, I'M NOT SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME 13:24:39 EXPERIENCE, AND I TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT. 13:24:41 YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU SEE, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A 13:24:45 COOK TO THE BRITISH IN KENYA, GREW UP IN A SMALL VILLAGE, AND 13:24:52 ALL HIS LIFE THAT'S ALL HE WAS WAS A COOK AND A HOUSEBOY AND 13:24:56 THAT'S WHAT THEY CALLED HIM EVEN WHEN HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD THEY 13:25:00 CALLED HIM A HOUSEBOY. WOULDN'T CALL HIM BY HIS LAST 13:25:05 NAME. CALLED HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME. 13:25:08 SOUND FAMILIAR? AND HE HAD TO CARRY A PASSBOOK 13:25:14 AROUND, BECAUSE AFRICANS IN THEIR OWN LAND IN THEIR OWN 13:25:17 COUNTRY AT THAT TIME BECAUSE IT WAS A BRITISH COLONY COULD NOT 13:25:22 MOVE ABOUT FREELY. THEY COULD ONLY GO WHERE THEY 13:25:25 WERE TOLD TO G THEY COULD ONLY WORK WHERE THEY WERE TOLD TO 13:25:31 WORK, AND YET SOMETHING HAPPENED BACK HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA, 13:25:37 SOMETHING HAPPENED IN BIRMINGHAM THAT SENT OUT WHAT BOBBY KENNEDY 13:25:41 CALLED RIPPLES OF HOPE ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 13:25:44 SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN A BUNCH OF WOMEN DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO 13:25:49 WALK INSTEAD OF RIDE THE BUS AFTER A LONG DAY OF DOING 13:25:53 SOMEBODY ELSE'S LAUNDRY AND LOOKING AFTER SOMEBODY ELSE'S 13:25:55 CHILDREN WHEN MEN WHO HAD Ph.D.s WERE WORKING AS PORTERS DECIDED 13:26:01 THAT'S ENOUGH AND WE'RE GOING TO STAND UP DESPITE THE RISKS FOR 13:26:04 OUR DIGNITY AND I RESPECT THAT CENTER SHOUT ACROSS OCEANS SO 13:26:10 THAT MY GRANDFATHER BEGAN TO IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR 13:26:14 HIS SON AND HIS SON WHO GREW UP HERDING GOATS IN A SMALL VILLAGE 13:26:19 IN AFRICA COULD SUDDENLY SET HIS SIGHTS A LITTLE HIGHER AND 13:26:24 SUDDENLY BELIEVE THAT MAYBE A BLACK MAN IN THIS WORLD HAD A 13:26:29 CHANCE, AND WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA AND BIRMINGHAM 13:26:33 ALSO STIRRED THE CONSCIENCE OF A NATION AND IT WORRIED FOLKS IN 13:26:38 THE WHITE HOUSE WHO SAID WE'RE BATTLING COMMUNISM, HOW ARE WE 13:26:41 GOING TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD IF 13:26:44 RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JOHN, WE'RE NOT OBSERVING THE 13:26:49 IDEALS THAT ARE SET FORTH IN OUR CONSTITUTION? 13:26:52 WE MIGHT BE ACCUSED OF BEING HYPOCRITES SO THE KENNEDYS 13:26:56 DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO DO AN AIRLIFT. 13:26:59 WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT TO AFRICA AND WE'RE GOING TO START 13:27:02 BRINGING YOUNG AFRICANS OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND BRING THEM 13:27:05 SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN WHAT A WONDERFUL 13:27:09 COUNTRY AMERICA IS AND THIS YOUNG MAN NAMED BARACK OBAMA GOT 13:27:13 ONE OF THOSE TICKETS AND CAME OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND HE MET 13:27:20 THIS WOMAN, WHOSE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER HAD 13:27:25 OWNED SLAVES, BUT SHE HAD A DIFFERENT IDEA. 13:27:29 THERE'S SOME GOOD CRAZINESS GOING ON BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AT 13:27:32 EACH OTHER AND THEY DECIDED, WE KNOW THAT IN THE WORLD AS IT HAS 13:27:36 BEEN IT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET TOGETHER AND HAVE 13:27:39 A CHILD, BUT SOMETHING IS STIRRING ACROSS THE COUNTRY 13:27:42 BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA, BECAUSE SOME 13:27:46 FOLKS ARE WILLING TO MARCH ACROSS THE BRIDGE. 13:27:49 AND SO THEY GOT TOGETHER AND BARACK OBAMA JR. WAS BORN. 13:27:55 SO DON'T TELL ME I DON'T HAVE A CLAIM ON SELMA, ALABAMA. 13:28:00 DON'T TELL ME I'M NOT COMING HOME WHEN I COME TO SELMA, 13:28:03 ALABAMA. I'M HERE BECAUSE SOMEBODY 13:28:06 MARCHED FOR OUR FREEDOM. I'M HERE BECAUSE Y'ALL 13:28:11 SACRIFICED FOR ME. I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF 13:28:19 THIS. I THANK THE MOSES GENERATION. 13:28:27 BUT WE GOT TO REMEMBER NOW THAT JOSHUA STILL HAD A JOB TO DO. 13:28:36 AS GREAT AS MOSES WAS, DESPITE ALL THAT HE DID, LEADING A 13:28:44 PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE, HE DIDN'T CROSS OVER THE RIVER TO SEE THE 13:28:51 PROMISED LAND. GOD TOLD HIM YOUR JOB IS DONE, 13:28:55 YOU'LL SEE IT. YOU'LL BE AT THE MOUNTAINTOP, 13:28:58 AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT I'VE PROMISED, WHAT I PROMISED TO 13:29:03 ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB AND I PROMISED TO YOU, YOU CAN SEE 13:29:07 THAT I WILL FULFILL THAT PROMISE. 13:29:10 BUT YOU WON'T GO THERE. WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE IT TO THE 13:29:14 JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS. 13:29:18 THERE'S STILL SOME BATTLES HA NEED TO BE FOUGHT, SOME RIVERS 13:29:21 THAT NEED TO BE CROSSED. LIKE MOSES, THE TASK WAS PASSED 13:29:27 ON TO THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AS DESERVING, MIGHT NOT 13:29:33 HAVE BEEN AS COURAGEOUS FIND THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF THE RISKS 13:29:37 THAT THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT 13:29:41 GRANDPARENTS HAD TAKEN, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY STILL DON'T 13:29:43 HAVE A BURDEN THAT THEY HAVE TO SHOULDER, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE 13:29:47 SOME RESPONSIBILITIES THE PREVIOUS GENERATION, THE MOSES 13:29:51 GENERATION POINTED THE WAY. THEY TOOK US 90% OF THE WAY 13:29:55 THERE, BUT WE STILL GOT THAT 10% IN ORDER TO CROSS OVER TO THE 13:30:00 OTHER SIDE. AND SO THE QUESTION, I GUESS, 13:30:05 THAT I HAVE TODAY IS WHAT'S CALLED OF US IN THIS JOSHUA 13:30:11 GENERATION? WHAT DO WE DO IN ORDER TO 13:30:13 FULFILL THAT LEGACY TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS AND THE DEBT 13:30:17 THAT WE OWE TO THOSE WHO ALLOWED US TO BE HERE TODAY? 13:30:22 NOW, I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVER FULLY REPAY THAT DEBT. 13:30:26 I THINK THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE LOOKING BACK, BUT THERE 13:30:33 ARE AT LEAST A FEW SUGGESTIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE IN TERMS OF 13:30:37 HOW WE MIGHT FULFILL THAT ENORMOUS LEGACY. 13:30:43 THE FIRST IS TO RECOGNIZE OUR HISTORY. 13:30:48 JOHN LEWIS TALKED ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY, BUT I WORRY 13:30:52 SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WE COME DOWN TO 13:30:57 MARCH EVERY YEAR ONCE A YEAR. WE OCCASIONALLY CELEBRATE THE 13:31:05 VARIOUS EVENTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 13:31:08 WE CELEBRATE DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY, BUT IT STRIKES ME THAT 13:31:12 UNDERSTANDING OUR HISTORY AND KNOWING WHAT IT MEANS IS AN 13:31:15 EVERYDAY ACTIVITY. YOU NOTICE WHEN MOSES SPOKE TO 13:31:23 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, TELLING THEM THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO BE 13:31:30 GOING WITH THEM, HE LAID OUT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND 13:31:34 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE SAID, BISHOP, WAS HE SAID, "KNOW YOUR 13:31:39 PAST. KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM. 13:31:41 KNOW HOW YOU WERE LED OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:31:45 KNOW HOW PHARAOH REFUSED TO LET YOU GO AND THAT GOD CAME DOWN 13:31:49 AND VISITED ALL MANNER OF PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE UNTIL FINALLY A 13:31:54 PEOPLE WERE FREED." MOSES TOLD THE JOSHUA 13:32:00 GENERATION, DON'T FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM, AND I WORRY 13:32:04 SOMETIMES THAT THE JOSHUA GENERATION IN ITS SUCCESS 13:32:08 FORGETS WHERE IT CAME FROM. THINKS IT DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE 13:32:12 AS MANY SACRIFICES, THINKS THAT THE VERY HEIGHT OF AMBITION IS 13:32:18 TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU CAN, TO DRIVE THE BIGGEST CAR 13:32:23 AND HAVE THE BIGGEST HOUSE AND WEAR A ROLEX WATCH AND GET YOUR 13:32:28 OWN PRIVATE JET, GET SOME OF THAT OPRAH MONEY, AND I THINK 13:32:37 THAT'S A GOOD THING. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH 13:32:40 MAKING MONEY BUT IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THEN YOU KNOW THAT 13:32:44 THERE'S A CERTAIN POVERTY OF AMBITION INVOLVED IN SIMPLY 13:32:50 STRIVING JUST FOR MONEY, MATERIALISM ALONE WILL NOT 13:32:58 FULFILL THE POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 13:33:01 YOU HAVE TO FILL THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 13:33:02 YOU HAVE TO FILL IT WITH THE GOLAN RULE. 13:33:05 YOU GOT TO FILL IT WITH THINKING ABOUT OTHERS, AND IF WE KNOW OUR 13:33:10 HISTORY, THEN WE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE HIGHEST MARK OF 13:33:16 SERVICE. SECOND THING THAT THE JOSHUA 13:33:19 GENERATION NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE PRINCIPLES OF 13:33:23 EQUALITY THAT WERE SET FORTH AND WERE BATTLED FOR HAVE TO BE 13:33:28 FOUGHT EACH AND EVERY DAY, IT IS NOT A ONE-TIME THING. 13:33:34 I WAS REMARKING AT THE UNITY BREAKFAST ON THE FACT THAT THE 13:33:40 SINGLE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONCERN THAT THIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 13:33:46 UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD WITH RESPECT TO 13:33:50 DISCRIMINATION HAS TO DO WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 13:33:53 THAT THEY HAVE BASICALLY SPENT ALL THEIR TIME WORRYING ABOUT 13:33:58 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE GIVEN A 13:34:01 LITTLE BREAK TO YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANICS 13:34:06 TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE TOO. 13:34:08 I HAD A SCHOOL IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THAT IT SET UP A 13:34:11 PROGRAM FOR Ph.D.s IN MATH AND SCIENCE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, 13:34:16 AND THE REASON THEY HAD SET IT UP IS BECAUSE WE ONLY HAD LESS 13:34:21 THAN 1% OF THE Ph.D.s, DOCTOR, IN SCIENCE AND MATH GO TO 13:34:27 AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE COMPETING IN A 13:34:30 GLOBAL ECONOMY -- WHEN WE'RE NOT JUST COMPETING AGAINST FOLKS IN 13:34:36 NORTH CAROLINA OR FLORIDA BUT IN CHINA AND INDIA AND WE NEED MATH 13:34:40 AND SCIENCE MAJORS, THIS UNIVERSITY THOUGHT THAT THIS 13:34:43 MIGHT BE A NICE THING TO DO, AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WROTE 13:34:46 THEM A LETTER SAYING WE ARE GOING TO THREATEN TO SUE YOU FOR 13:34:50 REVERSE DISCRIMINATION UNLESS YOU CEASE THIS PROGRAM, AND IT 13:34:56 REMINDS US THAT WE STILL GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO, AND THAT THE 13:35:02 BASIC ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS, THE 13:35:07 INJUSTICE THAT STILL EXISTS WITHIN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 13:35:11 SYSTEM, THE DISPARITY IN TERMS OF HOW PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN 13:35:17 THIS COUNTRY CONTINUES. IT HAS GOTTEN BETTER, AND WE 13:35:21 SHOULD NEVER DENY THAT IT'S GOTTEN BETTER, BUT WE SHOULDN'T 13:35:25 FORGET THAT BETTER IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, THAT UNTIL WE'VE GOT 13:35:30 ABSOLUTE EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY IN TERMS OF PEOPLE BEING 13:35:33 TREATED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR COLOR OR THEIR GENDER THAT THAT 13:35:37 IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON AND THE 13:35:42 JOSHUA GENERATION HAS A SIGNIFICANT TASK IN MAKING THAT 13:35:45 HAPPEN. THIRD THING, WE'VE GOT TO 13:35:51 RECOGNIZE THAT WE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, BUT WE'VE STILL 13:35:55 GOT A LOT OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH. 13:35:59 WE'VE GOT 46 -- 46 MILLION PEOPLE UNINSURED IN THIS COUNTRY 13:36:06 DESPITE SPENDING MORE MONEY ON HEALTH CARE THAN ANY NATION ON 13:36:08 EARTH. MAKES NO SENSE. 13:36:13 AS CONSEQUENCE WE'VE GOT WHAT'S KNOWN AS A HEALTH CARE DISPARITY 13:36:19 IN THIS NATION BECAUSE MANY OF THE UNINSURED ARE 13:36:23 AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR LATINO. LIFE EXPECTANCY IS LOWER, ALMOST 13:36:27 EVERY DISEASE IS HIGHER WITHIN MINORITY COMMUNITIES. 13:36:32 THE HEALTH CARE GAME. BLACKS ARE LESS LIKELY IN THEIR 13:36:35 SCHOOLS TO HAVE ADEQUATE FUNDING. 13:36:39 WE HAVE LESS QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:43 WE HAVE FEWER TEXTBOOKS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:47 WE GOT IN SOME SCHOOLS RATS OUTNUMBERING COMPUTERS. 13:36:52 THAT'S CALLED THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:36:55 YOU GOT A HEALTH CARE GAP. YOU'VE GOT AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:37:02 YOU'VE GOT KATRINA STILL UNDONE. WENT DUNN TO NEW ORLEANS THREE 13:37:11 WEEKS AGO. STILL LOOKS BOMBED OUT. 13:37:13 STILL NOT REBUILT. WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED, THE FEDERAL 13:37:19 GOVERNMENT HAS A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF GRANTS TO HELP REBUILD. 13:37:23 THEY WAIVED ANY REQUIREMENT THAT MANHATTAN WOULD HAVE TO PAY 10% 13:37:27 OF THE COST OF REBUILDING. WHEN HURRICANE FLORIDA -- 13:37:32 HURRICANE ANDREWS HAPPENED IN FLORIDA, 10% REQUIREMENT, THEY 13:37:36 WAIVED IT BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT SOME DISASTERS 13:37:39 ARE SO DEVASTATING THAT WE CAN'T EXPECT A COMMUNITY TO REBUILD. 13:37:46 NEW ORLEANS, THE LARGEST NATURAL CATASTROPHE IN OUR HISTORY, THE 13:37:52 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS, WHERE IS YOUR 10%? 13:37:58 THERE'S AN EMPATHY GAP. THERE'S A GAP IN TERMS OF 13:38:04 SYMPATHIZING FOR THOSE FOLKS IN NEW ORLEANS AS BAD AS 13:38:07 SYMPATHIZING WITH FOLKS ELSEWHERE. 13:38:09 IT'S NOT A GAP THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FELT BECAUSE WE SAW HOW 13:38:13 THEY RESPONDED. BUT SOMEHOW OUR GOVERNMENT 13:38:17 DIDN'T RESPOND WITH THAT SAME SENSE OF COMPASSION AND THAT 13:38:21 SAME SENSE OF KINDNESS. AND HERE'S THE WORST PART, THE 13:38:27 TRAGEDY IN NEW ORLEANS HAPPENED WELL BEFORE THE HURRICANE 13:38:32 STRUCK. BECAUSE MANY OF THOSE 13:38:34 COMMUNITIES THERE WERE SO MANY YOUNG MEN IN PRISON, SO MANY 13:38:38 KIDS DROPPING OUT, SO LITTLE HOPE, A HOPE GAP, A HOPE GAP 13:38:42 THAT STILL PERVADES TOO MANY COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE 13:38:45 COUNTRY AND RIGHT HERE IN ALABAMA. 13:38:49 SO THE QUESTION IS THEN, WHAT ARE WE THE JOSHUA GENERATION 13:38:53 DOING TO CLOSE THOSE GAPS? ARE WE DOING EVERY SINGLE THING 13:38:58 THAT WE CAN DO IN CONGRESS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT EARLY 13:39:02 EDUCATION IS ADEQUATELY FUNDED AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE 13:39:06 RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE SO IF SOMEBODY WORKS EACH AND EVERY 13:39:10 DAY THEY CAN HAVE SOME DIGNITY AND RESPECT? 13:39:12 ARE WE ENSURING IF SOMEBODY LOSES A JOB THAT THEY'RE GETTING 13:39:16 RETRAINED AND THAT IF THEY'VE LOST THEIR HEALTH CARE AND THEIR 13:39:21 PENSION THAT SOMEBODY IS THERE TO HELP THEM GET BACK ON THEIR 13:39:24 FEET? ARE WE MAKING SURE WE'RE GIVING 13:39:25 A SECOND CHANCE TO THOSE WHO HAVE STRAYED AND GONE TO PRISON 13:39:29 BUT WANT TO START A NEW LIFE? GOVERNMENT ALONE CAN'T SOLVE ALL 13:39:37 THOSE PROBLEMS, BUT GOVERNMENT CAN HELP, AND IT'S THE 13:39:41 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE 13:39:48 A GOVERNMENT AS RESPONSIBLE AS THE NEED EXISTS ALL ACROSS 13:39:52 AMERICA BUT THAT BRINGS ME TO ONE OTHER POINT THOUGH, JOSHUA 13:39:56 GENERATION, AND THAT IS THIS, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ENOUGH 13:40:01 JUST TO ASK WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR US, IT'S IMPORTANT 13:40:05 FOR US TO ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OURSELVES. 13:40:10 YET ONE OF THE SIGNATURE ASPECTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS 13:40:15 THE DEGREE OF DISCIPLINE AND FORTITUDE THAT WAS INSTILLED IN 13:40:21 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED. IMAGINE YOUNG PEOPLE, 16, 17, 13:40:29 20, 21 BACK STRAIGHT, EYES CLEAR, SUIT AND TIE SITTING DOWN 13:40:37 AT A LUNCH COUNTER KNOW BE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SPILL MILK 13:40:40 ON YOU BUT YOU HAVE THE DISCIPLINE TO UNDERSTAND THAT 13:40:43 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RETALIATE BECAUSE IN SHOWING THE WORLD HOW 13:40:48 DISCIPLINED WE WERE AS A PEOPLE, WE WERE ABLE TO WIN OVER THE 13:40:53 CONSCIENCE OF A NATION. I CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN THAT WE 13:41:00 HAVE INSTILLED THAT SAME SENSE OF MORAL CLARITY AND PURPOSE IN 13:41:05 THIS GENERATION. BISHOP, SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE 13:41:08 WE'VE LOST IT A LITTLE BIT. YOU KNOW, I'M FIGHTING TO MAKE 13:41:14 SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE ADEQUATELY FUNDED. 13:41:16 ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE HAVE INEQUITIES IN HOW SCHOOLS ARE 13:41:20 FUNDED BECAUSE IT'S RELIED ON PROPERTY TAXES AND PEOPLE WHO 13:41:23 HAPPEN TO BE BORN IN WEALTHY DISTRICTS, SOMEHOW THEY GET 13:41:28 BETTER SCHOOLS THAN FOLKS WHO ARE BORN IN POOR DISTRICTS AND 13:41:32 THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. 13:41:34 THAT'S NOT THE AMERICAN WAY, BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, EVEN AS I FIGHT 13:41:38 ON BEHALF OF MORE EDUCATION FUNDING, MORE EQUITY, I HAVE TO 13:41:42 ALSO SAY THAT IF PARENTS DON'T TURN OFF THE TELEVISION SET WHEN 13:41:47 THE CHILD COMES HOME FROM SCHOOL, AND MAKE SURE THEY SIT 13:41:52 DOWN AND DO THEIR HOMEWORK AND GO TALK TO THE TEACHERS AND FIND 13:41:56 OUT HOW THEY'RE DOING AND IF WE DON'T START INSTILLING A SENSE 13:41:59 IN OUR YOUNG CHILDREN, THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED 13:42:04 ABOUT IN EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, I DON'T KNOW WHO 13:42:07 CAUGHT THEM THAT READING AND WRITING AND CONJUGATING YOUR 13:42:11 VERBS WAS ACTING WHITE, WE'VE GOT TO GET OVER THAT MENTALITY. 13:42:14 WE'VE GOT TO DO FOR OURSEOURSEL. THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE MOSES 13:42:19 GENERATION TEACHES US, NOT SAYING TO OURSELVES WE CAN'T DO 13:42:23 SOMETHING BUT TELLING OURSELVES THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE. 13:42:27 WE CAN DO THAT. WE'VE GOT POWER IN OUR HANDS. 13:42:36 FOLKS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR GOVERNMENT. 13:42:39 I UNDERSTAND THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE COMPLAINING ABOUT. 13:42:45 I'M IN WASHINGTON. I SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 13:42:48 I SEE THOSE POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES HAVE SNUCK BACK 13:42:52 IN THERE. THAT THEY'RE WRITING THE ENERGY 13:42:55 BILLS AND THE DRUG LAWS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT. 13:42:58 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, I ALSO KNOW THAT IF COUSIN POOKIE WOULD 13:43:05 VOTE, IF UNCLE JETHRO WOULD GET OFF THE COUCH AND STOP WATCHING 13:43:12 "SPORTSCENTER" AND GO REGISTER SOME FOLKS AND GO TO THE POLLS, 13:43:15 WE MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF POLITICS. 13:43:18 THAT'S WHAT THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US. 13:43:23 KICK OFF YOUR BEDROOM SLIPPERS, PUT ON YOUR MARCHING SHOES, GO 13:43:28 DO SOME POLITICS, CHANGE THIS COUNTRY. 13:43:30 THAT'S WHAT THEY TEACH US. WE'VE GOT TOO MANY CHILDREN IN 13:43:39 POVERTY IN THIS COUNTRY, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ASHAMED. 13:43:43 BUT DON'T TELL ME EARTH DOESN'T HAVE A LITTLE TO DO WITH THE 13:43:46 FACT THAT WE GOT TOO MANY DADDIES NOT ACTING LIKE DADDIES. 13:43:53 I THINK THAT -- THINK THAT FATHERHOOD ENDS AT CONCEPTION, I 13:43:59 KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE MY FATHER WASN'T AROUND 13:44:02 WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND I STRUGGLED. 13:44:07 THOSE OF YOU WHO READ MY BOOK KNOW. 13:44:09 I WENT THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT TIMES. 13:44:11 I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A STRONG MALE FIGURE 13:44:15 IN THE HOUSE, WHICH IS WHY THE HARDEST THING ABOUT ME BEING IN 13:44:19 POLITICS SOMETIMES IS NOT BEING HOME AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE AND I'M 13:44:22 JUST BLESSED THAT I'VE GOT SUCH A WONDERFUL WIFE AT HOME TO HOLD 13:44:26 THINGS TOGETHER, BUT DON'T TELL ME THAT WE CAN'T DO BETTER BY 13:44:36 OUR CHILDREN, THAT WE CAN'T TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE 13:44:40 WE'RE INSTILLING IN THEM THE VALUES AND THE IDEAS THAT THE 13:44:43 MOSES GENERATION TAUGHT US ABOUT SACRIFICE AND DIGNITY AND 13:44:47 HONESTY AND HARD WORK AND DISCIPLINE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. 13:44:51 THAT COMES FROM US. WE'VE GOT TO TRANSMIT THAT TO 13:44:56 THE NEXT GENERATION AND I GUESS THE POINT THAT I'M MAKE 13:44:58 SOMETHING THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WASN'T JUST A FIGHT 13:45:03 AGAINST THE OPPRESSOR, IT WAS ALSO A FIGHT AGAINST THE 13:45:06 OPPRESSOR IN EACH OF US. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S EASY TO 13:45:12 JUST POINT AT SOMEBODY ELSE AND SAY, IT'S THERE THEIR FAULT BUT 13:45:17 OPPRESSION HAS A WAY OF CREEPING INTO YOU, REVEREND. 13:45:19 IT HAS A WAY OF STUNTING YOURSELF. 13:45:23 YOU START TELLING YOURSELF, BISHOP, I CAN'T DO SOMETHING. 13:45:27 I CAN'T READ, I CAN'T -- I CAN'T GO TO COLLEGE. 13:45:30 I CAN'T START A BUSINESS. I CAN'T RUN FOR CONGRESS. 13:45:33 I CAN'T RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, PEOPLE START TELLING YOU CAN'T 13:45:38 DO SOMETHING, AFTER A WHILE, YOU TART BELIEVING IT. 13:45:44 AND PART OF WHAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS ABOUT WAS 13:45:47 RECOGNIZING THAT WE HAVE TO TRANSFORM OURSELVES IN ORDER TO 13:45:50 TRANSFORM THE WORLD. MAHATMA GANDHI, THE GREAT HERO 13:45:57 OF DR. KING AND THE PERSON WHO HELPED CREATE THE NONVIOLENT 13:46:03 MOVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD, HE ONCE SAID THAT "YOU CAN'T CHANGE 13:46:07 THE WORLD IF YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED. 13:46:10 IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, THE CHANGE HAS TO HAPPEN WITH 13:46:13 YOU FIRST." AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE 13:46:19 GREATEST AND MOST HONORABLE OF GENERATIONS HAS TAUGHT US. 13:46:26 BUT THE FINAL THING THAT I THINK THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US 13:46:29 IS TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE DO WHAT WE DO BECAUSE GOD IS 13:46:35 WITH US. YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES WAS FIRST 13:46:41 CALLED TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT OF THE PROMISED LAND, HE SAID, "I DON'T 13:46:45 THINK I CAN DO IT, LORD. I DON'T SPEAK LIKE REVEREND 13:46:49 LOWERY. I DON'T -- I DON'T FEEL BRAVE 13:46:53 AND COURAGEOUS" AND THE LORD SAID "I WILL BE WITH YOU. 13:46:59 THROW DOWN THAT ROD, PICK IT BACK UP. 13:47:03 I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO." 13:47:06 AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:47:14 JOSHUA SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M SCARED. 13:47:17 I'M NOT SURE THAT I AM UP TO THE CHALLENGE, AND THE LORD SAID TO 13:47:25 HIM, EVERY PLACE THAT THE SOUL OF YOUR FOOT WILL TREAD UPON, I 13:47:31 HAVE GIVEN YOU. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I 13:47:36 AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:47:43 THAT'S A PRAYER FOR A JOURNEY, A PRAYER THAT KEPT A WOMAN IN HER 13:47:47 SEAT WHEN THE BUS DRIVER TOLD HER TO GET UP, A PRAYER THAT LED 13:47:50 NINE CHILDREN THROUGH THE DOORS OF A LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL, A 13:47:53 PRAYER THAT CARRIED OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER A BRIDGE RIGHT 13:47:57 HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE WHEN 13:48:02 YOU SEE ROW AND ROW OF STATE TROOPER FACING YOU, YOU SEE THE 13:48:07 HORSES AND THE TEAR GAS, HOW ELSE CAN YOU WALK TOWARDS THEM 13:48:10 UNARMED AND UNAFRAID? WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU AND 13:48:13 START BEATING YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR NEIGHBORS HOW ELSE CAN YOU 13:48:17 SIMPLY KNEEL DOWN, BOW YOUR HEAD AND ASK THE LORD FOR SALVATION 13:48:20 WHEN YOU SEE HEADS GASHED OPEN AND EYES BURNING AND LITTLE 13:48:24 CHILDREN LYING HURT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WHEN YOU'RE JOHN 13:48:28 LEWIS AND YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE ON 13:48:31 SUNDAY HOW DO YOU WAKE UP ON MONDAY AND KEEP ON MARCHING? 13:48:34 BE STRONG, AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. 13:48:41 WE'VE COME A LONG WAY IN THIS JOURNEY, BUT WE STILL HAVE A 13:48:46 LONG WAY TO TRAVEL. WE TRAVEL BECAUSE GOD WAS WITH 13:48:52 US. IT'S NOT HOW FAR WE'VE COME THIS 13:48:55 FAR ON OUR JOURNEY. THAT BRIDGE OUTSIDE WAS CROSSED 13:48:58 BY BLACKS AND WHITES, NORTHERNERS AND SOUTHERNERS, 13:49:01 TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN, SHOPKEEPERS AND JANITORS, A 13:49:04 BELOVED COMMUNITY OF GOD'S CHILDREN WILLING TO TAKE THOSE 13:49:07 STEPS TOGETHER. BUT IT WAS LEFT TO THE JOSHUAS 13:49:12 TO FINISH THE JOURNEY MOSES HAD BEGUN AND TODAY WE'RE CALLED TO 13:49:15 BE THE JOSHUAS OF OUR TIME, TO BE THE GENERATION THAT FINDS OUR 13:49:19 WAY ACROSS THIS RIVER, THERE WILL BE DAYS WHEN THE WATER 13:49:23 SEEMS WIDE AND THE JOURNEY TOO FAR, BUT IN THOSE MOMENTS WE 13:49:27 MUST REMEMBER THAT THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, THERE HAS BEEN A 13:49:31 RUNNING THREAD OF IDEALS THAT HAVE GUIDED OUR TRAVELS AND 13:49:35 PUSHED US FORWARD EVEN WHEN THEY'RE JUST BEYOND OUR REACH, 13:49:40 LIBERTY IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY, EQUALITY IN THE FACE OF BITTER 13:49:44 INJUSTICE, OPPORTUNITY WHERE THERE WAS NONE AND HOPE OVER THE 13:49:46 MOST CRUSHING DE SPARE, THOSE IDEALS, THOSE VALUES, THEY 13:49:50 BECKON US STILL, AND WHEN WE HAVE OUR DOUBTS AND OUR FEARS, 13:49:53 JUST LIKE JOSHUA DID, WHEN THE ROAD LOOKS TOO LONG AND IT SEEMS 13:49:57 LIKE WE MAY LOSE OUR WAY, REMEMBER WHAT THESE PEOPLE DID 13:50:01 ON THAT BRIDGE, KEEPING YOUR H 13:50:07 HEART, THE PRAYER OF THAT JOURNEY, THE PRAYER THAT GOD 13:50:09 GAVE TO JOSHUA, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF 13:50:16 INJUSTICE, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF PREJUDICE 13:50:21 AND HATRED, IN THE FACE OF JOBLESSNESS AND HELPLESSNESS AND 13:50:28 HOPELESSNESS, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:50:30 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED TODAY IN THE FACE 13:50:34 OF OUR DOUBTS AND FEARS, IN THE FACE OF SKEPTICISM, IN THE FACE 13:50:39 OF CYNICISM, IN THE FACE OF A MIGHTY RIVER, BE STRONG AND HAVE 13:50:44 COURAGE AND LET US CROSS OVER THAT PROMISED LAND TOGETHER. 13:50:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY. GOD BLESS YOU. END SENATOR BARACK OBAMA

Ravenel Bridge, Charleston, South Carolina.

[VOTE 2008 / OBAMA AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA] [SELMA, ALA USA] FTG OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-ILL) AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA 12:28:32 Obama standing 12:29:01 Obama sits back down 12:41:55 Obama receiving a standing ovation 12:42:08 Obama smiling and laughing 12:46:07 Obama standing behind preacher 12:46:21 Obama clapping and sitting back down 12:52:41 Obama clapping 13:16:19 I want to start by saying I want to thank him for his support . 13:17:14 Somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage . 13:17:39 To all the distinguished guests and clergy. I'm not sure I'm going to thank the . because he stole the show . nervous about following so many great clergy men .. 13:18:31 Thanks you very much for letting me speak . after I announced I was running for president of the united states . drawing from script 13:19:24 I acknowledge there is a certain amount of presumptuousness with this . his son is now preacher at my church . I got a letter giving me encouragement telling me how proud he was and reminded me to stay true to my ideals . tell them to look at the story of Joshua . 13:20:37 So I just want to talk a little bit about . we are in the presence today of a lot of Moses' . people who battle on behalf of all of America . endured taunts and torments . gave full measure of their devotion . who said that some are atop and some are at the bottom and that's how it will always be . 13:22:53 They wondered through a desert and knowing that god was with them . and it's because they marched that the next generation has not been as bloodied . it's because they marched that I stand here today . 13:23:54 Because not only is my career the result of the men and women we honor here today, my very existence might not have happened . you don't understand, my grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya . 13:25:24 Yet something happened here in Selma Alabama . 13:26:25 Worried folks in the white house, we're fighting communism . the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift . this young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets . 13:27:46 Don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma Alabama . I'm here because ya'll sacrificed or me . I stand on your shoulders . 13:32:36 Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence, you have to fill that . second thing is the principals of equality is not a one sided thing . 13:33:43 They have basically spent all their time worrying about affirmative action . reminds us we still have a lot work to do . we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough . that is something that we have got to continue to work on 13:35:40 Third thing, we fought for civil rights, but we still have a lot of economic rights to work for . we've got what's know as a health care disparity . life expectancy is lower in the minorities . we have fewer teachers and text books in the schools . health care gap and achievement gap 13:37:00 New Orleans still looks bombed out . when 9-11 happened, they waived any requirement . because they understood . federal government says where's your 10%. There's an empathy gap . 13:38:02 Not a gap the American people felt . the government was the problem . because many of those communities . hope gap . 13:38:40 The question is, what are we the Joshua generation doing to close the gap .. Are we ensuring . and giving a second chance 13:39:29 Government can help . make sure the government is responsive . it's enough to ask with the government can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves . 13:41:24 I tell you what, even as I fight for more education funding . if parents don't turn off the television set . it we don't instill a sense in our young children . we've got to get over that mentality . 13:42:14 Telling ourselves we can achieve . we can do that. We can achieve. 13:42:37 I'm in Washington, I see what's going on . I also know that cousin poky wasn't voting . kick off your marching slippers, put on your marching shoes . 13:43:44 They think that fatherhood ends at conception . I went through some difficult times . 13:44:53 It wasn't just a fight against the oppressor, it was a fight against the oppressor in all of us . it has a way of stunting yourself . part of what the civil rights movement was realizing you have to change more then just ourselves . 13:46:04 That is something that the greatest and the most honorable of generations has taught us . we do what we do because God is with us . 13:46:56 The same thing happened with the Joshua generation . not sure I can do this . be strong and have courage . that's a prayer for a journey . 13:48:31 We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to go . that bridge was crossed . and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our generation .. Liberty in the face of injustice . 13:49:56 Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey . be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice . hopelessness 13:50:29 In the face of a mighty river, be strong and have courage and lets cross that bridge together, thank you 13:50:55 Obama embracing various members of the clergy on stage 13:51:37 Obama sits back down 13:56:42 Obama head down in prayer and song SEGMENT [1] 2007/03/04 ************************************************ SENATOR BARACK OBAMA SPEAKING AT THE BROWN CHAPEL IN SELMA, ALABAMA 13:16:08 SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: I MUST BEGIN BECAUSE AT THE 13:16:16 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS MORNING, I WAS SAVING HIM FOR LAST AND THE 13:16:20 LIST OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WAS SO LONG, I LEFT HIM OUT AFTER THAT 13:16:25 INTRODUCTION, SO I'M GOING TO START BY SAYING HOW MUCH I 13:16:29 APPRECIATE THE FRIENDSHIP AND THE SUPPORT AND THE OUTSTANDING 13:16:33 WORK THAT HE DOES EACH AND EVERY DAY, NOT JUST IN CAPITOL HILL 13:16:39 BUT ALSO BACK HERE IN THE DISTRICT, PLEASE GIVE A WARM 13:16:42 ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN ARTUR DAVIS. 13:16:45 [ APPLAUSE ] IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE, 13:16:58 REVEREND JACKSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TO THE FAMILY OF BROWN 13:17:04 AM & E AND BISHOP KIRKLAND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL 13:17:09 MESSAGE AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE OF THE 13:17:16 GREAT HEROS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND AMERICAN LIFE, SOMEBODY WHO 13:17:29 CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF DECENCY AND COURAGE, SOMEBODY WHO I HAVE 13:17:35 ADMIRED ALL MY LIFE AND WERE IT NOT FOR HIM I'M NOT SURE I WOULD 13:17:41 BE HERE TODAY, CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, I'M THANKFUL TO HIM. 13:17:44 [ APPLAUSE ] TO ALL THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS 13:17:51 AND CLERGY, I'M NOT SURE I'M GOING TO THANK REVEREND LOWERY 13:17:56 BECAUSE HE STOLE THE SHOW. [ LAUGHTER ] 13:18:06 I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER I KNOW WE'VE GOT C.T. VIVIAN AND ALL 13:18:11 THIS. WHEN YOU HAVE TO SPEAK IN FRONT 13:18:12 OF SOMEBODY WHO MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID WAS THE GREATEST 13:18:15 PREACHER HE EVER HEARD THEN YOU GOT SOME PROBLEMS, AND I'M A 13:18:19 LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT FOLLOWING SO MANY GREAT PREACHERS. 13:18:28 BUT I AM HOPING THAT THE SPIRIT MOVES ME. 13:18:31 TO ALL MY CONGRESSIONAL COLLEAGUES AND OTHER ELECTED 13:18:34 OFFICIALS WERE HERE, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO HAVE GIVEN ME SUCH A 13:18:38 WARM WELCOME, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TO 13:18:42 YOU HERE TODAY. YOU KNOW, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, 13:18:50 AFTER I HAD ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF 13:18:55 THE UNITED STATES, I STOOD IN FRONT OF THE OLD STATE CAPITOL 13:18:59 IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DELIVERED HIS 13:19:05 SPEECH DECLARING DASH DRAWING FROM SCRIPTURE THAT A HOUSE 13:19:09 DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF COULD NOT STAND, AND I STOOD AND I 13:19:13 ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY, AND THERE WERE A 13:19:17 LOT OF COMMENTATORS AS THEY ARE PRONE TO DO WHO QUESTIONED THE 13:19:24 AUDACITY OF A YOUNG MAN LIKE MYSELF, HADN'T BEEN IN 13:19:29 WASHINGTON TOO LONG AND I ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE'S A 13:19:34 CERTAIN PRESUMPTUOUSNESS ABOUT THIS, BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM A 13:19:40 FRIEND OF SOME OF YOURS NAMED REVEREND OTIS MALSH JR. IN 13:19:49 CLEVELAND, ILLINOIS, AND HIS SON, OTIS MOSS III IS NOW 13:19:54 PASTORING AT MY CHURCH, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST AND I 13:19:59 MUST SEND GREETINGS FROM OUR SENIOR PASTOR DR. INJURE MYA A. 13:20:05 WRIGHT JR., BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM REVEREND OTIS MOSS JR. 13:20:10 GIVING ME ENCOURAGEMENT AND SAYING HOW PROUD HE WAS THAT I 13:20:15 HAD ANNOUNCED, AND ENCOURAGING ME TO STAY TRUE TO MY IDEALS AND 13:20:23 MY VALUES AND NOT TO BE FEARFUL AND HE SAID IF THERE'S SOME 13:20:29 FOLKS OUT THERE WHO ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT YOU 13:20:34 SHOULD RUN, JUST TELL THEM TO LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOSHUA. 13:20:43 BECAUSE YOU'RE PART OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:20:47 AND SO I JUST WANT TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT MOSES AND AARON AND 13:20:53 JOSHUA. BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE 13:21:00 TODAY OF A LOT OF MOSESS. WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE TODAY OF 13:21:08 GIANTS WHOSE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON, PEOPLE WHO BATTLED ON 13:21:17 BEHALF, NOT JUST OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, BUT ON BEHALF 13:21:21 OF ALL OF AMERICA, THAT BATTLED FOR AMERICA'S SOUL, THAT SHED 13:21:31 BLOOD, THAT ENDURED TAUNTS AND TORMENT AND IN SOME CASES GAVE 13:21:37 THE FULL MEASURE OF THEIR DEVOTION. 13:21:41 LIKE MOSES, THEY CHALLENGED FARROW, THE PRINCES AND POWERS, 13:21:51 WHO SAID THAT SOME ARE ATOP AND OTHERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM, AND 13:21:57 THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE. 13:22:00 THERE WERE PEOPLE LIKE ANNA COOPER AND MARIE FOSTER AND 13:22:05 JIMMY LEE JACKSON AND MAURICE OLETT, C.T. VIVIAN, REVEREND 13:22:13 LOWERY, JOHN LEWIS, WHO SAID WE CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, 13:22:19 THAT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE FOR US TOO. 13:22:23 THAT GOD HAS MADE US IN HIS IMAGE, AND THAT WE REJECT THE 13:22:28 NOTION THAT WE WILL FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES BE CONFINED TO A 13:22:33 STATION OF INFERIORITY, THAT WE CAN ASPIRE TO THE HIGHEST OF 13:22:39 HEIGHTS THAT OUR TALENTS CAN BE EXPRESSED TO THEIR FULLEST. 13:22:45 AND SO BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY ENDURED, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY 13:22:50 MARCHED, THEY LED A PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:22:56 THEY TOOK THEM ACROSS A SEA THAT FOLKS THOUGHT COULD NOT BE 13:23:02 PARTED. THEY WANDERED THROUGH A DESERT, 13:23:06 BUT ALWAYS KNOWING THAT GOD WAS WITH THEM AND THAT IF THEY 13:23:11 MAINTAINED THAT TRUST IN GOD, THAT THEY WOULD BE ALL RIGHT. 13:23:17 AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT THE NEXT GENERATION HASN'T 13:23:25 BEEN BLOODED SO MUCH. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT 13:23:28 WE ELECTED COUNCILMEN AND CONGRESSMEN. 13:23:32 IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT WE HAVE ARTUR DAVIS AND KEITH 13:23:37 ELLISON. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I 13:23:39 GOT THE KIND OF EDUCATION I GOT, THAT I GOT A LAW DEGREE AND A 13:23:45 SEAT IN THE ILLINOIS SENATE AND ULTIMATELY IN THE UNITED STATES 13:23:48 SENATE IS BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU HERE 13:23:50 TODAY. AND I WAS MENTIONING AT THE 13:24:02 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS IMPORTANT, MY DEBT IS EVEN GREATER THAN 13:24:05 THAT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS MY CAREER THE RESULT OF THE WORK OF 13:24:13 THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WE HONOR HERE TODAY, MY VERY EXISTENCE 13:24:21 MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SOME OF THE 13:24:24 FOLKS HERE TODAY. I MENTIONED AT THE UNITY 13:24:28 BREAKFAST THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING, WELL, YOU 13:24:31 KNOW, YOUR FATHER WAS FROM AFRICA, YOUR MOTHER, SHE'S A 13:24:35 WHITE WOMAN FROM KANSAS, I'M NOT SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME 13:24:39 EXPERIENCE, AND I TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT. 13:24:41 YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU SEE, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A 13:24:45 COOK TO THE BRITISH IN KENYA, GREW UP IN A SMALL VILLAGE, AND 13:24:52 ALL HIS LIFE THAT'S ALL HE WAS WAS A COOK AND A HOUSEBOY AND 13:24:56 THAT'S WHAT THEY CALLED HIM EVEN WHEN HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD THEY 13:25:00 CALLED HIM A HOUSEBOY. WOULDN'T CALL HIM BY HIS LAST 13:25:05 NAME. CALLED HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME. 13:25:08 SOUND FAMILIAR? AND HE HAD TO CARRY A PASSBOOK 13:25:14 AROUND, BECAUSE AFRICANS IN THEIR OWN LAND IN THEIR OWN 13:25:17 COUNTRY AT THAT TIME BECAUSE IT WAS A BRITISH COLONY COULD NOT 13:25:22 MOVE ABOUT FREELY. THEY COULD ONLY GO WHERE THEY 13:25:25 WERE TOLD TO G THEY COULD ONLY WORK WHERE THEY WERE TOLD TO 13:25:31 WORK, AND YET SOMETHING HAPPENED BACK HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA, 13:25:37 SOMETHING HAPPENED IN BIRMINGHAM THAT SENT OUT WHAT BOBBY KENNEDY 13:25:41 CALLED RIPPLES OF HOPE ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 13:25:44 SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN A BUNCH OF WOMEN DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO 13:25:49 WALK INSTEAD OF RIDE THE BUS AFTER A LONG DAY OF DOING 13:25:53 SOMEBODY ELSE'S LAUNDRY AND LOOKING AFTER SOMEBODY ELSE'S 13:25:55 CHILDREN WHEN MEN WHO HAD Ph.D.s WERE WORKING AS PORTERS DECIDED 13:26:01 THAT'S ENOUGH AND WE'RE GOING TO STAND UP DESPITE THE RISKS FOR 13:26:04 OUR DIGNITY AND I RESPECT THAT CENTER SHOUT ACROSS OCEANS SO 13:26:10 THAT MY GRANDFATHER BEGAN TO IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR 13:26:14 HIS SON AND HIS SON WHO GREW UP HERDING GOATS IN A SMALL VILLAGE 13:26:19 IN AFRICA COULD SUDDENLY SET HIS SIGHTS A LITTLE HIGHER AND 13:26:24 SUDDENLY BELIEVE THAT MAYBE A BLACK MAN IN THIS WORLD HAD A 13:26:29 CHANCE, AND WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA AND BIRMINGHAM 13:26:33 ALSO STIRRED THE CONSCIENCE OF A NATION AND IT WORRIED FOLKS IN 13:26:38 THE WHITE HOUSE WHO SAID WE'RE BATTLING COMMUNISM, HOW ARE WE 13:26:41 GOING TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD IF 13:26:44 RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JOHN, WE'RE NOT OBSERVING THE 13:26:49 IDEALS THAT ARE SET FORTH IN OUR CONSTITUTION? 13:26:52 WE MIGHT BE ACCUSED OF BEING HYPOCRITES SO THE KENNEDYS 13:26:56 DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO DO AN AIRLIFT. 13:26:59 WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT TO AFRICA AND WE'RE GOING TO START 13:27:02 BRINGING YOUNG AFRICANS OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND BRING THEM 13:27:05 SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN WHAT A WONDERFUL 13:27:09 COUNTRY AMERICA IS AND THIS YOUNG MAN NAMED BARACK OBAMA GOT 13:27:13 ONE OF THOSE TICKETS AND CAME OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND HE MET 13:27:20 THIS WOMAN, WHOSE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER HAD 13:27:25 OWNED SLAVES, BUT SHE HAD A DIFFERENT IDEA. 13:27:29 THERE'S SOME GOOD CRAZINESS GOING ON BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AT 13:27:32 EACH OTHER AND THEY DECIDED, WE KNOW THAT IN THE WORLD AS IT HAS 13:27:36 BEEN IT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET TOGETHER AND HAVE 13:27:39 A CHILD, BUT SOMETHING IS STIRRING ACROSS THE COUNTRY 13:27:42 BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA, BECAUSE SOME 13:27:46 FOLKS ARE WILLING TO MARCH ACROSS THE BRIDGE. 13:27:49 AND SO THEY GOT TOGETHER AND BARACK OBAMA JR. WAS BORN. 13:27:55 SO DON'T TELL ME I DON'T HAVE A CLAIM ON SELMA, ALABAMA. 13:28:00 DON'T TELL ME I'M NOT COMING HOME WHEN I COME TO SELMA, 13:28:03 ALABAMA. I'M HERE BECAUSE SOMEBODY 13:28:06 MARCHED FOR OUR FREEDOM. I'M HERE BECAUSE Y'ALL 13:28:11 SACRIFICED FOR ME. I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF 13:28:19 THIS. I THANK THE MOSES GENERATION. 13:28:27 BUT WE GOT TO REMEMBER NOW THAT JOSHUA STILL HAD A JOB TO DO. 13:28:36 AS GREAT AS MOSES WAS, DESPITE ALL THAT HE DID, LEADING A 13:28:44 PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE, HE DIDN'T CROSS OVER THE RIVER TO SEE THE 13:28:51 PROMISED LAND. GOD TOLD HIM YOUR JOB IS DONE, 13:28:55 YOU'LL SEE IT. YOU'LL BE AT THE MOUNTAINTOP, 13:28:58 AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT I'VE PROMISED, WHAT I PROMISED TO 13:29:03 ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB AND I PROMISED TO YOU, YOU CAN SEE 13:29:07 THAT I WILL FULFILL THAT PROMISE. 13:29:10 BUT YOU WON'T GO THERE. WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE IT TO THE 13:29:14 JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS. 13:29:18 THERE'S STILL SOME BATTLES HA NEED TO BE FOUGHT, SOME RIVERS 13:29:21 THAT NEED TO BE CROSSED. LIKE MOSES, THE TASK WAS PASSED 13:29:27 ON TO THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AS DESERVING, MIGHT NOT 13:29:33 HAVE BEEN AS COURAGEOUS FIND THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF THE RISKS 13:29:37 THAT THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT 13:29:41 GRANDPARENTS HAD TAKEN, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY STILL DON'T 13:29:43 HAVE A BURDEN THAT THEY HAVE TO SHOULDER, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE 13:29:47 SOME RESPONSIBILITIES THE PREVIOUS GENERATION, THE MOSES 13:29:51 GENERATION POINTED THE WAY. THEY TOOK US 90% OF THE WAY 13:29:55 THERE, BUT WE STILL GOT THAT 10% IN ORDER TO CROSS OVER TO THE 13:30:00 OTHER SIDE. AND SO THE QUESTION, I GUESS, 13:30:05 THAT I HAVE TODAY IS WHAT'S CALLED OF US IN THIS JOSHUA 13:30:11 GENERATION? WHAT DO WE DO IN ORDER TO 13:30:13 FULFILL THAT LEGACY TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS AND THE DEBT 13:30:17 THAT WE OWE TO THOSE WHO ALLOWED US TO BE HERE TODAY? 13:30:22 NOW, I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVER FULLY REPAY THAT DEBT. 13:30:26 I THINK THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE LOOKING BACK, BUT THERE 13:30:33 ARE AT LEAST A FEW SUGGESTIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE IN TERMS OF 13:30:37 HOW WE MIGHT FULFILL THAT ENORMOUS LEGACY. 13:30:43 THE FIRST IS TO RECOGNIZE OUR HISTORY. 13:30:48 JOHN LEWIS TALKED ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY, BUT I WORRY 13:30:52 SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WE COME DOWN TO 13:30:57 MARCH EVERY YEAR ONCE A YEAR. WE OCCASIONALLY CELEBRATE THE 13:31:05 VARIOUS EVENTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 13:31:08 WE CELEBRATE DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY, BUT IT STRIKES ME THAT 13:31:12 UNDERSTANDING OUR HISTORY AND KNOWING WHAT IT MEANS IS AN 13:31:15 EVERYDAY ACTIVITY. YOU NOTICE WHEN MOSES SPOKE TO 13:31:23 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, TELLING THEM THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO BE 13:31:30 GOING WITH THEM, HE LAID OUT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND 13:31:34 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE SAID, BISHOP, WAS HE SAID, "KNOW YOUR 13:31:39 PAST. KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM. 13:31:41 KNOW HOW YOU WERE LED OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:31:45 KNOW HOW PHARAOH REFUSED TO LET YOU GO AND THAT GOD CAME DOWN 13:31:49 AND VISITED ALL MANNER OF PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE UNTIL FINALLY A 13:31:54 PEOPLE WERE FREED." MOSES TOLD THE JOSHUA 13:32:00 GENERATION, DON'T FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM, AND I WORRY 13:32:04 SOMETIMES THAT THE JOSHUA GENERATION IN ITS SUCCESS 13:32:08 FORGETS WHERE IT CAME FROM. THINKS IT DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE 13:32:12 AS MANY SACRIFICES, THINKS THAT THE VERY HEIGHT OF AMBITION IS 13:32:18 TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU CAN, TO DRIVE THE BIGGEST CAR 13:32:23 AND HAVE THE BIGGEST HOUSE AND WEAR A ROLEX WATCH AND GET YOUR 13:32:28 OWN PRIVATE JET, GET SOME OF THAT OPRAH MONEY, AND I THINK 13:32:37 THAT'S A GOOD THING. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH 13:32:40 MAKING MONEY BUT IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THEN YOU KNOW THAT 13:32:44 THERE'S A CERTAIN POVERTY OF AMBITION INVOLVED IN SIMPLY 13:32:50 STRIVING JUST FOR MONEY, MATERIALISM ALONE WILL NOT 13:32:58 FULFILL THE POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 13:33:01 YOU HAVE TO FILL THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 13:33:02 YOU HAVE TO FILL IT WITH THE GOLAN RULE. 13:33:05 YOU GOT TO FILL IT WITH THINKING ABOUT OTHERS, AND IF WE KNOW OUR 13:33:10 HISTORY, THEN WE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE HIGHEST MARK OF 13:33:16 SERVICE. SECOND THING THAT THE JOSHUA 13:33:19 GENERATION NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE PRINCIPLES OF 13:33:23 EQUALITY THAT WERE SET FORTH AND WERE BATTLED FOR HAVE TO BE 13:33:28 FOUGHT EACH AND EVERY DAY, IT IS NOT A ONE-TIME THING. 13:33:34 I WAS REMARKING AT THE UNITY BREAKFAST ON THE FACT THAT THE 13:33:40 SINGLE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONCERN THAT THIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 13:33:46 UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD WITH RESPECT TO 13:33:50 DISCRIMINATION HAS TO DO WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 13:33:53 THAT THEY HAVE BASICALLY SPENT ALL THEIR TIME WORRYING ABOUT 13:33:58 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE GIVEN A 13:34:01 LITTLE BREAK TO YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANICS 13:34:06 TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE TOO. 13:34:08 I HAD A SCHOOL IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THAT IT SET UP A 13:34:11 PROGRAM FOR Ph.D.s IN MATH AND SCIENCE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, 13:34:16 AND THE REASON THEY HAD SET IT UP IS BECAUSE WE ONLY HAD LESS 13:34:21 THAN 1% OF THE Ph.D.s, DOCTOR, IN SCIENCE AND MATH GO TO 13:34:27 AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE COMPETING IN A 13:34:30 GLOBAL ECONOMY -- WHEN WE'RE NOT JUST COMPETING AGAINST FOLKS IN 13:34:36 NORTH CAROLINA OR FLORIDA BUT IN CHINA AND INDIA AND WE NEED MATH 13:34:40 AND SCIENCE MAJORS, THIS UNIVERSITY THOUGHT THAT THIS 13:34:43 MIGHT BE A NICE THING TO DO, AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WROTE 13:34:46 THEM A LETTER SAYING WE ARE GOING TO THREATEN TO SUE YOU FOR 13:34:50 REVERSE DISCRIMINATION UNLESS YOU CEASE THIS PROGRAM, AND IT 13:34:56 REMINDS US THAT WE STILL GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO, AND THAT THE 13:35:02 BASIC ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS, THE 13:35:07 INJUSTICE THAT STILL EXISTS WITHIN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 13:35:11 SYSTEM, THE DISPARITY IN TERMS OF HOW PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN 13:35:17 THIS COUNTRY CONTINUES. IT HAS GOTTEN BETTER, AND WE 13:35:21 SHOULD NEVER DENY THAT IT'S GOTTEN BETTER, BUT WE SHOULDN'T 13:35:25 FORGET THAT BETTER IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, THAT UNTIL WE'VE GOT 13:35:30 ABSOLUTE EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY IN TERMS OF PEOPLE BEING 13:35:33 TREATED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR COLOR OR THEIR GENDER THAT THAT 13:35:37 IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON AND THE 13:35:42 JOSHUA GENERATION HAS A SIGNIFICANT TASK IN MAKING THAT 13:35:45 HAPPEN. THIRD THING, WE'VE GOT TO 13:35:51 RECOGNIZE THAT WE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, BUT WE'VE STILL 13:35:55 GOT A LOT OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH. 13:35:59 WE'VE GOT 46 -- 46 MILLION PEOPLE UNINSURED IN THIS COUNTRY 13:36:06 DESPITE SPENDING MORE MONEY ON HEALTH CARE THAN ANY NATION ON 13:36:08 EARTH. MAKES NO SENSE. 13:36:13 AS CONSEQUENCE WE'VE GOT WHAT'S KNOWN AS A HEALTH CARE DISPARITY 13:36:19 IN THIS NATION BECAUSE MANY OF THE UNINSURED ARE 13:36:23 AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR LATINO. LIFE EXPECTANCY IS LOWER, ALMOST 13:36:27 EVERY DISEASE IS HIGHER WITHIN MINORITY COMMUNITIES. 13:36:32 THE HEALTH CARE GAME. BLACKS ARE LESS LIKELY IN THEIR 13:36:35 SCHOOLS TO HAVE ADEQUATE FUNDING. 13:36:39 WE HAVE LESS QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:43 WE HAVE FEWER TEXTBOOKS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:47 WE GOT IN SOME SCHOOLS RATS OUTNUMBERING COMPUTERS. 13:36:52 THAT'S CALLED THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:36:55 YOU GOT A HEALTH CARE GAP. YOU'VE GOT AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:37:02 YOU'VE GOT KATRINA STILL UNDONE. WENT DUNN TO NEW ORLEANS THREE 13:37:11 WEEKS AGO. STILL LOOKS BOMBED OUT. 13:37:13 STILL NOT REBUILT. WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED, THE FEDERAL 13:37:19 GOVERNMENT HAS A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF GRANTS TO HELP REBUILD. 13:37:23 THEY WAIVED ANY REQUIREMENT THAT MANHATTAN WOULD HAVE TO PAY 10% 13:37:27 OF THE COST OF REBUILDING. WHEN HURRICANE FLORIDA -- 13:37:32 HURRICANE ANDREWS HAPPENED IN FLORIDA, 10% REQUIREMENT, THEY 13:37:36 WAIVED IT BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT SOME DISASTERS 13:37:39 ARE SO DEVASTATING THAT WE CAN'T EXPECT A COMMUNITY TO REBUILD. 13:37:46 NEW ORLEANS, THE LARGEST NATURAL CATASTROPHE IN OUR HISTORY, THE 13:37:52 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS, WHERE IS YOUR 10%? 13:37:58 THERE'S AN EMPATHY GAP. THERE'S A GAP IN TERMS OF 13:38:04 SYMPATHIZING FOR THOSE FOLKS IN NEW ORLEANS AS BAD AS 13:38:07 SYMPATHIZING WITH FOLKS ELSEWHERE. 13:38:09 IT'S NOT A GAP THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FELT BECAUSE WE SAW HOW 13:38:13 THEY RESPONDED. BUT SOMEHOW OUR GOVERNMENT 13:38:17 DIDN'T RESPOND WITH THAT SAME SENSE OF COMPASSION AND THAT 13:38:21 SAME SENSE OF KINDNESS. AND HERE'S THE WORST PART, THE 13:38:27 TRAGEDY IN NEW ORLEANS HAPPENED WELL BEFORE THE HURRICANE 13:38:32 STRUCK. BECAUSE MANY OF THOSE 13:38:34 COMMUNITIES THERE WERE SO MANY YOUNG MEN IN PRISON, SO MANY 13:38:38 KIDS DROPPING OUT, SO LITTLE HOPE, A HOPE GAP, A HOPE GAP 13:38:42 THAT STILL PERVADES TOO MANY COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE 13:38:45 COUNTRY AND RIGHT HERE IN ALABAMA. 13:38:49 SO THE QUESTION IS THEN, WHAT ARE WE THE JOSHUA GENERATION 13:38:53 DOING TO CLOSE THOSE GAPS? ARE WE DOING EVERY SINGLE THING 13:38:58 THAT WE CAN DO IN CONGRESS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT EARLY 13:39:02 EDUCATION IS ADEQUATELY FUNDED AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE 13:39:06 RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE SO IF SOMEBODY WORKS EACH AND EVERY 13:39:10 DAY THEY CAN HAVE SOME DIGNITY AND RESPECT? 13:39:12 ARE WE ENSURING IF SOMEBODY LOSES A JOB THAT THEY'RE GETTING 13:39:16 RETRAINED AND THAT IF THEY'VE LOST THEIR HEALTH CARE AND THEIR 13:39:21 PENSION THAT SOMEBODY IS THERE TO HELP THEM GET BACK ON THEIR 13:39:24 FEET? ARE WE MAKING SURE WE'RE GIVING 13:39:25 A SECOND CHANCE TO THOSE WHO HAVE STRAYED AND GONE TO PRISON 13:39:29 BUT WANT TO START A NEW LIFE? GOVERNMENT ALONE CAN'T SOLVE ALL 13:39:37 THOSE PROBLEMS, BUT GOVERNMENT CAN HELP, AND IT'S THE 13:39:41 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE 13:39:48 A GOVERNMENT AS RESPONSIBLE AS THE NEED EXISTS ALL ACROSS 13:39:52 AMERICA BUT THAT BRINGS ME TO ONE OTHER POINT THOUGH, JOSHUA 13:39:56 GENERATION, AND THAT IS THIS, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ENOUGH 13:40:01 JUST TO ASK WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR US, IT'S IMPORTANT 13:40:05 FOR US TO ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OURSELVES. 13:40:10 YET ONE OF THE SIGNATURE ASPECTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS 13:40:15 THE DEGREE OF DISCIPLINE AND FORTITUDE THAT WAS INSTILLED IN 13:40:21 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED. IMAGINE YOUNG PEOPLE, 16, 17, 13:40:29 20, 21 BACK STRAIGHT, EYES CLEAR, SUIT AND TIE SITTING DOWN 13:40:37 AT A LUNCH COUNTER KNOW BE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SPILL MILK 13:40:40 ON YOU BUT YOU HAVE THE DISCIPLINE TO UNDERSTAND THAT 13:40:43 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RETALIATE BECAUSE IN SHOWING THE WORLD HOW 13:40:48 DISCIPLINED WE WERE AS A PEOPLE, WE WERE ABLE TO WIN OVER THE 13:40:53 CONSCIENCE OF A NATION. I CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN THAT WE 13:41:00 HAVE INSTILLED THAT SAME SENSE OF MORAL CLARITY AND PURPOSE IN 13:41:05 THIS GENERATION. BISHOP, SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE 13:41:08 WE'VE LOST IT A LITTLE BIT. YOU KNOW, I'M FIGHTING TO MAKE 13:41:14 SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE ADEQUATELY FUNDED. 13:41:16 ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE HAVE INEQUITIES IN HOW SCHOOLS ARE 13:41:20 FUNDED BECAUSE IT'S RELIED ON PROPERTY TAXES AND PEOPLE WHO 13:41:23 HAPPEN TO BE BORN IN WEALTHY DISTRICTS, SOMEHOW THEY GET 13:41:28 BETTER SCHOOLS THAN FOLKS WHO ARE BORN IN POOR DISTRICTS AND 13:41:32 THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. 13:41:34 THAT'S NOT THE AMERICAN WAY, BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, EVEN AS I FIGHT 13:41:38 ON BEHALF OF MORE EDUCATION FUNDING, MORE EQUITY, I HAVE TO 13:41:42 ALSO SAY THAT IF PARENTS DON'T TURN OFF THE TELEVISION SET WHEN 13:41:47 THE CHILD COMES HOME FROM SCHOOL, AND MAKE SURE THEY SIT 13:41:52 DOWN AND DO THEIR HOMEWORK AND GO TALK TO THE TEACHERS AND FIND 13:41:56 OUT HOW THEY'RE DOING AND IF WE DON'T START INSTILLING A SENSE 13:41:59 IN OUR YOUNG CHILDREN, THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED 13:42:04 ABOUT IN EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, I DON'T KNOW WHO 13:42:07 CAUGHT THEM THAT READING AND WRITING AND CONJUGATING YOUR 13:42:11 VERBS WAS ACTING WHITE, WE'VE GOT TO GET OVER THAT MENTALITY. 13:42:14 WE'VE GOT TO DO FOR OURSEOURSEL. THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE MOSES 13:42:19 GENERATION TEACHES US, NOT SAYING TO OURSELVES WE CAN'T DO 13:42:23 SOMETHING BUT TELLING OURSELVES THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE. 13:42:27 WE CAN DO THAT. WE'VE GOT POWER IN OUR HANDS. 13:42:36 FOLKS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR GOVERNMENT. 13:42:39 I UNDERSTAND THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE COMPLAINING ABOUT. 13:42:45 I'M IN WASHINGTON. I SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 13:42:48 I SEE THOSE POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES HAVE SNUCK BACK 13:42:52 IN THERE. THAT THEY'RE WRITING THE ENERGY 13:42:55 BILLS AND THE DRUG LAWS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT. 13:42:58 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, I ALSO KNOW THAT IF COUSIN POOKIE WOULD 13:43:05 VOTE, IF UNCLE JETHRO WOULD GET OFF THE COUCH AND STOP WATCHING 13:43:12 "SPORTSCENTER" AND GO REGISTER SOME FOLKS AND GO TO THE POLLS, 13:43:15 WE MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF POLITICS. 13:43:18 THAT'S WHAT THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US. 13:43:23 KICK OFF YOUR BEDROOM SLIPPERS, PUT ON YOUR MARCHING SHOES, GO 13:43:28 DO SOME POLITICS, CHANGE THIS COUNTRY. 13:43:30 THAT'S WHAT THEY TEACH US. WE'VE GOT TOO MANY CHILDREN IN 13:43:39 POVERTY IN THIS COUNTRY, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ASHAMED. 13:43:43 BUT DON'T TELL ME EARTH DOESN'T HAVE A LITTLE TO DO WITH THE 13:43:46 FACT THAT WE GOT TOO MANY DADDIES NOT ACTING LIKE DADDIES. 13:43:53 I THINK THAT -- THINK THAT FATHERHOOD ENDS AT CONCEPTION, I 13:43:59 KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE MY FATHER WASN'T AROUND 13:44:02 WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND I STRUGGLED. 13:44:07 THOSE OF YOU WHO READ MY BOOK KNOW. 13:44:09 I WENT THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT TIMES. 13:44:11 I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A STRONG MALE FIGURE 13:44:15 IN THE HOUSE, WHICH IS WHY THE HARDEST THING ABOUT ME BEING IN 13:44:19 POLITICS SOMETIMES IS NOT BEING HOME AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE AND I'M 13:44:22 JUST BLESSED THAT I'VE GOT SUCH A WONDERFUL WIFE AT HOME TO HOLD 13:44:26 THINGS TOGETHER, BUT DON'T TELL ME THAT WE CAN'T DO BETTER BY 13:44:36 OUR CHILDREN, THAT WE CAN'T TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE 13:44:40 WE'RE INSTILLING IN THEM THE VALUES AND THE IDEAS THAT THE 13:44:43 MOSES GENERATION TAUGHT US ABOUT SACRIFICE AND DIGNITY AND 13:44:47 HONESTY AND HARD WORK AND DISCIPLINE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. 13:44:51 THAT COMES FROM US. WE'VE GOT TO TRANSMIT THAT TO 13:44:56 THE NEXT GENERATION AND I GUESS THE POINT THAT I'M MAKE 13:44:58 SOMETHING THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WASN'T JUST A FIGHT 13:45:03 AGAINST THE OPPRESSOR, IT WAS ALSO A FIGHT AGAINST THE 13:45:06 OPPRESSOR IN EACH OF US. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S EASY TO 13:45:12 JUST POINT AT SOMEBODY ELSE AND SAY, IT'S THERE THEIR FAULT BUT 13:45:17 OPPRESSION HAS A WAY OF CREEPING INTO YOU, REVEREND. 13:45:19 IT HAS A WAY OF STUNTING YOURSELF. 13:45:23 YOU START TELLING YOURSELF, BISHOP, I CAN'T DO SOMETHING. 13:45:27 I CAN'T READ, I CAN'T -- I CAN'T GO TO COLLEGE. 13:45:30 I CAN'T START A BUSINESS. I CAN'T RUN FOR CONGRESS. 13:45:33 I CAN'T RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, PEOPLE START TELLING YOU CAN'T 13:45:38 DO SOMETHING, AFTER A WHILE, YOU TART BELIEVING IT. 13:45:44 AND PART OF WHAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS ABOUT WAS 13:45:47 RECOGNIZING THAT WE HAVE TO TRANSFORM OURSELVES IN ORDER TO 13:45:50 TRANSFORM THE WORLD. MAHATMA GANDHI, THE GREAT HERO 13:45:57 OF DR. KING AND THE PERSON WHO HELPED CREATE THE NONVIOLENT 13:46:03 MOVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD, HE ONCE SAID THAT "YOU CAN'T CHANGE 13:46:07 THE WORLD IF YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED. 13:46:10 IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, THE CHANGE HAS TO HAPPEN WITH 13:46:13 YOU FIRST." AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE 13:46:19 GREATEST AND MOST HONORABLE OF GENERATIONS HAS TAUGHT US. 13:46:26 BUT THE FINAL THING THAT I THINK THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US 13:46:29 IS TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE DO WHAT WE DO BECAUSE GOD IS 13:46:35 WITH US. YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES WAS FIRST 13:46:41 CALLED TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT OF THE PROMISED LAND, HE SAID, "I DON'T 13:46:45 THINK I CAN DO IT, LORD. I DON'T SPEAK LIKE REVEREND 13:46:49 LOWERY. I DON'T -- I DON'T FEEL BRAVE 13:46:53 AND COURAGEOUS" AND THE LORD SAID "I WILL BE WITH YOU. 13:46:59 THROW DOWN THAT ROD, PICK IT BACK UP. 13:47:03 I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO." 13:47:06 AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:47:14 JOSHUA SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M SCARED. 13:47:17 I'M NOT SURE THAT I AM UP TO THE CHALLENGE, AND THE LORD SAID TO 13:47:25 HIM, EVERY PLACE THAT THE SOUL OF YOUR FOOT WILL TREAD UPON, I 13:47:31 HAVE GIVEN YOU. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I 13:47:36 AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:47:43 THAT'S A PRAYER FOR A JOURNEY, A PRAYER THAT KEPT A WOMAN IN HER 13:47:47 SEAT WHEN THE BUS DRIVER TOLD HER TO GET UP, A PRAYER THAT LED 13:47:50 NINE CHILDREN THROUGH THE DOORS OF A LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL, A 13:47:53 PRAYER THAT CARRIED OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER A BRIDGE RIGHT 13:47:57 HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE WHEN 13:48:02 YOU SEE ROW AND ROW OF STATE TROOPER FACING YOU, YOU SEE THE 13:48:07 HORSES AND THE TEAR GAS, HOW ELSE CAN YOU WALK TOWARDS THEM 13:48:10 UNARMED AND UNAFRAID? WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU AND 13:48:13 START BEATING YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR NEIGHBORS HOW ELSE CAN YOU 13:48:17 SIMPLY KNEEL DOWN, BOW YOUR HEAD AND ASK THE LORD FOR SALVATION 13:48:20 WHEN YOU SEE HEADS GASHED OPEN AND EYES BURNING AND LITTLE 13:48:24 CHILDREN LYING HURT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WHEN YOU'RE JOHN 13:48:28 LEWIS AND YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE ON 13:48:31 SUNDAY HOW DO YOU WAKE UP ON MONDAY AND KEEP ON MARCHING? 13:48:34 BE STRONG, AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. 13:48:41 WE'VE COME A LONG WAY IN THIS JOURNEY, BUT WE STILL HAVE A 13:48:46 LONG WAY TO TRAVEL. WE TRAVEL BECAUSE GOD WAS WITH 13:48:52 US. IT'S NOT HOW FAR WE'VE COME THIS 13:48:55 FAR ON OUR JOURNEY. THAT BRIDGE OUTSIDE WAS CROSSED 13:48:58 BY BLACKS AND WHITES, NORTHERNERS AND SOUTHERNERS, 13:49:01 TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN, SHOPKEEPERS AND JANITORS, A 13:49:04 BELOVED COMMUNITY OF GOD'S CHILDREN WILLING TO TAKE THOSE 13:49:07 STEPS TOGETHER. BUT IT WAS LEFT TO THE JOSHUAS 13:49:12 TO FINISH THE JOURNEY MOSES HAD BEGUN AND TODAY WE'RE CALLED TO 13:49:15 BE THE JOSHUAS OF OUR TIME, TO BE THE GENERATION THAT FINDS OUR 13:49:19 WAY ACROSS THIS RIVER, THERE WILL BE DAYS WHEN THE WATER 13:49:23 SEEMS WIDE AND THE JOURNEY TOO FAR, BUT IN THOSE MOMENTS WE 13:49:27 MUST REMEMBER THAT THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, THERE HAS BEEN A 13:49:31 RUNNING THREAD OF IDEALS THAT HAVE GUIDED OUR TRAVELS AND 13:49:35 PUSHED US FORWARD EVEN WHEN THEY'RE JUST BEYOND OUR REACH, 13:49:40 LIBERTY IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY, EQUALITY IN THE FACE OF BITTER 13:49:44 INJUSTICE, OPPORTUNITY WHERE THERE WAS NONE AND HOPE OVER THE 13:49:46 MOST CRUSHING DE SPARE, THOSE IDEALS, THOSE VALUES, THEY 13:49:50 BECKON US STILL, AND WHEN WE HAVE OUR DOUBTS AND OUR FEARS, 13:49:53 JUST LIKE JOSHUA DID, WHEN THE ROAD LOOKS TOO LONG AND IT SEEMS 13:49:57 LIKE WE MAY LOSE OUR WAY, REMEMBER WHAT THESE PEOPLE DID 13:50:01 ON THAT BRIDGE, KEEPING YOUR H 13:50:07 HEART, THE PRAYER OF THAT JOURNEY, THE PRAYER THAT GOD 13:50:09 GAVE TO JOSHUA, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF 13:50:16 INJUSTICE, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF PREJUDICE 13:50:21 AND HATRED, IN THE FACE OF JOBLESSNESS AND HELPLESSNESS AND 13:50:28 HOPELESSNESS, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:50:30 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED TODAY IN THE FACE 13:50:34 OF OUR DOUBTS AND FEARS, IN THE FACE OF SKEPTICISM, IN THE FACE 13:50:39 OF CYNICISM, IN THE FACE OF A MIGHTY RIVER, BE STRONG AND HAVE 13:50:44 COURAGE AND LET US CROSS OVER THAT PROMISED LAND TOGETHER. 13:50:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY. GOD BLESS YOU. END SENATOR BARACK OBAMA

[VOTE 2008 / OBAMA AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA] [SELMA, ALA USA] FTG OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-ILL) AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA 12:28:32 Obama standing 12:29:01 Obama sits back down 12:41:55 Obama receiving a standing ovation 12:42:08 Obama smiling and laughing 12:46:07 Obama standing behind preacher 12:46:21 Obama clapping and sitting back down 12:52:41 Obama clapping 13:16:19 I want to start by saying I want to thank him for his support . 13:17:14 Somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage . 13:17:39 To all the distinguished guests and clergy. I'm not sure I'm going to thank the . because he stole the show . nervous about following so many great clergy men .. 13:18:31 Thanks you very much for letting me speak . after I announced I was running for president of the united states . drawing from script 13:19:24 I acknowledge there is a certain amount of presumptuousness with this . his son is now preacher at my church . I got a letter giving me encouragement telling me how proud he was and reminded me to stay true to my ideals . tell them to look at the story of Joshua . 13:20:37 So I just want to talk a little bit about . we are in the presence today of a lot of Moses' . people who battle on behalf of all of America . endured taunts and torments . gave full measure of their devotion . who said that some are atop and some are at the bottom and that's how it will always be . 13:22:53 They wondered through a desert and knowing that god was with them . and it's because they marched that the next generation has not been as bloodied . it's because they marched that I stand here today . 13:23:54 Because not only is my career the result of the men and women we honor here today, my very existence might not have happened . you don't understand, my grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya . 13:25:24 Yet something happened here in Selma Alabama . 13:26:25 Worried folks in the white house, we're fighting communism . the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift . this young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets . 13:27:46 Don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma Alabama . I'm here because ya'll sacrificed or me . I stand on your shoulders . 13:32:36 Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence, you have to fill that . second thing is the principals of equality is not a one sided thing . 13:33:43 They have basically spent all their time worrying about affirmative action . reminds us we still have a lot work to do . we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough . that is something that we have got to continue to work on 13:35:40 Third thing, we fought for civil rights, but we still have a lot of economic rights to work for . we've got what's know as a health care disparity . life expectancy is lower in the minorities . we have fewer teachers and text books in the schools . health care gap and achievement gap 13:37:00 New Orleans still looks bombed out . when 9-11 happened, they waived any requirement . because they understood . federal government says where's your 10%. There's an empathy gap . 13:38:02 Not a gap the American people felt . the government was the problem . because many of those communities . hope gap . 13:38:40 The question is, what are we the Joshua generation doing to close the gap .. Are we ensuring . and giving a second chance 13:39:29 Government can help . make sure the government is responsive . it's enough to ask with the government can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves . 13:41:24 I tell you what, even as I fight for more education funding . if parents don't turn off the television set . it we don't instill a sense in our young children . we've got to get over that mentality . 13:42:14 Telling ourselves we can achieve . we can do that. We can achieve. 13:42:37 I'm in Washington, I see what's going on . I also know that cousin poky wasn't voting . kick off your marching slippers, put on your marching shoes . 13:43:44 They think that fatherhood ends at conception . I went through some difficult times . 13:44:53 It wasn't just a fight against the oppressor, it was a fight against the oppressor in all of us . it has a way of stunting yourself . part of what the civil rights movement was realizing you have to change more then just ourselves . 13:46:04 That is something that the greatest and the most honorable of generations has taught us . we do what we do because God is with us . 13:46:56 The same thing happened with the Joshua generation . not sure I can do this . be strong and have courage . that's a prayer for a journey . 13:48:31 We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to go . that bridge was crossed . and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our generation .. Liberty in the face of injustice . 13:49:56 Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey . be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice . hopelessness 13:50:29 In the face of a mighty river, be strong and have courage and lets cross that bridge together, thank you 13:50:55 Obama embracing various members of the clergy on stage 13:51:37 Obama sits back down 13:56:42 Obama head down in prayer and song SEGMENT [1] 2007/03/04 ************************************************ SENATOR BARACK OBAMA SPEAKING AT THE BROWN CHAPEL IN SELMA, ALABAMA 13:16:08 SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: I MUST BEGIN BECAUSE AT THE 13:16:16 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS MORNING, I WAS SAVING HIM FOR LAST AND THE 13:16:20 LIST OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WAS SO LONG, I LEFT HIM OUT AFTER THAT 13:16:25 INTRODUCTION, SO I'M GOING TO START BY SAYING HOW MUCH I 13:16:29 APPRECIATE THE FRIENDSHIP AND THE SUPPORT AND THE OUTSTANDING 13:16:33 WORK THAT HE DOES EACH AND EVERY DAY, NOT JUST IN CAPITOL HILL 13:16:39 BUT ALSO BACK HERE IN THE DISTRICT, PLEASE GIVE A WARM 13:16:42 ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN ARTUR DAVIS. 13:16:45 [ APPLAUSE ] IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE, 13:16:58 REVEREND JACKSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TO THE FAMILY OF BROWN 13:17:04 AM & E AND BISHOP KIRKLAND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL 13:17:09 MESSAGE AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE OF THE 13:17:16 GREAT HEROS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND AMERICAN LIFE, SOMEBODY WHO 13:17:29 CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF DECENCY AND COURAGE, SOMEBODY WHO I HAVE 13:17:35 ADMIRED ALL MY LIFE AND WERE IT NOT FOR HIM I'M NOT SURE I WOULD 13:17:41 BE HERE TODAY, CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, I'M THANKFUL TO HIM. 13:17:44 [ APPLAUSE ] TO ALL THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS 13:17:51 AND CLERGY, I'M NOT SURE I'M GOING TO THANK REVEREND LOWERY 13:17:56 BECAUSE HE STOLE THE SHOW. [ LAUGHTER ] 13:18:06 I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER I KNOW WE'VE GOT C.T. VIVIAN AND ALL 13:18:11 THIS. WHEN YOU HAVE TO SPEAK IN FRONT 13:18:12 OF SOMEBODY WHO MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID WAS THE GREATEST 13:18:15 PREACHER HE EVER HEARD THEN YOU GOT SOME PROBLEMS, AND I'M A 13:18:19 LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT FOLLOWING SO MANY GREAT PREACHERS. 13:18:28 BUT I AM HOPING THAT THE SPIRIT MOVES ME. 13:18:31 TO ALL MY CONGRESSIONAL COLLEAGUES AND OTHER ELECTED 13:18:34 OFFICIALS WERE HERE, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO HAVE GIVEN ME SUCH A 13:18:38 WARM WELCOME, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TO 13:18:42 YOU HERE TODAY. YOU KNOW, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, 13:18:50 AFTER I HAD ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF 13:18:55 THE UNITED STATES, I STOOD IN FRONT OF THE OLD STATE CAPITOL 13:18:59 IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DELIVERED HIS 13:19:05 SPEECH DECLARING DASH DRAWING FROM SCRIPTURE THAT A HOUSE 13:19:09 DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF COULD NOT STAND, AND I STOOD AND I 13:19:13 ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY, AND THERE WERE A 13:19:17 LOT OF COMMENTATORS AS THEY ARE PRONE TO DO WHO QUESTIONED THE 13:19:24 AUDACITY OF A YOUNG MAN LIKE MYSELF, HADN'T BEEN IN 13:19:29 WASHINGTON TOO LONG AND I ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE'S A 13:19:34 CERTAIN PRESUMPTUOUSNESS ABOUT THIS, BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM A 13:19:40 FRIEND OF SOME OF YOURS NAMED REVEREND OTIS MALSH JR. IN 13:19:49 CLEVELAND, ILLINOIS, AND HIS SON, OTIS MOSS III IS NOW 13:19:54 PASTORING AT MY CHURCH, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST AND I 13:19:59 MUST SEND GREETINGS FROM OUR SENIOR PASTOR DR. INJURE MYA A. 13:20:05 WRIGHT JR., BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM REVEREND OTIS MOSS JR. 13:20:10 GIVING ME ENCOURAGEMENT AND SAYING HOW PROUD HE WAS THAT I 13:20:15 HAD ANNOUNCED, AND ENCOURAGING ME TO STAY TRUE TO MY IDEALS AND 13:20:23 MY VALUES AND NOT TO BE FEARFUL AND HE SAID IF THERE'S SOME 13:20:29 FOLKS OUT THERE WHO ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT YOU 13:20:34 SHOULD RUN, JUST TELL THEM TO LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOSHUA. 13:20:43 BECAUSE YOU'RE PART OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:20:47 AND SO I JUST WANT TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT MOSES AND AARON AND 13:20:53 JOSHUA. BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE 13:21:00 TODAY OF A LOT OF MOSESS. WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE TODAY OF 13:21:08 GIANTS WHOSE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON, PEOPLE WHO BATTLED ON 13:21:17 BEHALF, NOT JUST OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, BUT ON BEHALF 13:21:21 OF ALL OF AMERICA, THAT BATTLED FOR AMERICA'S SOUL, THAT SHED 13:21:31 BLOOD, THAT ENDURED TAUNTS AND TORMENT AND IN SOME CASES GAVE 13:21:37 THE FULL MEASURE OF THEIR DEVOTION. 13:21:41 LIKE MOSES, THEY CHALLENGED FARROW, THE PRINCES AND POWERS, 13:21:51 WHO SAID THAT SOME ARE ATOP AND OTHERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM, AND 13:21:57 THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE. 13:22:00 THERE WERE PEOPLE LIKE ANNA COOPER AND MARIE FOSTER AND 13:22:05 JIMMY LEE JACKSON AND MAURICE OLETT, C.T. VIVIAN, REVEREND 13:22:13 LOWERY, JOHN LEWIS, WHO SAID WE CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, 13:22:19 THAT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE FOR US TOO. 13:22:23 THAT GOD HAS MADE US IN HIS IMAGE, AND THAT WE REJECT THE 13:22:28 NOTION THAT WE WILL FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES BE CONFINED TO A 13:22:33 STATION OF INFERIORITY, THAT WE CAN ASPIRE TO THE HIGHEST OF 13:22:39 HEIGHTS THAT OUR TALENTS CAN BE EXPRESSED TO THEIR FULLEST. 13:22:45 AND SO BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY ENDURED, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY 13:22:50 MARCHED, THEY LED A PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:22:56 THEY TOOK THEM ACROSS A SEA THAT FOLKS THOUGHT COULD NOT BE 13:23:02 PARTED. THEY WANDERED THROUGH A DESERT, 13:23:06 BUT ALWAYS KNOWING THAT GOD WAS WITH THEM AND THAT IF THEY 13:23:11 MAINTAINED THAT TRUST IN GOD, THAT THEY WOULD BE ALL RIGHT. 13:23:17 AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT THE NEXT GENERATION HASN'T 13:23:25 BEEN BLOODED SO MUCH. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT 13:23:28 WE ELECTED COUNCILMEN AND CONGRESSMEN. 13:23:32 IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT WE HAVE ARTUR DAVIS AND KEITH 13:23:37 ELLISON. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I 13:23:39 GOT THE KIND OF EDUCATION I GOT, THAT I GOT A LAW DEGREE AND A 13:23:45 SEAT IN THE ILLINOIS SENATE AND ULTIMATELY IN THE UNITED STATES 13:23:48 SENATE IS BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU HERE 13:23:50 TODAY. AND I WAS MENTIONING AT THE 13:24:02 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS IMPORTANT, MY DEBT IS EVEN GREATER THAN 13:24:05 THAT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS MY CAREER THE RESULT OF THE WORK OF 13:24:13 THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WE HONOR HERE TODAY, MY VERY EXISTENCE 13:24:21 MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SOME OF THE 13:24:24 FOLKS HERE TODAY. I MENTIONED AT THE UNITY 13:24:28 BREAKFAST THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING, WELL, YOU 13:24:31 KNOW, YOUR FATHER WAS FROM AFRICA, YOUR MOTHER, SHE'S A 13:24:35 WHITE WOMAN FROM KANSAS, I'M NOT SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME 13:24:39 EXPERIENCE, AND I TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT. 13:24:41 YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU SEE, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A 13:24:45 COOK TO THE BRITISH IN KENYA, GREW UP IN A SMALL VILLAGE, AND 13:24:52 ALL HIS LIFE THAT'S ALL HE WAS WAS A COOK AND A HOUSEBOY AND 13:24:56 THAT'S WHAT THEY CALLED HIM EVEN WHEN HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD THEY 13:25:00 CALLED HIM A HOUSEBOY. WOULDN'T CALL HIM BY HIS LAST 13:25:05 NAME. CALLED HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME. 13:25:08 SOUND FAMILIAR? AND HE HAD TO CARRY A PASSBOOK 13:25:14 AROUND, BECAUSE AFRICANS IN THEIR OWN LAND IN THEIR OWN 13:25:17 COUNTRY AT THAT TIME BECAUSE IT WAS A BRITISH COLONY COULD NOT 13:25:22 MOVE ABOUT FREELY. THEY COULD ONLY GO WHERE THEY 13:25:25 WERE TOLD TO G THEY COULD ONLY WORK WHERE THEY WERE TOLD TO 13:25:31 WORK, AND YET SOMETHING HAPPENED BACK HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA, 13:25:37 SOMETHING HAPPENED IN BIRMINGHAM THAT SENT OUT WHAT BOBBY KENNEDY 13:25:41 CALLED RIPPLES OF HOPE ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 13:25:44 SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN A BUNCH OF WOMEN DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO 13:25:49 WALK INSTEAD OF RIDE THE BUS AFTER A LONG DAY OF DOING 13:25:53 SOMEBODY ELSE'S LAUNDRY AND LOOKING AFTER SOMEBODY ELSE'S 13:25:55 CHILDREN WHEN MEN WHO HAD Ph.D.s WERE WORKING AS PORTERS DECIDED 13:26:01 THAT'S ENOUGH AND WE'RE GOING TO STAND UP DESPITE THE RISKS FOR 13:26:04 OUR DIGNITY AND I RESPECT THAT CENTER SHOUT ACROSS OCEANS SO 13:26:10 THAT MY GRANDFATHER BEGAN TO IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR 13:26:14 HIS SON AND HIS SON WHO GREW UP HERDING GOATS IN A SMALL VILLAGE 13:26:19 IN AFRICA COULD SUDDENLY SET HIS SIGHTS A LITTLE HIGHER AND 13:26:24 SUDDENLY BELIEVE THAT MAYBE A BLACK MAN IN THIS WORLD HAD A 13:26:29 CHANCE, AND WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA AND BIRMINGHAM 13:26:33 ALSO STIRRED THE CONSCIENCE OF A NATION AND IT WORRIED FOLKS IN 13:26:38 THE WHITE HOUSE WHO SAID WE'RE BATTLING COMMUNISM, HOW ARE WE 13:26:41 GOING TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD IF 13:26:44 RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JOHN, WE'RE NOT OBSERVING THE 13:26:49 IDEALS THAT ARE SET FORTH IN OUR CONSTITUTION? 13:26:52 WE MIGHT BE ACCUSED OF BEING HYPOCRITES SO THE KENNEDYS 13:26:56 DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO DO AN AIRLIFT. 13:26:59 WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT TO AFRICA AND WE'RE GOING TO START 13:27:02 BRINGING YOUNG AFRICANS OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND BRING THEM 13:27:05 SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN WHAT A WONDERFUL 13:27:09 COUNTRY AMERICA IS AND THIS YOUNG MAN NAMED BARACK OBAMA GOT 13:27:13 ONE OF THOSE TICKETS AND CAME OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND HE MET 13:27:20 THIS WOMAN, WHOSE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER HAD 13:27:25 OWNED SLAVES, BUT SHE HAD A DIFFERENT IDEA. 13:27:29 THERE'S SOME GOOD CRAZINESS GOING ON BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AT 13:27:32 EACH OTHER AND THEY DECIDED, WE KNOW THAT IN THE WORLD AS IT HAS 13:27:36 BEEN IT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET TOGETHER AND HAVE 13:27:39 A CHILD, BUT SOMETHING IS STIRRING ACROSS THE COUNTRY 13:27:42 BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA, BECAUSE SOME 13:27:46 FOLKS ARE WILLING TO MARCH ACROSS THE BRIDGE. 13:27:49 AND SO THEY GOT TOGETHER AND BARACK OBAMA JR. WAS BORN. 13:27:55 SO DON'T TELL ME I DON'T HAVE A CLAIM ON SELMA, ALABAMA. 13:28:00 DON'T TELL ME I'M NOT COMING HOME WHEN I COME TO SELMA, 13:28:03 ALABAMA. I'M HERE BECAUSE SOMEBODY 13:28:06 MARCHED FOR OUR FREEDOM. I'M HERE BECAUSE Y'ALL 13:28:11 SACRIFICED FOR ME. I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF 13:28:19 THIS. I THANK THE MOSES GENERATION. 13:28:27 BUT WE GOT TO REMEMBER NOW THAT JOSHUA STILL HAD A JOB TO DO. 13:28:36 AS GREAT AS MOSES WAS, DESPITE ALL THAT HE DID, LEADING A 13:28:44 PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE, HE DIDN'T CROSS OVER THE RIVER TO SEE THE 13:28:51 PROMISED LAND. GOD TOLD HIM YOUR JOB IS DONE, 13:28:55 YOU'LL SEE IT. YOU'LL BE AT THE MOUNTAINTOP, 13:28:58 AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT I'VE PROMISED, WHAT I PROMISED TO 13:29:03 ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB AND I PROMISED TO YOU, YOU CAN SEE 13:29:07 THAT I WILL FULFILL THAT PROMISE. 13:29:10 BUT YOU WON'T GO THERE. WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE IT TO THE 13:29:14 JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS. 13:29:18 THERE'S STILL SOME BATTLES HA NEED TO BE FOUGHT, SOME RIVERS 13:29:21 THAT NEED TO BE CROSSED. LIKE MOSES, THE TASK WAS PASSED 13:29:27 ON TO THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AS DESERVING, MIGHT NOT 13:29:33 HAVE BEEN AS COURAGEOUS FIND THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF THE RISKS 13:29:37 THAT THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT 13:29:41 GRANDPARENTS HAD TAKEN, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY STILL DON'T 13:29:43 HAVE A BURDEN THAT THEY HAVE TO SHOULDER, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE 13:29:47 SOME RESPONSIBILITIES THE PREVIOUS GENERATION, THE MOSES 13:29:51 GENERATION POINTED THE WAY. THEY TOOK US 90% OF THE WAY 13:29:55 THERE, BUT WE STILL GOT THAT 10% IN ORDER TO CROSS OVER TO THE 13:30:00 OTHER SIDE. AND SO THE QUESTION, I GUESS, 13:30:05 THAT I HAVE TODAY IS WHAT'S CALLED OF US IN THIS JOSHUA 13:30:11 GENERATION? WHAT DO WE DO IN ORDER TO 13:30:13 FULFILL THAT LEGACY TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS AND THE DEBT 13:30:17 THAT WE OWE TO THOSE WHO ALLOWED US TO BE HERE TODAY? 13:30:22 NOW, I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVER FULLY REPAY THAT DEBT. 13:30:26 I THINK THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE LOOKING BACK, BUT THERE 13:30:33 ARE AT LEAST A FEW SUGGESTIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE IN TERMS OF 13:30:37 HOW WE MIGHT FULFILL THAT ENORMOUS LEGACY. 13:30:43 THE FIRST IS TO RECOGNIZE OUR HISTORY. 13:30:48 JOHN LEWIS TALKED ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY, BUT I WORRY 13:30:52 SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WE COME DOWN TO 13:30:57 MARCH EVERY YEAR ONCE A YEAR. WE OCCASIONALLY CELEBRATE THE 13:31:05 VARIOUS EVENTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 13:31:08 WE CELEBRATE DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY, BUT IT STRIKES ME THAT 13:31:12 UNDERSTANDING OUR HISTORY AND KNOWING WHAT IT MEANS IS AN 13:31:15 EVERYDAY ACTIVITY. YOU NOTICE WHEN MOSES SPOKE TO 13:31:23 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, TELLING THEM THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO BE 13:31:30 GOING WITH THEM, HE LAID OUT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND 13:31:34 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE SAID, BISHOP, WAS HE SAID, "KNOW YOUR 13:31:39 PAST. KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM. 13:31:41 KNOW HOW YOU WERE LED OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:31:45 KNOW HOW PHARAOH REFUSED TO LET YOU GO AND THAT GOD CAME DOWN 13:31:49 AND VISITED ALL MANNER OF PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE UNTIL FINALLY A 13:31:54 PEOPLE WERE FREED." MOSES TOLD THE JOSHUA 13:32:00 GENERATION, DON'T FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM, AND I WORRY 13:32:04 SOMETIMES THAT THE JOSHUA GENERATION IN ITS SUCCESS 13:32:08 FORGETS WHERE IT CAME FROM. THINKS IT DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE 13:32:12 AS MANY SACRIFICES, THINKS THAT THE VERY HEIGHT OF AMBITION IS 13:32:18 TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU CAN, TO DRIVE THE BIGGEST CAR 13:32:23 AND HAVE THE BIGGEST HOUSE AND WEAR A ROLEX WATCH AND GET YOUR 13:32:28 OWN PRIVATE JET, GET SOME OF THAT OPRAH MONEY, AND I THINK 13:32:37 THAT'S A GOOD THING. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH 13:32:40 MAKING MONEY BUT IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THEN YOU KNOW THAT 13:32:44 THERE'S A CERTAIN POVERTY OF AMBITION INVOLVED IN SIMPLY 13:32:50 STRIVING JUST FOR MONEY, MATERIALISM ALONE WILL NOT 13:32:58 FULFILL THE POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 13:33:01 YOU HAVE TO FILL THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 13:33:02 YOU HAVE TO FILL IT WITH THE GOLAN RULE. 13:33:05 YOU GOT TO FILL IT WITH THINKING ABOUT OTHERS, AND IF WE KNOW OUR 13:33:10 HISTORY, THEN WE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE HIGHEST MARK OF 13:33:16 SERVICE. SECOND THING THAT THE JOSHUA 13:33:19 GENERATION NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE PRINCIPLES OF 13:33:23 EQUALITY THAT WERE SET FORTH AND WERE BATTLED FOR HAVE TO BE 13:33:28 FOUGHT EACH AND EVERY DAY, IT IS NOT A ONE-TIME THING. 13:33:34 I WAS REMARKING AT THE UNITY BREAKFAST ON THE FACT THAT THE 13:33:40 SINGLE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONCERN THAT THIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 13:33:46 UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD WITH RESPECT TO 13:33:50 DISCRIMINATION HAS TO DO WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 13:33:53 THAT THEY HAVE BASICALLY SPENT ALL THEIR TIME WORRYING ABOUT 13:33:58 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE GIVEN A 13:34:01 LITTLE BREAK TO YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANICS 13:34:06 TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE TOO. 13:34:08 I HAD A SCHOOL IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THAT IT SET UP A 13:34:11 PROGRAM FOR Ph.D.s IN MATH AND SCIENCE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, 13:34:16 AND THE REASON THEY HAD SET IT UP IS BECAUSE WE ONLY HAD LESS 13:34:21 THAN 1% OF THE Ph.D.s, DOCTOR, IN SCIENCE AND MATH GO TO 13:34:27 AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE COMPETING IN A 13:34:30 GLOBAL ECONOMY -- WHEN WE'RE NOT JUST COMPETING AGAINST FOLKS IN 13:34:36 NORTH CAROLINA OR FLORIDA BUT IN CHINA AND INDIA AND WE NEED MATH 13:34:40 AND SCIENCE MAJORS, THIS UNIVERSITY THOUGHT THAT THIS 13:34:43 MIGHT BE A NICE THING TO DO, AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WROTE 13:34:46 THEM A LETTER SAYING WE ARE GOING TO THREATEN TO SUE YOU FOR 13:34:50 REVERSE DISCRIMINATION UNLESS YOU CEASE THIS PROGRAM, AND IT 13:34:56 REMINDS US THAT WE STILL GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO, AND THAT THE 13:35:02 BASIC ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS, THE 13:35:07 INJUSTICE THAT STILL EXISTS WITHIN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 13:35:11 SYSTEM, THE DISPARITY IN TERMS OF HOW PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN 13:35:17 THIS COUNTRY CONTINUES. IT HAS GOTTEN BETTER, AND WE 13:35:21 SHOULD NEVER DENY THAT IT'S GOTTEN BETTER, BUT WE SHOULDN'T 13:35:25 FORGET THAT BETTER IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, THAT UNTIL WE'VE GOT 13:35:30 ABSOLUTE EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY IN TERMS OF PEOPLE BEING 13:35:33 TREATED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR COLOR OR THEIR GENDER THAT THAT 13:35:37 IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON AND THE 13:35:42 JOSHUA GENERATION HAS A SIGNIFICANT TASK IN MAKING THAT 13:35:45 HAPPEN. THIRD THING, WE'VE GOT TO 13:35:51 RECOGNIZE THAT WE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, BUT WE'VE STILL 13:35:55 GOT A LOT OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH. 13:35:59 WE'VE GOT 46 -- 46 MILLION PEOPLE UNINSURED IN THIS COUNTRY 13:36:06 DESPITE SPENDING MORE MONEY ON HEALTH CARE THAN ANY NATION ON 13:36:08 EARTH. MAKES NO SENSE. 13:36:13 AS CONSEQUENCE WE'VE GOT WHAT'S KNOWN AS A HEALTH CARE DISPARITY 13:36:19 IN THIS NATION BECAUSE MANY OF THE UNINSURED ARE 13:36:23 AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR LATINO. LIFE EXPECTANCY IS LOWER, ALMOST 13:36:27 EVERY DISEASE IS HIGHER WITHIN MINORITY COMMUNITIES. 13:36:32 THE HEALTH CARE GAME. BLACKS ARE LESS LIKELY IN THEIR 13:36:35 SCHOOLS TO HAVE ADEQUATE FUNDING. 13:36:39 WE HAVE LESS QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:43 WE HAVE FEWER TEXTBOOKS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:47 WE GOT IN SOME SCHOOLS RATS OUTNUMBERING COMPUTERS. 13:36:52 THAT'S CALLED THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:36:55 YOU GOT A HEALTH CARE GAP. YOU'VE GOT AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:37:02 YOU'VE GOT KATRINA STILL UNDONE. WENT DUNN TO NEW ORLEANS THREE 13:37:11 WEEKS AGO. STILL LOOKS BOMBED OUT. 13:37:13 STILL NOT REBUILT. WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED, THE FEDERAL 13:37:19 GOVERNMENT HAS A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF GRANTS TO HELP REBUILD. 13:37:23 THEY WAIVED ANY REQUIREMENT THAT MANHATTAN WOULD HAVE TO PAY 10% 13:37:27 OF THE COST OF REBUILDING. WHEN HURRICANE FLORIDA -- 13:37:32 HURRICANE ANDREWS HAPPENED IN FLORIDA, 10% REQUIREMENT, THEY 13:37:36 WAIVED IT BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT SOME DISASTERS 13:37:39 ARE SO DEVASTATING THAT WE CAN'T EXPECT A COMMUNITY TO REBUILD. 13:37:46 NEW ORLEANS, THE LARGEST NATURAL CATASTROPHE IN OUR HISTORY, THE 13:37:52 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS, WHERE IS YOUR 10%? 13:37:58 THERE'S AN EMPATHY GAP. THERE'S A GAP IN TERMS OF 13:38:04 SYMPATHIZING FOR THOSE FOLKS IN NEW ORLEANS AS BAD AS 13:38:07 SYMPATHIZING WITH FOLKS ELSEWHERE. 13:38:09 IT'S NOT A GAP THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FELT BECAUSE WE SAW HOW 13:38:13 THEY RESPONDED. BUT SOMEHOW OUR GOVERNMENT 13:38:17 DIDN'T RESPOND WITH THAT SAME SENSE OF COMPASSION AND THAT 13:38:21 SAME SENSE OF KINDNESS. AND HERE'S THE WORST PART, THE 13:38:27 TRAGEDY IN NEW ORLEANS HAPPENED WELL BEFORE THE HURRICANE 13:38:32 STRUCK. BECAUSE MANY OF THOSE 13:38:34 COMMUNITIES THERE WERE SO MANY YOUNG MEN IN PRISON, SO MANY 13:38:38 KIDS DROPPING OUT, SO LITTLE HOPE, A HOPE GAP, A HOPE GAP 13:38:42 THAT STILL PERVADES TOO MANY COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE 13:38:45 COUNTRY AND RIGHT HERE IN ALABAMA. 13:38:49 SO THE QUESTION IS THEN, WHAT ARE WE THE JOSHUA GENERATION 13:38:53 DOING TO CLOSE THOSE GAPS? ARE WE DOING EVERY SINGLE THING 13:38:58 THAT WE CAN DO IN CONGRESS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT EARLY 13:39:02 EDUCATION IS ADEQUATELY FUNDED AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE 13:39:06 RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE SO IF SOMEBODY WORKS EACH AND EVERY 13:39:10 DAY THEY CAN HAVE SOME DIGNITY AND RESPECT? 13:39:12 ARE WE ENSURING IF SOMEBODY LOSES A JOB THAT THEY'RE GETTING 13:39:16 RETRAINED AND THAT IF THEY'VE LOST THEIR HEALTH CARE AND THEIR 13:39:21 PENSION THAT SOMEBODY IS THERE TO HELP THEM GET BACK ON THEIR 13:39:24 FEET? ARE WE MAKING SURE WE'RE GIVING 13:39:25 A SECOND CHANCE TO THOSE WHO HAVE STRAYED AND GONE TO PRISON 13:39:29 BUT WANT TO START A NEW LIFE? GOVERNMENT ALONE CAN'T SOLVE ALL 13:39:37 THOSE PROBLEMS, BUT GOVERNMENT CAN HELP, AND IT'S THE 13:39:41 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE 13:39:48 A GOVERNMENT AS RESPONSIBLE AS THE NEED EXISTS ALL ACROSS 13:39:52 AMERICA BUT THAT BRINGS ME TO ONE OTHER POINT THOUGH, JOSHUA 13:39:56 GENERATION, AND THAT IS THIS, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ENOUGH 13:40:01 JUST TO ASK WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR US, IT'S IMPORTANT 13:40:05 FOR US TO ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OURSELVES. 13:40:10 YET ONE OF THE SIGNATURE ASPECTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS 13:40:15 THE DEGREE OF DISCIPLINE AND FORTITUDE THAT WAS INSTILLED IN 13:40:21 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED. IMAGINE YOUNG PEOPLE, 16, 17, 13:40:29 20, 21 BACK STRAIGHT, EYES CLEAR, SUIT AND TIE SITTING DOWN 13:40:37 AT A LUNCH COUNTER KNOW BE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SPILL MILK 13:40:40 ON YOU BUT YOU HAVE THE DISCIPLINE TO UNDERSTAND THAT 13:40:43 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RETALIATE BECAUSE IN SHOWING THE WORLD HOW 13:40:48 DISCIPLINED WE WERE AS A PEOPLE, WE WERE ABLE TO WIN OVER THE 13:40:53 CONSCIENCE OF A NATION. I CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN THAT WE 13:41:00 HAVE INSTILLED THAT SAME SENSE OF MORAL CLARITY AND PURPOSE IN 13:41:05 THIS GENERATION. BISHOP, SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE 13:41:08 WE'VE LOST IT A LITTLE BIT. YOU KNOW, I'M FIGHTING TO MAKE 13:41:14 SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE ADEQUATELY FUNDED. 13:41:16 ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE HAVE INEQUITIES IN HOW SCHOOLS ARE 13:41:20 FUNDED BECAUSE IT'S RELIED ON PROPERTY TAXES AND PEOPLE WHO 13:41:23 HAPPEN TO BE BORN IN WEALTHY DISTRICTS, SOMEHOW THEY GET 13:41:28 BETTER SCHOOLS THAN FOLKS WHO ARE BORN IN POOR DISTRICTS AND 13:41:32 THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. 13:41:34 THAT'S NOT THE AMERICAN WAY, BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, EVEN AS I FIGHT 13:41:38 ON BEHALF OF MORE EDUCATION FUNDING, MORE EQUITY, I HAVE TO 13:41:42 ALSO SAY THAT IF PARENTS DON'T TURN OFF THE TELEVISION SET WHEN 13:41:47 THE CHILD COMES HOME FROM SCHOOL, AND MAKE SURE THEY SIT 13:41:52 DOWN AND DO THEIR HOMEWORK AND GO TALK TO THE TEACHERS AND FIND 13:41:56 OUT HOW THEY'RE DOING AND IF WE DON'T START INSTILLING A SENSE 13:41:59 IN OUR YOUNG CHILDREN, THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED 13:42:04 ABOUT IN EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, I DON'T KNOW WHO 13:42:07 CAUGHT THEM THAT READING AND WRITING AND CONJUGATING YOUR 13:42:11 VERBS WAS ACTING WHITE, WE'VE GOT TO GET OVER THAT MENTALITY. 13:42:14 WE'VE GOT TO DO FOR OURSEOURSEL. THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE MOSES 13:42:19 GENERATION TEACHES US, NOT SAYING TO OURSELVES WE CAN'T DO 13:42:23 SOMETHING BUT TELLING OURSELVES THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE. 13:42:27 WE CAN DO THAT. WE'VE GOT POWER IN OUR HANDS. 13:42:36 FOLKS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR GOVERNMENT. 13:42:39 I UNDERSTAND THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE COMPLAINING ABOUT. 13:42:45 I'M IN WASHINGTON. I SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 13:42:48 I SEE THOSE POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES HAVE SNUCK BACK 13:42:52 IN THERE. THAT THEY'RE WRITING THE ENERGY 13:42:55 BILLS AND THE DRUG LAWS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT. 13:42:58 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, I ALSO KNOW THAT IF COUSIN POOKIE WOULD 13:43:05 VOTE, IF UNCLE JETHRO WOULD GET OFF THE COUCH AND STOP WATCHING 13:43:12 "SPORTSCENTER" AND GO REGISTER SOME FOLKS AND GO TO THE POLLS, 13:43:15 WE MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF POLITICS. 13:43:18 THAT'S WHAT THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US. 13:43:23 KICK OFF YOUR BEDROOM SLIPPERS, PUT ON YOUR MARCHING SHOES, GO 13:43:28 DO SOME POLITICS, CHANGE THIS COUNTRY. 13:43:30 THAT'S WHAT THEY TEACH US. WE'VE GOT TOO MANY CHILDREN IN 13:43:39 POVERTY IN THIS COUNTRY, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ASHAMED. 13:43:43 BUT DON'T TELL ME EARTH DOESN'T HAVE A LITTLE TO DO WITH THE 13:43:46 FACT THAT WE GOT TOO MANY DADDIES NOT ACTING LIKE DADDIES. 13:43:53 I THINK THAT -- THINK THAT FATHERHOOD ENDS AT CONCEPTION, I 13:43:59 KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE MY FATHER WASN'T AROUND 13:44:02 WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND I STRUGGLED. 13:44:07 THOSE OF YOU WHO READ MY BOOK KNOW. 13:44:09 I WENT THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT TIMES. 13:44:11 I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A STRONG MALE FIGURE 13:44:15 IN THE HOUSE, WHICH IS WHY THE HARDEST THING ABOUT ME BEING IN 13:44:19 POLITICS SOMETIMES IS NOT BEING HOME AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE AND I'M 13:44:22 JUST BLESSED THAT I'VE GOT SUCH A WONDERFUL WIFE AT HOME TO HOLD 13:44:26 THINGS TOGETHER, BUT DON'T TELL ME THAT WE CAN'T DO BETTER BY 13:44:36 OUR CHILDREN, THAT WE CAN'T TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE 13:44:40 WE'RE INSTILLING IN THEM THE VALUES AND THE IDEAS THAT THE 13:44:43 MOSES GENERATION TAUGHT US ABOUT SACRIFICE AND DIGNITY AND 13:44:47 HONESTY AND HARD WORK AND DISCIPLINE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. 13:44:51 THAT COMES FROM US. WE'VE GOT TO TRANSMIT THAT TO 13:44:56 THE NEXT GENERATION AND I GUESS THE POINT THAT I'M MAKE 13:44:58 SOMETHING THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WASN'T JUST A FIGHT 13:45:03 AGAINST THE OPPRESSOR, IT WAS ALSO A FIGHT AGAINST THE 13:45:06 OPPRESSOR IN EACH OF US. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S EASY TO 13:45:12 JUST POINT AT SOMEBODY ELSE AND SAY, IT'S THERE THEIR FAULT BUT 13:45:17 OPPRESSION HAS A WAY OF CREEPING INTO YOU, REVEREND. 13:45:19 IT HAS A WAY OF STUNTING YOURSELF. 13:45:23 YOU START TELLING YOURSELF, BISHOP, I CAN'T DO SOMETHING. 13:45:27 I CAN'T READ, I CAN'T -- I CAN'T GO TO COLLEGE. 13:45:30 I CAN'T START A BUSINESS. I CAN'T RUN FOR CONGRESS. 13:45:33 I CAN'T RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, PEOPLE START TELLING YOU CAN'T 13:45:38 DO SOMETHING, AFTER A WHILE, YOU TART BELIEVING IT. 13:45:44 AND PART OF WHAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS ABOUT WAS 13:45:47 RECOGNIZING THAT WE HAVE TO TRANSFORM OURSELVES IN ORDER TO 13:45:50 TRANSFORM THE WORLD. MAHATMA GANDHI, THE GREAT HERO 13:45:57 OF DR. KING AND THE PERSON WHO HELPED CREATE THE NONVIOLENT 13:46:03 MOVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD, HE ONCE SAID THAT "YOU CAN'T CHANGE 13:46:07 THE WORLD IF YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED. 13:46:10 IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, THE CHANGE HAS TO HAPPEN WITH 13:46:13 YOU FIRST." AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE 13:46:19 GREATEST AND MOST HONORABLE OF GENERATIONS HAS TAUGHT US. 13:46:26 BUT THE FINAL THING THAT I THINK THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US 13:46:29 IS TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE DO WHAT WE DO BECAUSE GOD IS 13:46:35 WITH US. YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES WAS FIRST 13:46:41 CALLED TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT OF THE PROMISED LAND, HE SAID, "I DON'T 13:46:45 THINK I CAN DO IT, LORD. I DON'T SPEAK LIKE REVEREND 13:46:49 LOWERY. I DON'T -- I DON'T FEEL BRAVE 13:46:53 AND COURAGEOUS" AND THE LORD SAID "I WILL BE WITH YOU. 13:46:59 THROW DOWN THAT ROD, PICK IT BACK UP. 13:47:03 I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO." 13:47:06 AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:47:14 JOSHUA SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M SCARED. 13:47:17 I'M NOT SURE THAT I AM UP TO THE CHALLENGE, AND THE LORD SAID TO 13:47:25 HIM, EVERY PLACE THAT THE SOUL OF YOUR FOOT WILL TREAD UPON, I 13:47:31 HAVE GIVEN YOU. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I 13:47:36 AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:47:43 THAT'S A PRAYER FOR A JOURNEY, A PRAYER THAT KEPT A WOMAN IN HER 13:47:47 SEAT WHEN THE BUS DRIVER TOLD HER TO GET UP, A PRAYER THAT LED 13:47:50 NINE CHILDREN THROUGH THE DOORS OF A LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL, A 13:47:53 PRAYER THAT CARRIED OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER A BRIDGE RIGHT 13:47:57 HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE WHEN 13:48:02 YOU SEE ROW AND ROW OF STATE TROOPER FACING YOU, YOU SEE THE 13:48:07 HORSES AND THE TEAR GAS, HOW ELSE CAN YOU WALK TOWARDS THEM 13:48:10 UNARMED AND UNAFRAID? WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU AND 13:48:13 START BEATING YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR NEIGHBORS HOW ELSE CAN YOU 13:48:17 SIMPLY KNEEL DOWN, BOW YOUR HEAD AND ASK THE LORD FOR SALVATION 13:48:20 WHEN YOU SEE HEADS GASHED OPEN AND EYES BURNING AND LITTLE 13:48:24 CHILDREN LYING HURT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WHEN YOU'RE JOHN 13:48:28 LEWIS AND YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE ON 13:48:31 SUNDAY HOW DO YOU WAKE UP ON MONDAY AND KEEP ON MARCHING? 13:48:34 BE STRONG, AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. 13:48:41 WE'VE COME A LONG WAY IN THIS JOURNEY, BUT WE STILL HAVE A 13:48:46 LONG WAY TO TRAVEL. WE TRAVEL BECAUSE GOD WAS WITH 13:48:52 US. IT'S NOT HOW FAR WE'VE COME THIS 13:48:55 FAR ON OUR JOURNEY. THAT BRIDGE OUTSIDE WAS CROSSED 13:48:58 BY BLACKS AND WHITES, NORTHERNERS AND SOUTHERNERS, 13:49:01 TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN, SHOPKEEPERS AND JANITORS, A 13:49:04 BELOVED COMMUNITY OF GOD'S CHILDREN WILLING TO TAKE THOSE 13:49:07 STEPS TOGETHER. BUT IT WAS LEFT TO THE JOSHUAS 13:49:12 TO FINISH THE JOURNEY MOSES HAD BEGUN AND TODAY WE'RE CALLED TO 13:49:15 BE THE JOSHUAS OF OUR TIME, TO BE THE GENERATION THAT FINDS OUR 13:49:19 WAY ACROSS THIS RIVER, THERE WILL BE DAYS WHEN THE WATER 13:49:23 SEEMS WIDE AND THE JOURNEY TOO FAR, BUT IN THOSE MOMENTS WE 13:49:27 MUST REMEMBER THAT THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, THERE HAS BEEN A 13:49:31 RUNNING THREAD OF IDEALS THAT HAVE GUIDED OUR TRAVELS AND 13:49:35 PUSHED US FORWARD EVEN WHEN THEY'RE JUST BEYOND OUR REACH, 13:49:40 LIBERTY IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY, EQUALITY IN THE FACE OF BITTER 13:49:44 INJUSTICE, OPPORTUNITY WHERE THERE WAS NONE AND HOPE OVER THE 13:49:46 MOST CRUSHING DE SPARE, THOSE IDEALS, THOSE VALUES, THEY 13:49:50 BECKON US STILL, AND WHEN WE HAVE OUR DOUBTS AND OUR FEARS, 13:49:53 JUST LIKE JOSHUA DID, WHEN THE ROAD LOOKS TOO LONG AND IT SEEMS 13:49:57 LIKE WE MAY LOSE OUR WAY, REMEMBER WHAT THESE PEOPLE DID 13:50:01 ON THAT BRIDGE, KEEPING YOUR H 13:50:07 HEART, THE PRAYER OF THAT JOURNEY, THE PRAYER THAT GOD 13:50:09 GAVE TO JOSHUA, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF 13:50:16 INJUSTICE, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF PREJUDICE 13:50:21 AND HATRED, IN THE FACE OF JOBLESSNESS AND HELPLESSNESS AND 13:50:28 HOPELESSNESS, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:50:30 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED TODAY IN THE FACE 13:50:34 OF OUR DOUBTS AND FEARS, IN THE FACE OF SKEPTICISM, IN THE FACE 13:50:39 OF CYNICISM, IN THE FACE OF A MIGHTY RIVER, BE STRONG AND HAVE 13:50:44 COURAGE AND LET US CROSS OVER THAT PROMISED LAND TOGETHER. 13:50:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY. GOD BLESS YOU. END SENATOR BARACK OBAMA

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[VOTE 2008 / OBAMA AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA] [SELMA, ALA USA] FTG OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-ILL) AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA 12:28:32 Obama standing 12:29:01 Obama sits back down 12:41:55 Obama receiving a standing ovation 12:42:08 Obama smiling and laughing 12:46:07 Obama standing behind preacher 12:46:21 Obama clapping and sitting back down 12:52:41 Obama clapping 13:16:19 I want to start by saying I want to thank him for his support . 13:17:14 Somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage . 13:17:39 To all the distinguished guests and clergy. I'm not sure I'm going to thank the . because he stole the show . nervous about following so many great clergy men .. 13:18:31 Thanks you very much for letting me speak . after I announced I was running for president of the united states . drawing from script 13:19:24 I acknowledge there is a certain amount of presumptuousness with this . his son is now preacher at my church . I got a letter giving me encouragement telling me how proud he was and reminded me to stay true to my ideals . tell them to look at the story of Joshua . 13:20:37 So I just want to talk a little bit about . we are in the presence today of a lot of Moses' . people who battle on behalf of all of America . endured taunts and torments . gave full measure of their devotion . who said that some are atop and some are at the bottom and that's how it will always be . 13:22:53 They wondered through a desert and knowing that god was with them . and it's because they marched that the next generation has not been as bloodied . it's because they marched that I stand here today . 13:23:54 Because not only is my career the result of the men and women we honor here today, my very existence might not have happened . you don't understand, my grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya . 13:25:24 Yet something happened here in Selma Alabama . 13:26:25 Worried folks in the white house, we're fighting communism . the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift . this young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets . 13:27:46 Don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma Alabama . I'm here because ya'll sacrificed or me . I stand on your shoulders . 13:32:36 Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence, you have to fill that . second thing is the principals of equality is not a one sided thing . 13:33:43 They have basically spent all their time worrying about affirmative action . reminds us we still have a lot work to do . we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough . that is something that we have got to continue to work on 13:35:40 Third thing, we fought for civil rights, but we still have a lot of economic rights to work for . we've got what's know as a health care disparity . life expectancy is lower in the minorities . we have fewer teachers and text books in the schools . health care gap and achievement gap 13:37:00 New Orleans still looks bombed out . when 9-11 happened, they waived any requirement . because they understood . federal government says where's your 10%. There's an empathy gap . 13:38:02 Not a gap the American people felt . the government was the problem . because many of those communities . hope gap . 13:38:40 The question is, what are we the Joshua generation doing to close the gap .. Are we ensuring . and giving a second chance 13:39:29 Government can help . make sure the government is responsive . it's enough to ask with the government can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves . 13:41:24 I tell you what, even as I fight for more education funding . if parents don't turn off the television set . it we don't instill a sense in our young children . we've got to get over that mentality . 13:42:14 Telling ourselves we can achieve . we can do that. We can achieve. 13:42:37 I'm in Washington, I see what's going on . I also know that cousin poky wasn't voting . kick off your marching slippers, put on your marching shoes . 13:43:44 They think that fatherhood ends at conception . I went through some difficult times . 13:44:53 It wasn't just a fight against the oppressor, it was a fight against the oppressor in all of us . it has a way of stunting yourself . part of what the civil rights movement was realizing you have to change more then just ourselves . 13:46:04 That is something that the greatest and the most honorable of generations has taught us . we do what we do because God is with us . 13:46:56 The same thing happened with the Joshua generation . not sure I can do this . be strong and have courage . that's a prayer for a journey . 13:48:31 We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to go . that bridge was crossed . and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our generation .. Liberty in the face of injustice . 13:49:56 Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey . be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice . hopelessness 13:50:29 In the face of a mighty river, be strong and have courage and lets cross that bridge together, thank you 13:50:55 Obama embracing various members of the clergy on stage 13:51:37 Obama sits back down 13:56:42 Obama head down in prayer and song SEGMENT [1] 2007/03/04 ************************************************ SENATOR BARACK OBAMA SPEAKING AT THE BROWN CHAPEL IN SELMA, ALABAMA 13:16:08 SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: I MUST BEGIN BECAUSE AT THE 13:16:16 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS MORNING, I WAS SAVING HIM FOR LAST AND THE 13:16:20 LIST OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WAS SO LONG, I LEFT HIM OUT AFTER THAT 13:16:25 INTRODUCTION, SO I'M GOING TO START BY SAYING HOW MUCH I 13:16:29 APPRECIATE THE FRIENDSHIP AND THE SUPPORT AND THE OUTSTANDING 13:16:33 WORK THAT HE DOES EACH AND EVERY DAY, NOT JUST IN CAPITOL HILL 13:16:39 BUT ALSO BACK HERE IN THE DISTRICT, PLEASE GIVE A WARM 13:16:42 ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN ARTUR DAVIS. 13:16:45 [ APPLAUSE ] IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE, 13:16:58 REVEREND JACKSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TO THE FAMILY OF BROWN 13:17:04 AM & E AND BISHOP KIRKLAND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL 13:17:09 MESSAGE AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE OF THE 13:17:16 GREAT HEROS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND AMERICAN LIFE, SOMEBODY WHO 13:17:29 CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF DECENCY AND COURAGE, SOMEBODY WHO I HAVE 13:17:35 ADMIRED ALL MY LIFE AND WERE IT NOT FOR HIM I'M NOT SURE I WOULD 13:17:41 BE HERE TODAY, CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, I'M THANKFUL TO HIM. 13:17:44 [ APPLAUSE ] TO ALL THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS 13:17:51 AND CLERGY, I'M NOT SURE I'M GOING TO THANK REVEREND LOWERY 13:17:56 BECAUSE HE STOLE THE SHOW. [ LAUGHTER ] 13:18:06 I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER I KNOW WE'VE GOT C.T. VIVIAN AND ALL 13:18:11 THIS. WHEN YOU HAVE TO SPEAK IN FRONT 13:18:12 OF SOMEBODY WHO MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID WAS THE GREATEST 13:18:15 PREACHER HE EVER HEARD THEN YOU GOT SOME PROBLEMS, AND I'M A 13:18:19 LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT FOLLOWING SO MANY GREAT PREACHERS. 13:18:28 BUT I AM HOPING THAT THE SPIRIT MOVES ME. 13:18:31 TO ALL MY CONGRESSIONAL COLLEAGUES AND OTHER ELECTED 13:18:34 OFFICIALS WERE HERE, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO HAVE GIVEN ME SUCH A 13:18:38 WARM WELCOME, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TO 13:18:42 YOU HERE TODAY. YOU KNOW, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, 13:18:50 AFTER I HAD ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF 13:18:55 THE UNITED STATES, I STOOD IN FRONT OF THE OLD STATE CAPITOL 13:18:59 IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DELIVERED HIS 13:19:05 SPEECH DECLARING DASH DRAWING FROM SCRIPTURE THAT A HOUSE 13:19:09 DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF COULD NOT STAND, AND I STOOD AND I 13:19:13 ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY, AND THERE WERE A 13:19:17 LOT OF COMMENTATORS AS THEY ARE PRONE TO DO WHO QUESTIONED THE 13:19:24 AUDACITY OF A YOUNG MAN LIKE MYSELF, HADN'T BEEN IN 13:19:29 WASHINGTON TOO LONG AND I ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE'S A 13:19:34 CERTAIN PRESUMPTUOUSNESS ABOUT THIS, BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM A 13:19:40 FRIEND OF SOME OF YOURS NAMED REVEREND OTIS MALSH JR. IN 13:19:49 CLEVELAND, ILLINOIS, AND HIS SON, OTIS MOSS III IS NOW 13:19:54 PASTORING AT MY CHURCH, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST AND I 13:19:59 MUST SEND GREETINGS FROM OUR SENIOR PASTOR DR. INJURE MYA A. 13:20:05 WRIGHT JR., BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM REVEREND OTIS MOSS JR. 13:20:10 GIVING ME ENCOURAGEMENT AND SAYING HOW PROUD HE WAS THAT I 13:20:15 HAD ANNOUNCED, AND ENCOURAGING ME TO STAY TRUE TO MY IDEALS AND 13:20:23 MY VALUES AND NOT TO BE FEARFUL AND HE SAID IF THERE'S SOME 13:20:29 FOLKS OUT THERE WHO ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT YOU 13:20:34 SHOULD RUN, JUST TELL THEM TO LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOSHUA. 13:20:43 BECAUSE YOU'RE PART OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:20:47 AND SO I JUST WANT TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT MOSES AND AARON AND 13:20:53 JOSHUA. BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE 13:21:00 TODAY OF A LOT OF MOSESS. WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE TODAY OF 13:21:08 GIANTS WHOSE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON, PEOPLE WHO BATTLED ON 13:21:17 BEHALF, NOT JUST OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, BUT ON BEHALF 13:21:21 OF ALL OF AMERICA, THAT BATTLED FOR AMERICA'S SOUL, THAT SHED 13:21:31 BLOOD, THAT ENDURED TAUNTS AND TORMENT AND IN SOME CASES GAVE 13:21:37 THE FULL MEASURE OF THEIR DEVOTION. 13:21:41 LIKE MOSES, THEY CHALLENGED FARROW, THE PRINCES AND POWERS, 13:21:51 WHO SAID THAT SOME ARE ATOP AND OTHERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM, AND 13:21:57 THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE. 13:22:00 THERE WERE PEOPLE LIKE ANNA COOPER AND MARIE FOSTER AND 13:22:05 JIMMY LEE JACKSON AND MAURICE OLETT, C.T. VIVIAN, REVEREND 13:22:13 LOWERY, JOHN LEWIS, WHO SAID WE CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, 13:22:19 THAT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE FOR US TOO. 13:22:23 THAT GOD HAS MADE US IN HIS IMAGE, AND THAT WE REJECT THE 13:22:28 NOTION THAT WE WILL FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES BE CONFINED TO A 13:22:33 STATION OF INFERIORITY, THAT WE CAN ASPIRE TO THE HIGHEST OF 13:22:39 HEIGHTS THAT OUR TALENTS CAN BE EXPRESSED TO THEIR FULLEST. 13:22:45 AND SO BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY ENDURED, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY 13:22:50 MARCHED, THEY LED A PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:22:56 THEY TOOK THEM ACROSS A SEA THAT FOLKS THOUGHT COULD NOT BE 13:23:02 PARTED. THEY WANDERED THROUGH A DESERT, 13:23:06 BUT ALWAYS KNOWING THAT GOD WAS WITH THEM AND THAT IF THEY 13:23:11 MAINTAINED THAT TRUST IN GOD, THAT THEY WOULD BE ALL RIGHT. 13:23:17 AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT THE NEXT GENERATION HASN'T 13:23:25 BEEN BLOODED SO MUCH. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT 13:23:28 WE ELECTED COUNCILMEN AND CONGRESSMEN. 13:23:32 IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT WE HAVE ARTUR DAVIS AND KEITH 13:23:37 ELLISON. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I 13:23:39 GOT THE KIND OF EDUCATION I GOT, THAT I GOT A LAW DEGREE AND A 13:23:45 SEAT IN THE ILLINOIS SENATE AND ULTIMATELY IN THE UNITED STATES 13:23:48 SENATE IS BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU HERE 13:23:50 TODAY. AND I WAS MENTIONING AT THE 13:24:02 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS IMPORTANT, MY DEBT IS EVEN GREATER THAN 13:24:05 THAT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS MY CAREER THE RESULT OF THE WORK OF 13:24:13 THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WE HONOR HERE TODAY, MY VERY EXISTENCE 13:24:21 MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SOME OF THE 13:24:24 FOLKS HERE TODAY. I MENTIONED AT THE UNITY 13:24:28 BREAKFAST THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING, WELL, YOU 13:24:31 KNOW, YOUR FATHER WAS FROM AFRICA, YOUR MOTHER, SHE'S A 13:24:35 WHITE WOMAN FROM KANSAS, I'M NOT SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME 13:24:39 EXPERIENCE, AND I TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT. 13:24:41 YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU SEE, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A 13:24:45 COOK TO THE BRITISH IN KENYA, GREW UP IN A SMALL VILLAGE, AND 13:24:52 ALL HIS LIFE THAT'S ALL HE WAS WAS A COOK AND A HOUSEBOY AND 13:24:56 THAT'S WHAT THEY CALLED HIM EVEN WHEN HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD THEY 13:25:00 CALLED HIM A HOUSEBOY. WOULDN'T CALL HIM BY HIS LAST 13:25:05 NAME. CALLED HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME. 13:25:08 SOUND FAMILIAR? AND HE HAD TO CARRY A PASSBOOK 13:25:14 AROUND, BECAUSE AFRICANS IN THEIR OWN LAND IN THEIR OWN 13:25:17 COUNTRY AT THAT TIME BECAUSE IT WAS A BRITISH COLONY COULD NOT 13:25:22 MOVE ABOUT FREELY. THEY COULD ONLY GO WHERE THEY 13:25:25 WERE TOLD TO G THEY COULD ONLY WORK WHERE THEY WERE TOLD TO 13:25:31 WORK, AND YET SOMETHING HAPPENED BACK HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA, 13:25:37 SOMETHING HAPPENED IN BIRMINGHAM THAT SENT OUT WHAT BOBBY KENNEDY 13:25:41 CALLED RIPPLES OF HOPE ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 13:25:44 SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN A BUNCH OF WOMEN DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO 13:25:49 WALK INSTEAD OF RIDE THE BUS AFTER A LONG DAY OF DOING 13:25:53 SOMEBODY ELSE'S LAUNDRY AND LOOKING AFTER SOMEBODY ELSE'S 13:25:55 CHILDREN WHEN MEN WHO HAD Ph.D.s WERE WORKING AS PORTERS DECIDED 13:26:01 THAT'S ENOUGH AND WE'RE GOING TO STAND UP DESPITE THE RISKS FOR 13:26:04 OUR DIGNITY AND I RESPECT THAT CENTER SHOUT ACROSS OCEANS SO 13:26:10 THAT MY GRANDFATHER BEGAN TO IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR 13:26:14 HIS SON AND HIS SON WHO GREW UP HERDING GOATS IN A SMALL VILLAGE 13:26:19 IN AFRICA COULD SUDDENLY SET HIS SIGHTS A LITTLE HIGHER AND 13:26:24 SUDDENLY BELIEVE THAT MAYBE A BLACK MAN IN THIS WORLD HAD A 13:26:29 CHANCE, AND WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA AND BIRMINGHAM 13:26:33 ALSO STIRRED THE CONSCIENCE OF A NATION AND IT WORRIED FOLKS IN 13:26:38 THE WHITE HOUSE WHO SAID WE'RE BATTLING COMMUNISM, HOW ARE WE 13:26:41 GOING TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD IF 13:26:44 RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JOHN, WE'RE NOT OBSERVING THE 13:26:49 IDEALS THAT ARE SET FORTH IN OUR CONSTITUTION? 13:26:52 WE MIGHT BE ACCUSED OF BEING HYPOCRITES SO THE KENNEDYS 13:26:56 DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO DO AN AIRLIFT. 13:26:59 WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT TO AFRICA AND WE'RE GOING TO START 13:27:02 BRINGING YOUNG AFRICANS OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND BRING THEM 13:27:05 SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN WHAT A WONDERFUL 13:27:09 COUNTRY AMERICA IS AND THIS YOUNG MAN NAMED BARACK OBAMA GOT 13:27:13 ONE OF THOSE TICKETS AND CAME OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND HE MET 13:27:20 THIS WOMAN, WHOSE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER HAD 13:27:25 OWNED SLAVES, BUT SHE HAD A DIFFERENT IDEA. 13:27:29 THERE'S SOME GOOD CRAZINESS GOING ON BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AT 13:27:32 EACH OTHER AND THEY DECIDED, WE KNOW THAT IN THE WORLD AS IT HAS 13:27:36 BEEN IT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET TOGETHER AND HAVE 13:27:39 A CHILD, BUT SOMETHING IS STIRRING ACROSS THE COUNTRY 13:27:42 BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA, BECAUSE SOME 13:27:46 FOLKS ARE WILLING TO MARCH ACROSS THE BRIDGE. 13:27:49 AND SO THEY GOT TOGETHER AND BARACK OBAMA JR. WAS BORN. 13:27:55 SO DON'T TELL ME I DON'T HAVE A CLAIM ON SELMA, ALABAMA. 13:28:00 DON'T TELL ME I'M NOT COMING HOME WHEN I COME TO SELMA, 13:28:03 ALABAMA. I'M HERE BECAUSE SOMEBODY 13:28:06 MARCHED FOR OUR FREEDOM. I'M HERE BECAUSE Y'ALL 13:28:11 SACRIFICED FOR ME. I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF 13:28:19 THIS. I THANK THE MOSES GENERATION. 13:28:27 BUT WE GOT TO REMEMBER NOW THAT JOSHUA STILL HAD A JOB TO DO. 13:28:36 AS GREAT AS MOSES WAS, DESPITE ALL THAT HE DID, LEADING A 13:28:44 PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE, HE DIDN'T CROSS OVER THE RIVER TO SEE THE 13:28:51 PROMISED LAND. GOD TOLD HIM YOUR JOB IS DONE, 13:28:55 YOU'LL SEE IT. YOU'LL BE AT THE MOUNTAINTOP, 13:28:58 AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT I'VE PROMISED, WHAT I PROMISED TO 13:29:03 ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB AND I PROMISED TO YOU, YOU CAN SEE 13:29:07 THAT I WILL FULFILL THAT PROMISE. 13:29:10 BUT YOU WON'T GO THERE. WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE IT TO THE 13:29:14 JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS. 13:29:18 THERE'S STILL SOME BATTLES HA NEED TO BE FOUGHT, SOME RIVERS 13:29:21 THAT NEED TO BE CROSSED. LIKE MOSES, THE TASK WAS PASSED 13:29:27 ON TO THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AS DESERVING, MIGHT NOT 13:29:33 HAVE BEEN AS COURAGEOUS FIND THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF THE RISKS 13:29:37 THAT THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT 13:29:41 GRANDPARENTS HAD TAKEN, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY STILL DON'T 13:29:43 HAVE A BURDEN THAT THEY HAVE TO SHOULDER, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE 13:29:47 SOME RESPONSIBILITIES THE PREVIOUS GENERATION, THE MOSES 13:29:51 GENERATION POINTED THE WAY. THEY TOOK US 90% OF THE WAY 13:29:55 THERE, BUT WE STILL GOT THAT 10% IN ORDER TO CROSS OVER TO THE 13:30:00 OTHER SIDE. AND SO THE QUESTION, I GUESS, 13:30:05 THAT I HAVE TODAY IS WHAT'S CALLED OF US IN THIS JOSHUA 13:30:11 GENERATION? WHAT DO WE DO IN ORDER TO 13:30:13 FULFILL THAT LEGACY TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS AND THE DEBT 13:30:17 THAT WE OWE TO THOSE WHO ALLOWED US TO BE HERE TODAY? 13:30:22 NOW, I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVER FULLY REPAY THAT DEBT. 13:30:26 I THINK THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE LOOKING BACK, BUT THERE 13:30:33 ARE AT LEAST A FEW SUGGESTIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE IN TERMS OF 13:30:37 HOW WE MIGHT FULFILL THAT ENORMOUS LEGACY. 13:30:43 THE FIRST IS TO RECOGNIZE OUR HISTORY. 13:30:48 JOHN LEWIS TALKED ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY, BUT I WORRY 13:30:52 SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WE COME DOWN TO 13:30:57 MARCH EVERY YEAR ONCE A YEAR. WE OCCASIONALLY CELEBRATE THE 13:31:05 VARIOUS EVENTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 13:31:08 WE CELEBRATE DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY, BUT IT STRIKES ME THAT 13:31:12 UNDERSTANDING OUR HISTORY AND KNOWING WHAT IT MEANS IS AN 13:31:15 EVERYDAY ACTIVITY. YOU NOTICE WHEN MOSES SPOKE TO 13:31:23 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, TELLING THEM THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO BE 13:31:30 GOING WITH THEM, HE LAID OUT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND 13:31:34 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE SAID, BISHOP, WAS HE SAID, "KNOW YOUR 13:31:39 PAST. KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM. 13:31:41 KNOW HOW YOU WERE LED OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:31:45 KNOW HOW PHARAOH REFUSED TO LET YOU GO AND THAT GOD CAME DOWN 13:31:49 AND VISITED ALL MANNER OF PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE UNTIL FINALLY A 13:31:54 PEOPLE WERE FREED." MOSES TOLD THE JOSHUA 13:32:00 GENERATION, DON'T FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM, AND I WORRY 13:32:04 SOMETIMES THAT THE JOSHUA GENERATION IN ITS SUCCESS 13:32:08 FORGETS WHERE IT CAME FROM. THINKS IT DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE 13:32:12 AS MANY SACRIFICES, THINKS THAT THE VERY HEIGHT OF AMBITION IS 13:32:18 TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU CAN, TO DRIVE THE BIGGEST CAR 13:32:23 AND HAVE THE BIGGEST HOUSE AND WEAR A ROLEX WATCH AND GET YOUR 13:32:28 OWN PRIVATE JET, GET SOME OF THAT OPRAH MONEY, AND I THINK 13:32:37 THAT'S A GOOD THING. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH 13:32:40 MAKING MONEY BUT IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THEN YOU KNOW THAT 13:32:44 THERE'S A CERTAIN POVERTY OF AMBITION INVOLVED IN SIMPLY 13:32:50 STRIVING JUST FOR MONEY, MATERIALISM ALONE WILL NOT 13:32:58 FULFILL THE POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 13:33:01 YOU HAVE TO FILL THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 13:33:02 YOU HAVE TO FILL IT WITH THE GOLAN RULE. 13:33:05 YOU GOT TO FILL IT WITH THINKING ABOUT OTHERS, AND IF WE KNOW OUR 13:33:10 HISTORY, THEN WE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE HIGHEST MARK OF 13:33:16 SERVICE. SECOND THING THAT THE JOSHUA 13:33:19 GENERATION NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE PRINCIPLES OF 13:33:23 EQUALITY THAT WERE SET FORTH AND WERE BATTLED FOR HAVE TO BE 13:33:28 FOUGHT EACH AND EVERY DAY, IT IS NOT A ONE-TIME THING. 13:33:34 I WAS REMARKING AT THE UNITY BREAKFAST ON THE FACT THAT THE 13:33:40 SINGLE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONCERN THAT THIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 13:33:46 UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD WITH RESPECT TO 13:33:50 DISCRIMINATION HAS TO DO WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 13:33:53 THAT THEY HAVE BASICALLY SPENT ALL THEIR TIME WORRYING ABOUT 13:33:58 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE GIVEN A 13:34:01 LITTLE BREAK TO YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANICS 13:34:06 TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE TOO. 13:34:08 I HAD A SCHOOL IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THAT IT SET UP A 13:34:11 PROGRAM FOR Ph.D.s IN MATH AND SCIENCE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, 13:34:16 AND THE REASON THEY HAD SET IT UP IS BECAUSE WE ONLY HAD LESS 13:34:21 THAN 1% OF THE Ph.D.s, DOCTOR, IN SCIENCE AND MATH GO TO 13:34:27 AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE COMPETING IN A 13:34:30 GLOBAL ECONOMY -- WHEN WE'RE NOT JUST COMPETING AGAINST FOLKS IN 13:34:36 NORTH CAROLINA OR FLORIDA BUT IN CHINA AND INDIA AND WE NEED MATH 13:34:40 AND SCIENCE MAJORS, THIS UNIVERSITY THOUGHT THAT THIS 13:34:43 MIGHT BE A NICE THING TO DO, AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WROTE 13:34:46 THEM A LETTER SAYING WE ARE GOING TO THREATEN TO SUE YOU FOR 13:34:50 REVERSE DISCRIMINATION UNLESS YOU CEASE THIS PROGRAM, AND IT 13:34:56 REMINDS US THAT WE STILL GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO, AND THAT THE 13:35:02 BASIC ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS, THE 13:35:07 INJUSTICE THAT STILL EXISTS WITHIN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 13:35:11 SYSTEM, THE DISPARITY IN TERMS OF HOW PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN 13:35:17 THIS COUNTRY CONTINUES. IT HAS GOTTEN BETTER, AND WE 13:35:21 SHOULD NEVER DENY THAT IT'S GOTTEN BETTER, BUT WE SHOULDN'T 13:35:25 FORGET THAT BETTER IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, THAT UNTIL WE'VE GOT 13:35:30 ABSOLUTE EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY IN TERMS OF PEOPLE BEING 13:35:33 TREATED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR COLOR OR THEIR GENDER THAT THAT 13:35:37 IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON AND THE 13:35:42 JOSHUA GENERATION HAS A SIGNIFICANT TASK IN MAKING THAT 13:35:45 HAPPEN. THIRD THING, WE'VE GOT TO 13:35:51 RECOGNIZE THAT WE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, BUT WE'VE STILL 13:35:55 GOT A LOT OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH. 13:35:59 WE'VE GOT 46 -- 46 MILLION PEOPLE UNINSURED IN THIS COUNTRY 13:36:06 DESPITE SPENDING MORE MONEY ON HEALTH CARE THAN ANY NATION ON 13:36:08 EARTH. MAKES NO SENSE. 13:36:13 AS CONSEQUENCE WE'VE GOT WHAT'S KNOWN AS A HEALTH CARE DISPARITY 13:36:19 IN THIS NATION BECAUSE MANY OF THE UNINSURED ARE 13:36:23 AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR LATINO. LIFE EXPECTANCY IS LOWER, ALMOST 13:36:27 EVERY DISEASE IS HIGHER WITHIN MINORITY COMMUNITIES. 13:36:32 THE HEALTH CARE GAME. BLACKS ARE LESS LIKELY IN THEIR 13:36:35 SCHOOLS TO HAVE ADEQUATE FUNDING. 13:36:39 WE HAVE LESS QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:43 WE HAVE FEWER TEXTBOOKS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:47 WE GOT IN SOME SCHOOLS RATS OUTNUMBERING COMPUTERS. 13:36:52 THAT'S CALLED THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:36:55 YOU GOT A HEALTH CARE GAP. YOU'VE GOT AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:37:02 YOU'VE GOT KATRINA STILL UNDONE. WENT DUNN TO NEW ORLEANS THREE 13:37:11 WEEKS AGO. STILL LOOKS BOMBED OUT. 13:37:13 STILL NOT REBUILT. WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED, THE FEDERAL 13:37:19 GOVERNMENT HAS A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF GRANTS TO HELP REBUILD. 13:37:23 THEY WAIVED ANY REQUIREMENT THAT MANHATTAN WOULD HAVE TO PAY 10% 13:37:27 OF THE COST OF REBUILDING. WHEN HURRICANE FLORIDA -- 13:37:32 HURRICANE ANDREWS HAPPENED IN FLORIDA, 10% REQUIREMENT, THEY 13:37:36 WAIVED IT BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT SOME DISASTERS 13:37:39 ARE SO DEVASTATING THAT WE CAN'T EXPECT A COMMUNITY TO REBUILD. 13:37:46 NEW ORLEANS, THE LARGEST NATURAL CATASTROPHE IN OUR HISTORY, THE 13:37:52 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS, WHERE IS YOUR 10%? 13:37:58 THERE'S AN EMPATHY GAP. THERE'S A GAP IN TERMS OF 13:38:04 SYMPATHIZING FOR THOSE FOLKS IN NEW ORLEANS AS BAD AS 13:38:07 SYMPATHIZING WITH FOLKS ELSEWHERE. 13:38:09 IT'S NOT A GAP THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FELT BECAUSE WE SAW HOW 13:38:13 THEY RESPONDED. BUT SOMEHOW OUR GOVERNMENT 13:38:17 DIDN'T RESPOND WITH THAT SAME SENSE OF COMPASSION AND THAT 13:38:21 SAME SENSE OF KINDNESS. AND HERE'S THE WORST PART, THE 13:38:27 TRAGEDY IN NEW ORLEANS HAPPENED WELL BEFORE THE HURRICANE 13:38:32 STRUCK. BECAUSE MANY OF THOSE 13:38:34 COMMUNITIES THERE WERE SO MANY YOUNG MEN IN PRISON, SO MANY 13:38:38 KIDS DROPPING OUT, SO LITTLE HOPE, A HOPE GAP, A HOPE GAP 13:38:42 THAT STILL PERVADES TOO MANY COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE 13:38:45 COUNTRY AND RIGHT HERE IN ALABAMA. 13:38:49 SO THE QUESTION IS THEN, WHAT ARE WE THE JOSHUA GENERATION 13:38:53 DOING TO CLOSE THOSE GAPS? ARE WE DOING EVERY SINGLE THING 13:38:58 THAT WE CAN DO IN CONGRESS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT EARLY 13:39:02 EDUCATION IS ADEQUATELY FUNDED AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE 13:39:06 RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE SO IF SOMEBODY WORKS EACH AND EVERY 13:39:10 DAY THEY CAN HAVE SOME DIGNITY AND RESPECT? 13:39:12 ARE WE ENSURING IF SOMEBODY LOSES A JOB THAT THEY'RE GETTING 13:39:16 RETRAINED AND THAT IF THEY'VE LOST THEIR HEALTH CARE AND THEIR 13:39:21 PENSION THAT SOMEBODY IS THERE TO HELP THEM GET BACK ON THEIR 13:39:24 FEET? ARE WE MAKING SURE WE'RE GIVING 13:39:25 A SECOND CHANCE TO THOSE WHO HAVE STRAYED AND GONE TO PRISON 13:39:29 BUT WANT TO START A NEW LIFE? GOVERNMENT ALONE CAN'T SOLVE ALL 13:39:37 THOSE PROBLEMS, BUT GOVERNMENT CAN HELP, AND IT'S THE 13:39:41 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE 13:39:48 A GOVERNMENT AS RESPONSIBLE AS THE NEED EXISTS ALL ACROSS 13:39:52 AMERICA BUT THAT BRINGS ME TO ONE OTHER POINT THOUGH, JOSHUA 13:39:56 GENERATION, AND THAT IS THIS, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ENOUGH 13:40:01 JUST TO ASK WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR US, IT'S IMPORTANT 13:40:05 FOR US TO ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OURSELVES. 13:40:10 YET ONE OF THE SIGNATURE ASPECTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS 13:40:15 THE DEGREE OF DISCIPLINE AND FORTITUDE THAT WAS INSTILLED IN 13:40:21 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED. IMAGINE YOUNG PEOPLE, 16, 17, 13:40:29 20, 21 BACK STRAIGHT, EYES CLEAR, SUIT AND TIE SITTING DOWN 13:40:37 AT A LUNCH COUNTER KNOW BE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SPILL MILK 13:40:40 ON YOU BUT YOU HAVE THE DISCIPLINE TO UNDERSTAND THAT 13:40:43 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RETALIATE BECAUSE IN SHOWING THE WORLD HOW 13:40:48 DISCIPLINED WE WERE AS A PEOPLE, WE WERE ABLE TO WIN OVER THE 13:40:53 CONSCIENCE OF A NATION. I CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN THAT WE 13:41:00 HAVE INSTILLED THAT SAME SENSE OF MORAL CLARITY AND PURPOSE IN 13:41:05 THIS GENERATION. BISHOP, SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE 13:41:08 WE'VE LOST IT A LITTLE BIT. YOU KNOW, I'M FIGHTING TO MAKE 13:41:14 SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE ADEQUATELY FUNDED. 13:41:16 ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE HAVE INEQUITIES IN HOW SCHOOLS ARE 13:41:20 FUNDED BECAUSE IT'S RELIED ON PROPERTY TAXES AND PEOPLE WHO 13:41:23 HAPPEN TO BE BORN IN WEALTHY DISTRICTS, SOMEHOW THEY GET 13:41:28 BETTER SCHOOLS THAN FOLKS WHO ARE BORN IN POOR DISTRICTS AND 13:41:32 THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. 13:41:34 THAT'S NOT THE AMERICAN WAY, BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, EVEN AS I FIGHT 13:41:38 ON BEHALF OF MORE EDUCATION FUNDING, MORE EQUITY, I HAVE TO 13:41:42 ALSO SAY THAT IF PARENTS DON'T TURN OFF THE TELEVISION SET WHEN 13:41:47 THE CHILD COMES HOME FROM SCHOOL, AND MAKE SURE THEY SIT 13:41:52 DOWN AND DO THEIR HOMEWORK AND GO TALK TO THE TEACHERS AND FIND 13:41:56 OUT HOW THEY'RE DOING AND IF WE DON'T START INSTILLING A SENSE 13:41:59 IN OUR YOUNG CHILDREN, THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED 13:42:04 ABOUT IN EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, I DON'T KNOW WHO 13:42:07 CAUGHT THEM THAT READING AND WRITING AND CONJUGATING YOUR 13:42:11 VERBS WAS ACTING WHITE, WE'VE GOT TO GET OVER THAT MENTALITY. 13:42:14 WE'VE GOT TO DO FOR OURSEOURSEL. THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE MOSES 13:42:19 GENERATION TEACHES US, NOT SAYING TO OURSELVES WE CAN'T DO 13:42:23 SOMETHING BUT TELLING OURSELVES THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE. 13:42:27 WE CAN DO THAT. WE'VE GOT POWER IN OUR HANDS. 13:42:36 FOLKS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR GOVERNMENT. 13:42:39 I UNDERSTAND THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE COMPLAINING ABOUT. 13:42:45 I'M IN WASHINGTON. I SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 13:42:48 I SEE THOSE POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES HAVE SNUCK BACK 13:42:52 IN THERE. THAT THEY'RE WRITING THE ENERGY 13:42:55 BILLS AND THE DRUG LAWS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT. 13:42:58 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, I ALSO KNOW THAT IF COUSIN POOKIE WOULD 13:43:05 VOTE, IF UNCLE JETHRO WOULD GET OFF THE COUCH AND STOP WATCHING 13:43:12 "SPORTSCENTER" AND GO REGISTER SOME FOLKS AND GO TO THE POLLS, 13:43:15 WE MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF POLITICS. 13:43:18 THAT'S WHAT THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US. 13:43:23 KICK OFF YOUR BEDROOM SLIPPERS, PUT ON YOUR MARCHING SHOES, GO 13:43:28 DO SOME POLITICS, CHANGE THIS COUNTRY. 13:43:30 THAT'S WHAT THEY TEACH US. WE'VE GOT TOO MANY CHILDREN IN 13:43:39 POVERTY IN THIS COUNTRY, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ASHAMED. 13:43:43 BUT DON'T TELL ME EARTH DOESN'T HAVE A LITTLE TO DO WITH THE 13:43:46 FACT THAT WE GOT TOO MANY DADDIES NOT ACTING LIKE DADDIES. 13:43:53 I THINK THAT -- THINK THAT FATHERHOOD ENDS AT CONCEPTION, I 13:43:59 KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE MY FATHER WASN'T AROUND 13:44:02 WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND I STRUGGLED. 13:44:07 THOSE OF YOU WHO READ MY BOOK KNOW. 13:44:09 I WENT THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT TIMES. 13:44:11 I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A STRONG MALE FIGURE 13:44:15 IN THE HOUSE, WHICH IS WHY THE HARDEST THING ABOUT ME BEING IN 13:44:19 POLITICS SOMETIMES IS NOT BEING HOME AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE AND I'M 13:44:22 JUST BLESSED THAT I'VE GOT SUCH A WONDERFUL WIFE AT HOME TO HOLD 13:44:26 THINGS TOGETHER, BUT DON'T TELL ME THAT WE CAN'T DO BETTER BY 13:44:36 OUR CHILDREN, THAT WE CAN'T TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE 13:44:40 WE'RE INSTILLING IN THEM THE VALUES AND THE IDEAS THAT THE 13:44:43 MOSES GENERATION TAUGHT US ABOUT SACRIFICE AND DIGNITY AND 13:44:47 HONESTY AND HARD WORK AND DISCIPLINE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. 13:44:51 THAT COMES FROM US. WE'VE GOT TO TRANSMIT THAT TO 13:44:56 THE NEXT GENERATION AND I GUESS THE POINT THAT I'M MAKE 13:44:58 SOMETHING THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WASN'T JUST A FIGHT 13:45:03 AGAINST THE OPPRESSOR, IT WAS ALSO A FIGHT AGAINST THE 13:45:06 OPPRESSOR IN EACH OF US. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S EASY TO 13:45:12 JUST POINT AT SOMEBODY ELSE AND SAY, IT'S THERE THEIR FAULT BUT 13:45:17 OPPRESSION HAS A WAY OF CREEPING INTO YOU, REVEREND. 13:45:19 IT HAS A WAY OF STUNTING YOURSELF. 13:45:23 YOU START TELLING YOURSELF, BISHOP, I CAN'T DO SOMETHING. 13:45:27 I CAN'T READ, I CAN'T -- I CAN'T GO TO COLLEGE. 13:45:30 I CAN'T START A BUSINESS. I CAN'T RUN FOR CONGRESS. 13:45:33 I CAN'T RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, PEOPLE START TELLING YOU CAN'T 13:45:38 DO SOMETHING, AFTER A WHILE, YOU TART BELIEVING IT. 13:45:44 AND PART OF WHAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS ABOUT WAS 13:45:47 RECOGNIZING THAT WE HAVE TO TRANSFORM OURSELVES IN ORDER TO 13:45:50 TRANSFORM THE WORLD. MAHATMA GANDHI, THE GREAT HERO 13:45:57 OF DR. KING AND THE PERSON WHO HELPED CREATE THE NONVIOLENT 13:46:03 MOVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD, HE ONCE SAID THAT "YOU CAN'T CHANGE 13:46:07 THE WORLD IF YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED. 13:46:10 IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, THE CHANGE HAS TO HAPPEN WITH 13:46:13 YOU FIRST." AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE 13:46:19 GREATEST AND MOST HONORABLE OF GENERATIONS HAS TAUGHT US. 13:46:26 BUT THE FINAL THING THAT I THINK THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US 13:46:29 IS TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE DO WHAT WE DO BECAUSE GOD IS 13:46:35 WITH US. YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES WAS FIRST 13:46:41 CALLED TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT OF THE PROMISED LAND, HE SAID, "I DON'T 13:46:45 THINK I CAN DO IT, LORD. I DON'T SPEAK LIKE REVEREND 13:46:49 LOWERY. I DON'T -- I DON'T FEEL BRAVE 13:46:53 AND COURAGEOUS" AND THE LORD SAID "I WILL BE WITH YOU. 13:46:59 THROW DOWN THAT ROD, PICK IT BACK UP. 13:47:03 I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO." 13:47:06 AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:47:14 JOSHUA SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M SCARED. 13:47:17 I'M NOT SURE THAT I AM UP TO THE CHALLENGE, AND THE LORD SAID TO 13:47:25 HIM, EVERY PLACE THAT THE SOUL OF YOUR FOOT WILL TREAD UPON, I 13:47:31 HAVE GIVEN YOU. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I 13:47:36 AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:47:43 THAT'S A PRAYER FOR A JOURNEY, A PRAYER THAT KEPT A WOMAN IN HER 13:47:47 SEAT WHEN THE BUS DRIVER TOLD HER TO GET UP, A PRAYER THAT LED 13:47:50 NINE CHILDREN THROUGH THE DOORS OF A LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL, A 13:47:53 PRAYER THAT CARRIED OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER A BRIDGE RIGHT 13:47:57 HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE WHEN 13:48:02 YOU SEE ROW AND ROW OF STATE TROOPER FACING YOU, YOU SEE THE 13:48:07 HORSES AND THE TEAR GAS, HOW ELSE CAN YOU WALK TOWARDS THEM 13:48:10 UNARMED AND UNAFRAID? WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU AND 13:48:13 START BEATING YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR NEIGHBORS HOW ELSE CAN YOU 13:48:17 SIMPLY KNEEL DOWN, BOW YOUR HEAD AND ASK THE LORD FOR SALVATION 13:48:20 WHEN YOU SEE HEADS GASHED OPEN AND EYES BURNING AND LITTLE 13:48:24 CHILDREN LYING HURT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WHEN YOU'RE JOHN 13:48:28 LEWIS AND YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE ON 13:48:31 SUNDAY HOW DO YOU WAKE UP ON MONDAY AND KEEP ON MARCHING? 13:48:34 BE STRONG, AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. 13:48:41 WE'VE COME A LONG WAY IN THIS JOURNEY, BUT WE STILL HAVE A 13:48:46 LONG WAY TO TRAVEL. WE TRAVEL BECAUSE GOD WAS WITH 13:48:52 US. IT'S NOT HOW FAR WE'VE COME THIS 13:48:55 FAR ON OUR JOURNEY. THAT BRIDGE OUTSIDE WAS CROSSED 13:48:58 BY BLACKS AND WHITES, NORTHERNERS AND SOUTHERNERS, 13:49:01 TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN, SHOPKEEPERS AND JANITORS, A 13:49:04 BELOVED COMMUNITY OF GOD'S CHILDREN WILLING TO TAKE THOSE 13:49:07 STEPS TOGETHER. BUT IT WAS LEFT TO THE JOSHUAS 13:49:12 TO FINISH THE JOURNEY MOSES HAD BEGUN AND TODAY WE'RE CALLED TO 13:49:15 BE THE JOSHUAS OF OUR TIME, TO BE THE GENERATION THAT FINDS OUR 13:49:19 WAY ACROSS THIS RIVER, THERE WILL BE DAYS WHEN THE WATER 13:49:23 SEEMS WIDE AND THE JOURNEY TOO FAR, BUT IN THOSE MOMENTS WE 13:49:27 MUST REMEMBER THAT THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, THERE HAS BEEN A 13:49:31 RUNNING THREAD OF IDEALS THAT HAVE GUIDED OUR TRAVELS AND 13:49:35 PUSHED US FORWARD EVEN WHEN THEY'RE JUST BEYOND OUR REACH, 13:49:40 LIBERTY IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY, EQUALITY IN THE FACE OF BITTER 13:49:44 INJUSTICE, OPPORTUNITY WHERE THERE WAS NONE AND HOPE OVER THE 13:49:46 MOST CRUSHING DE SPARE, THOSE IDEALS, THOSE VALUES, THEY 13:49:50 BECKON US STILL, AND WHEN WE HAVE OUR DOUBTS AND OUR FEARS, 13:49:53 JUST LIKE JOSHUA DID, WHEN THE ROAD LOOKS TOO LONG AND IT SEEMS 13:49:57 LIKE WE MAY LOSE OUR WAY, REMEMBER WHAT THESE PEOPLE DID 13:50:01 ON THAT BRIDGE, KEEPING YOUR H 13:50:07 HEART, THE PRAYER OF THAT JOURNEY, THE PRAYER THAT GOD 13:50:09 GAVE TO JOSHUA, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF 13:50:16 INJUSTICE, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF PREJUDICE 13:50:21 AND HATRED, IN THE FACE OF JOBLESSNESS AND HELPLESSNESS AND 13:50:28 HOPELESSNESS, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:50:30 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED TODAY IN THE FACE 13:50:34 OF OUR DOUBTS AND FEARS, IN THE FACE OF SKEPTICISM, IN THE FACE 13:50:39 OF CYNICISM, IN THE FACE OF A MIGHTY RIVER, BE STRONG AND HAVE 13:50:44 COURAGE AND LET US CROSS OVER THAT PROMISED LAND TOGETHER. 13:50:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY. GOD BLESS YOU. END SENATOR BARACK OBAMA

South Carolina, Charleston

[VOTE 2008 / OBAMA AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA] [SELMA, ALA USA] FTG OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-ILL) AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA 12:28:32 Obama standing 12:29:01 Obama sits back down 12:41:55 Obama receiving a standing ovation 12:42:08 Obama smiling and laughing 12:46:07 Obama standing behind preacher 12:46:21 Obama clapping and sitting back down 12:52:41 Obama clapping 13:16:19 I want to start by saying I want to thank him for his support . 13:17:14 Somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage . 13:17:39 To all the distinguished guests and clergy. I'm not sure I'm going to thank the . because he stole the show . nervous about following so many great clergy men .. 13:18:31 Thanks you very much for letting me speak . after I announced I was running for president of the united states . drawing from script 13:19:24 I acknowledge there is a certain amount of presumptuousness with this . his son is now preacher at my church . I got a letter giving me encouragement telling me how proud he was and reminded me to stay true to my ideals . tell them to look at the story of Joshua . 13:20:37 So I just want to talk a little bit about . we are in the presence today of a lot of Moses' . people who battle on behalf of all of America . endured taunts and torments . gave full measure of their devotion . who said that some are atop and some are at the bottom and that's how it will always be . 13:22:53 They wondered through a desert and knowing that god was with them . and it's because they marched that the next generation has not been as bloodied . it's because they marched that I stand here today . 13:23:54 Because not only is my career the result of the men and women we honor here today, my very existence might not have happened . you don't understand, my grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya . 13:25:24 Yet something happened here in Selma Alabama . 13:26:25 Worried folks in the white house, we're fighting communism . the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift . this young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets . 13:27:46 Don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma Alabama . I'm here because ya'll sacrificed or me . I stand on your shoulders . 13:32:36 Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence, you have to fill that . second thing is the principals of equality is not a one sided thing . 13:33:43 They have basically spent all their time worrying about affirmative action . reminds us we still have a lot work to do . we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough . that is something that we have got to continue to work on 13:35:40 Third thing, we fought for civil rights, but we still have a lot of economic rights to work for . we've got what's know as a health care disparity . life expectancy is lower in the minorities . we have fewer teachers and text books in the schools . health care gap and achievement gap 13:37:00 New Orleans still looks bombed out . when 9-11 happened, they waived any requirement . because they understood . federal government says where's your 10%. There's an empathy gap . 13:38:02 Not a gap the American people felt . the government was the problem . because many of those communities . hope gap . 13:38:40 The question is, what are we the Joshua generation doing to close the gap .. Are we ensuring . and giving a second chance 13:39:29 Government can help . make sure the government is responsive . it's enough to ask with the government can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves . 13:41:24 I tell you what, even as I fight for more education funding . if parents don't turn off the television set . it we don't instill a sense in our young children . we've got to get over that mentality . 13:42:14 Telling ourselves we can achieve . we can do that. We can achieve. 13:42:37 I'm in Washington, I see what's going on . I also know that cousin poky wasn't voting . kick off your marching slippers, put on your marching shoes . 13:43:44 They think that fatherhood ends at conception . I went through some difficult times . 13:44:53 It wasn't just a fight against the oppressor, it was a fight against the oppressor in all of us . it has a way of stunting yourself . part of what the civil rights movement was realizing you have to change more then just ourselves . 13:46:04 That is something that the greatest and the most honorable of generations has taught us . we do what we do because God is with us . 13:46:56 The same thing happened with the Joshua generation . not sure I can do this . be strong and have courage . that's a prayer for a journey . 13:48:31 We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to go . that bridge was crossed . and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our generation .. Liberty in the face of injustice . 13:49:56 Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey . be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice . hopelessness 13:50:29 In the face of a mighty river, be strong and have courage and lets cross that bridge together, thank you 13:50:55 Obama embracing various members of the clergy on stage 13:51:37 Obama sits back down 13:56:42 Obama head down in prayer and song SEGMENT [1] 2007/03/04 ************************************************ SENATOR BARACK OBAMA SPEAKING AT THE BROWN CHAPEL IN SELMA, ALABAMA 13:16:08 SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: I MUST BEGIN BECAUSE AT THE 13:16:16 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS MORNING, I WAS SAVING HIM FOR LAST AND THE 13:16:20 LIST OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WAS SO LONG, I LEFT HIM OUT AFTER THAT 13:16:25 INTRODUCTION, SO I'M GOING TO START BY SAYING HOW MUCH I 13:16:29 APPRECIATE THE FRIENDSHIP AND THE SUPPORT AND THE OUTSTANDING 13:16:33 WORK THAT HE DOES EACH AND EVERY DAY, NOT JUST IN CAPITOL HILL 13:16:39 BUT ALSO BACK HERE IN THE DISTRICT, PLEASE GIVE A WARM 13:16:42 ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN ARTUR DAVIS. 13:16:45 [ APPLAUSE ] IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE, 13:16:58 REVEREND JACKSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TO THE FAMILY OF BROWN 13:17:04 AM & E AND BISHOP KIRKLAND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL 13:17:09 MESSAGE AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE OF THE 13:17:16 GREAT HEROS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND AMERICAN LIFE, SOMEBODY WHO 13:17:29 CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF DECENCY AND COURAGE, SOMEBODY WHO I HAVE 13:17:35 ADMIRED ALL MY LIFE AND WERE IT NOT FOR HIM I'M NOT SURE I WOULD 13:17:41 BE HERE TODAY, CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, I'M THANKFUL TO HIM. 13:17:44 [ APPLAUSE ] TO ALL THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS 13:17:51 AND CLERGY, I'M NOT SURE I'M GOING TO THANK REVEREND LOWERY 13:17:56 BECAUSE HE STOLE THE SHOW. [ LAUGHTER ] 13:18:06 I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER I KNOW WE'VE GOT C.T. VIVIAN AND ALL 13:18:11 THIS. WHEN YOU HAVE TO SPEAK IN FRONT 13:18:12 OF SOMEBODY WHO MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID WAS THE GREATEST 13:18:15 PREACHER HE EVER HEARD THEN YOU GOT SOME PROBLEMS, AND I'M A 13:18:19 LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT FOLLOWING SO MANY GREAT PREACHERS. 13:18:28 BUT I AM HOPING THAT THE SPIRIT MOVES ME. 13:18:31 TO ALL MY CONGRESSIONAL COLLEAGUES AND OTHER ELECTED 13:18:34 OFFICIALS WERE HERE, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO HAVE GIVEN ME SUCH A 13:18:38 WARM WELCOME, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TO 13:18:42 YOU HERE TODAY. YOU KNOW, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, 13:18:50 AFTER I HAD ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF 13:18:55 THE UNITED STATES, I STOOD IN FRONT OF THE OLD STATE CAPITOL 13:18:59 IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DELIVERED HIS 13:19:05 SPEECH DECLARING DASH DRAWING FROM SCRIPTURE THAT A HOUSE 13:19:09 DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF COULD NOT STAND, AND I STOOD AND I 13:19:13 ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY, AND THERE WERE A 13:19:17 LOT OF COMMENTATORS AS THEY ARE PRONE TO DO WHO QUESTIONED THE 13:19:24 AUDACITY OF A YOUNG MAN LIKE MYSELF, HADN'T BEEN IN 13:19:29 WASHINGTON TOO LONG AND I ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE'S A 13:19:34 CERTAIN PRESUMPTUOUSNESS ABOUT THIS, BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM A 13:19:40 FRIEND OF SOME OF YOURS NAMED REVEREND OTIS MALSH JR. IN 13:19:49 CLEVELAND, ILLINOIS, AND HIS SON, OTIS MOSS III IS NOW 13:19:54 PASTORING AT MY CHURCH, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST AND I 13:19:59 MUST SEND GREETINGS FROM OUR SENIOR PASTOR DR. INJURE MYA A. 13:20:05 WRIGHT JR., BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM REVEREND OTIS MOSS JR. 13:20:10 GIVING ME ENCOURAGEMENT AND SAYING HOW PROUD HE WAS THAT I 13:20:15 HAD ANNOUNCED, AND ENCOURAGING ME TO STAY TRUE TO MY IDEALS AND 13:20:23 MY VALUES AND NOT TO BE FEARFUL AND HE SAID IF THERE'S SOME 13:20:29 FOLKS OUT THERE WHO ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT YOU 13:20:34 SHOULD RUN, JUST TELL THEM TO LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOSHUA. 13:20:43 BECAUSE YOU'RE PART OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:20:47 AND SO I JUST WANT TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT MOSES AND AARON AND 13:20:53 JOSHUA. BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE 13:21:00 TODAY OF A LOT OF MOSESS. WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE TODAY OF 13:21:08 GIANTS WHOSE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON, PEOPLE WHO BATTLED ON 13:21:17 BEHALF, NOT JUST OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, BUT ON BEHALF 13:21:21 OF ALL OF AMERICA, THAT BATTLED FOR AMERICA'S SOUL, THAT SHED 13:21:31 BLOOD, THAT ENDURED TAUNTS AND TORMENT AND IN SOME CASES GAVE 13:21:37 THE FULL MEASURE OF THEIR DEVOTION. 13:21:41 LIKE MOSES, THEY CHALLENGED FARROW, THE PRINCES AND POWERS, 13:21:51 WHO SAID THAT SOME ARE ATOP AND OTHERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM, AND 13:21:57 THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE. 13:22:00 THERE WERE PEOPLE LIKE ANNA COOPER AND MARIE FOSTER AND 13:22:05 JIMMY LEE JACKSON AND MAURICE OLETT, C.T. VIVIAN, REVEREND 13:22:13 LOWERY, JOHN LEWIS, WHO SAID WE CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, 13:22:19 THAT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE FOR US TOO. 13:22:23 THAT GOD HAS MADE US IN HIS IMAGE, AND THAT WE REJECT THE 13:22:28 NOTION THAT WE WILL FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES BE CONFINED TO A 13:22:33 STATION OF INFERIORITY, THAT WE CAN ASPIRE TO THE HIGHEST OF 13:22:39 HEIGHTS THAT OUR TALENTS CAN BE EXPRESSED TO THEIR FULLEST. 13:22:45 AND SO BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY ENDURED, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY 13:22:50 MARCHED, THEY LED A PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:22:56 THEY TOOK THEM ACROSS A SEA THAT FOLKS THOUGHT COULD NOT BE 13:23:02 PARTED. THEY WANDERED THROUGH A DESERT, 13:23:06 BUT ALWAYS KNOWING THAT GOD WAS WITH THEM AND THAT IF THEY 13:23:11 MAINTAINED THAT TRUST IN GOD, THAT THEY WOULD BE ALL RIGHT. 13:23:17 AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT THE NEXT GENERATION HASN'T 13:23:25 BEEN BLOODED SO MUCH. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT 13:23:28 WE ELECTED COUNCILMEN AND CONGRESSMEN. 13:23:32 IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT WE HAVE ARTUR DAVIS AND KEITH 13:23:37 ELLISON. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I 13:23:39 GOT THE KIND OF EDUCATION I GOT, THAT I GOT A LAW DEGREE AND A 13:23:45 SEAT IN THE ILLINOIS SENATE AND ULTIMATELY IN THE UNITED STATES 13:23:48 SENATE IS BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU HERE 13:23:50 TODAY. AND I WAS MENTIONING AT THE 13:24:02 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS IMPORTANT, MY DEBT IS EVEN GREATER THAN 13:24:05 THAT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS MY CAREER THE RESULT OF THE WORK OF 13:24:13 THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WE HONOR HERE TODAY, MY VERY EXISTENCE 13:24:21 MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SOME OF THE 13:24:24 FOLKS HERE TODAY. I MENTIONED AT THE UNITY 13:24:28 BREAKFAST THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING, WELL, YOU 13:24:31 KNOW, YOUR FATHER WAS FROM AFRICA, YOUR MOTHER, SHE'S A 13:24:35 WHITE WOMAN FROM KANSAS, I'M NOT SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME 13:24:39 EXPERIENCE, AND I TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT. 13:24:41 YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU SEE, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A 13:24:45 COOK TO THE BRITISH IN KENYA, GREW UP IN A SMALL VILLAGE, AND 13:24:52 ALL HIS LIFE THAT'S ALL HE WAS WAS A COOK AND A HOUSEBOY AND 13:24:56 THAT'S WHAT THEY CALLED HIM EVEN WHEN HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD THEY 13:25:00 CALLED HIM A HOUSEBOY. WOULDN'T CALL HIM BY HIS LAST 13:25:05 NAME. CALLED HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME. 13:25:08 SOUND FAMILIAR? AND HE HAD TO CARRY A PASSBOOK 13:25:14 AROUND, BECAUSE AFRICANS IN THEIR OWN LAND IN THEIR OWN 13:25:17 COUNTRY AT THAT TIME BECAUSE IT WAS A BRITISH COLONY COULD NOT 13:25:22 MOVE ABOUT FREELY. THEY COULD ONLY GO WHERE THEY 13:25:25 WERE TOLD TO G THEY COULD ONLY WORK WHERE THEY WERE TOLD TO 13:25:31 WORK, AND YET SOMETHING HAPPENED BACK HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA, 13:25:37 SOMETHING HAPPENED IN BIRMINGHAM THAT SENT OUT WHAT BOBBY KENNEDY 13:25:41 CALLED RIPPLES OF HOPE ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 13:25:44 SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN A BUNCH OF WOMEN DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO 13:25:49 WALK INSTEAD OF RIDE THE BUS AFTER A LONG DAY OF DOING 13:25:53 SOMEBODY ELSE'S LAUNDRY AND LOOKING AFTER SOMEBODY ELSE'S 13:25:55 CHILDREN WHEN MEN WHO HAD Ph.D.s WERE WORKING AS PORTERS DECIDED 13:26:01 THAT'S ENOUGH AND WE'RE GOING TO STAND UP DESPITE THE RISKS FOR 13:26:04 OUR DIGNITY AND I RESPECT THAT CENTER SHOUT ACROSS OCEANS SO 13:26:10 THAT MY GRANDFATHER BEGAN TO IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR 13:26:14 HIS SON AND HIS SON WHO GREW UP HERDING GOATS IN A SMALL VILLAGE 13:26:19 IN AFRICA COULD SUDDENLY SET HIS SIGHTS A LITTLE HIGHER AND 13:26:24 SUDDENLY BELIEVE THAT MAYBE A BLACK MAN IN THIS WORLD HAD A 13:26:29 CHANCE, AND WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA AND BIRMINGHAM 13:26:33 ALSO STIRRED THE CONSCIENCE OF A NATION AND IT WORRIED FOLKS IN 13:26:38 THE WHITE HOUSE WHO SAID WE'RE BATTLING COMMUNISM, HOW ARE WE 13:26:41 GOING TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD IF 13:26:44 RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JOHN, WE'RE NOT OBSERVING THE 13:26:49 IDEALS THAT ARE SET FORTH IN OUR CONSTITUTION? 13:26:52 WE MIGHT BE ACCUSED OF BEING HYPOCRITES SO THE KENNEDYS 13:26:56 DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO DO AN AIRLIFT. 13:26:59 WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT TO AFRICA AND WE'RE GOING TO START 13:27:02 BRINGING YOUNG AFRICANS OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND BRING THEM 13:27:05 SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN WHAT A WONDERFUL 13:27:09 COUNTRY AMERICA IS AND THIS YOUNG MAN NAMED BARACK OBAMA GOT 13:27:13 ONE OF THOSE TICKETS AND CAME OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND HE MET 13:27:20 THIS WOMAN, WHOSE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER HAD 13:27:25 OWNED SLAVES, BUT SHE HAD A DIFFERENT IDEA. 13:27:29 THERE'S SOME GOOD CRAZINESS GOING ON BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AT 13:27:32 EACH OTHER AND THEY DECIDED, WE KNOW THAT IN THE WORLD AS IT HAS 13:27:36 BEEN IT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET TOGETHER AND HAVE 13:27:39 A CHILD, BUT SOMETHING IS STIRRING ACROSS THE COUNTRY 13:27:42 BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA, BECAUSE SOME 13:27:46 FOLKS ARE WILLING TO MARCH ACROSS THE BRIDGE. 13:27:49 AND SO THEY GOT TOGETHER AND BARACK OBAMA JR. WAS BORN. 13:27:55 SO DON'T TELL ME I DON'T HAVE A CLAIM ON SELMA, ALABAMA. 13:28:00 DON'T TELL ME I'M NOT COMING HOME WHEN I COME TO SELMA, 13:28:03 ALABAMA. I'M HERE BECAUSE SOMEBODY 13:28:06 MARCHED FOR OUR FREEDOM. I'M HERE BECAUSE Y'ALL 13:28:11 SACRIFICED FOR ME. I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF 13:28:19 THIS. I THANK THE MOSES GENERATION. 13:28:27 BUT WE GOT TO REMEMBER NOW THAT JOSHUA STILL HAD A JOB TO DO. 13:28:36 AS GREAT AS MOSES WAS, DESPITE ALL THAT HE DID, LEADING A 13:28:44 PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE, HE DIDN'T CROSS OVER THE RIVER TO SEE THE 13:28:51 PROMISED LAND. GOD TOLD HIM YOUR JOB IS DONE, 13:28:55 YOU'LL SEE IT. YOU'LL BE AT THE MOUNTAINTOP, 13:28:58 AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT I'VE PROMISED, WHAT I PROMISED TO 13:29:03 ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB AND I PROMISED TO YOU, YOU CAN SEE 13:29:07 THAT I WILL FULFILL THAT PROMISE. 13:29:10 BUT YOU WON'T GO THERE. WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE IT TO THE 13:29:14 JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS. 13:29:18 THERE'S STILL SOME BATTLES HA NEED TO BE FOUGHT, SOME RIVERS 13:29:21 THAT NEED TO BE CROSSED. LIKE MOSES, THE TASK WAS PASSED 13:29:27 ON TO THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AS DESERVING, MIGHT NOT 13:29:33 HAVE BEEN AS COURAGEOUS FIND THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF THE RISKS 13:29:37 THAT THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT 13:29:41 GRANDPARENTS HAD TAKEN, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY STILL DON'T 13:29:43 HAVE A BURDEN THAT THEY HAVE TO SHOULDER, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE 13:29:47 SOME RESPONSIBILITIES THE PREVIOUS GENERATION, THE MOSES 13:29:51 GENERATION POINTED THE WAY. THEY TOOK US 90% OF THE WAY 13:29:55 THERE, BUT WE STILL GOT THAT 10% IN ORDER TO CROSS OVER TO THE 13:30:00 OTHER SIDE. AND SO THE QUESTION, I GUESS, 13:30:05 THAT I HAVE TODAY IS WHAT'S CALLED OF US IN THIS JOSHUA 13:30:11 GENERATION? WHAT DO WE DO IN ORDER TO 13:30:13 FULFILL THAT LEGACY TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS AND THE DEBT 13:30:17 THAT WE OWE TO THOSE WHO ALLOWED US TO BE HERE TODAY? 13:30:22 NOW, I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVER FULLY REPAY THAT DEBT. 13:30:26 I THINK THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE LOOKING BACK, BUT THERE 13:30:33 ARE AT LEAST A FEW SUGGESTIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE IN TERMS OF 13:30:37 HOW WE MIGHT FULFILL THAT ENORMOUS LEGACY. 13:30:43 THE FIRST IS TO RECOGNIZE OUR HISTORY. 13:30:48 JOHN LEWIS TALKED ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY, BUT I WORRY 13:30:52 SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WE COME DOWN TO 13:30:57 MARCH EVERY YEAR ONCE A YEAR. WE OCCASIONALLY CELEBRATE THE 13:31:05 VARIOUS EVENTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 13:31:08 WE CELEBRATE DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY, BUT IT STRIKES ME THAT 13:31:12 UNDERSTANDING OUR HISTORY AND KNOWING WHAT IT MEANS IS AN 13:31:15 EVERYDAY ACTIVITY. YOU NOTICE WHEN MOSES SPOKE TO 13:31:23 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, TELLING THEM THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO BE 13:31:30 GOING WITH THEM, HE LAID OUT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND 13:31:34 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE SAID, BISHOP, WAS HE SAID, "KNOW YOUR 13:31:39 PAST. KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM. 13:31:41 KNOW HOW YOU WERE LED OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:31:45 KNOW HOW PHARAOH REFUSED TO LET YOU GO AND THAT GOD CAME DOWN 13:31:49 AND VISITED ALL MANNER OF PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE UNTIL FINALLY A 13:31:54 PEOPLE WERE FREED." MOSES TOLD THE JOSHUA 13:32:00 GENERATION, DON'T FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM, AND I WORRY 13:32:04 SOMETIMES THAT THE JOSHUA GENERATION IN ITS SUCCESS 13:32:08 FORGETS WHERE IT CAME FROM. THINKS IT DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE 13:32:12 AS MANY SACRIFICES, THINKS THAT THE VERY HEIGHT OF AMBITION IS 13:32:18 TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU CAN, TO DRIVE THE BIGGEST CAR 13:32:23 AND HAVE THE BIGGEST HOUSE AND WEAR A ROLEX WATCH AND GET YOUR 13:32:28 OWN PRIVATE JET, GET SOME OF THAT OPRAH MONEY, AND I THINK 13:32:37 THAT'S A GOOD THING. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH 13:32:40 MAKING MONEY BUT IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THEN YOU KNOW THAT 13:32:44 THERE'S A CERTAIN POVERTY OF AMBITION INVOLVED IN SIMPLY 13:32:50 STRIVING JUST FOR MONEY, MATERIALISM ALONE WILL NOT 13:32:58 FULFILL THE POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 13:33:01 YOU HAVE TO FILL THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 13:33:02 YOU HAVE TO FILL IT WITH THE GOLAN RULE. 13:33:05 YOU GOT TO FILL IT WITH THINKING ABOUT OTHERS, AND IF WE KNOW OUR 13:33:10 HISTORY, THEN WE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE HIGHEST MARK OF 13:33:16 SERVICE. SECOND THING THAT THE JOSHUA 13:33:19 GENERATION NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE PRINCIPLES OF 13:33:23 EQUALITY THAT WERE SET FORTH AND WERE BATTLED FOR HAVE TO BE 13:33:28 FOUGHT EACH AND EVERY DAY, IT IS NOT A ONE-TIME THING. 13:33:34 I WAS REMARKING AT THE UNITY BREAKFAST ON THE FACT THAT THE 13:33:40 SINGLE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONCERN THAT THIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 13:33:46 UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD WITH RESPECT TO 13:33:50 DISCRIMINATION HAS TO DO WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 13:33:53 THAT THEY HAVE BASICALLY SPENT ALL THEIR TIME WORRYING ABOUT 13:33:58 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE GIVEN A 13:34:01 LITTLE BREAK TO YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANICS 13:34:06 TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE TOO. 13:34:08 I HAD A SCHOOL IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THAT IT SET UP A 13:34:11 PROGRAM FOR Ph.D.s IN MATH AND SCIENCE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, 13:34:16 AND THE REASON THEY HAD SET IT UP IS BECAUSE WE ONLY HAD LESS 13:34:21 THAN 1% OF THE Ph.D.s, DOCTOR, IN SCIENCE AND MATH GO TO 13:34:27 AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE COMPETING IN A 13:34:30 GLOBAL ECONOMY -- WHEN WE'RE NOT JUST COMPETING AGAINST FOLKS IN 13:34:36 NORTH CAROLINA OR FLORIDA BUT IN CHINA AND INDIA AND WE NEED MATH 13:34:40 AND SCIENCE MAJORS, THIS UNIVERSITY THOUGHT THAT THIS 13:34:43 MIGHT BE A NICE THING TO DO, AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WROTE 13:34:46 THEM A LETTER SAYING WE ARE GOING TO THREATEN TO SUE YOU FOR 13:34:50 REVERSE DISCRIMINATION UNLESS YOU CEASE THIS PROGRAM, AND IT 13:34:56 REMINDS US THAT WE STILL GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO, AND THAT THE 13:35:02 BASIC ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS, THE 13:35:07 INJUSTICE THAT STILL EXISTS WITHIN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 13:35:11 SYSTEM, THE DISPARITY IN TERMS OF HOW PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN 13:35:17 THIS COUNTRY CONTINUES. IT HAS GOTTEN BETTER, AND WE 13:35:21 SHOULD NEVER DENY THAT IT'S GOTTEN BETTER, BUT WE SHOULDN'T 13:35:25 FORGET THAT BETTER IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, THAT UNTIL WE'VE GOT 13:35:30 ABSOLUTE EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY IN TERMS OF PEOPLE BEING 13:35:33 TREATED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR COLOR OR THEIR GENDER THAT THAT 13:35:37 IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON AND THE 13:35:42 JOSHUA GENERATION HAS A SIGNIFICANT TASK IN MAKING THAT 13:35:45 HAPPEN. THIRD THING, WE'VE GOT TO 13:35:51 RECOGNIZE THAT WE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, BUT WE'VE STILL 13:35:55 GOT A LOT OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH. 13:35:59 WE'VE GOT 46 -- 46 MILLION PEOPLE UNINSURED IN THIS COUNTRY 13:36:06 DESPITE SPENDING MORE MONEY ON HEALTH CARE THAN ANY NATION ON 13:36:08 EARTH. MAKES NO SENSE. 13:36:13 AS CONSEQUENCE WE'VE GOT WHAT'S KNOWN AS A HEALTH CARE DISPARITY 13:36:19 IN THIS NATION BECAUSE MANY OF THE UNINSURED ARE 13:36:23 AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR LATINO. LIFE EXPECTANCY IS LOWER, ALMOST 13:36:27 EVERY DISEASE IS HIGHER WITHIN MINORITY COMMUNITIES. 13:36:32 THE HEALTH CARE GAME. BLACKS ARE LESS LIKELY IN THEIR 13:36:35 SCHOOLS TO HAVE ADEQUATE FUNDING. 13:36:39 WE HAVE LESS QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:43 WE HAVE FEWER TEXTBOOKS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:47 WE GOT IN SOME SCHOOLS RATS OUTNUMBERING COMPUTERS. 13:36:52 THAT'S CALLED THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:36:55 YOU GOT A HEALTH CARE GAP. YOU'VE GOT AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:37:02 YOU'VE GOT KATRINA STILL UNDONE. WENT DUNN TO NEW ORLEANS THREE 13:37:11 WEEKS AGO. STILL LOOKS BOMBED OUT. 13:37:13 STILL NOT REBUILT. WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED, THE FEDERAL 13:37:19 GOVERNMENT HAS A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF GRANTS TO HELP REBUILD. 13:37:23 THEY WAIVED ANY REQUIREMENT THAT MANHATTAN WOULD HAVE TO PAY 10% 13:37:27 OF THE COST OF REBUILDING. WHEN HURRICANE FLORIDA -- 13:37:32 HURRICANE ANDREWS HAPPENED IN FLORIDA, 10% REQUIREMENT, THEY 13:37:36 WAIVED IT BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT SOME DISASTERS 13:37:39 ARE SO DEVASTATING THAT WE CAN'T EXPECT A COMMUNITY TO REBUILD. 13:37:46 NEW ORLEANS, THE LARGEST NATURAL CATASTROPHE IN OUR HISTORY, THE 13:37:52 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS, WHERE IS YOUR 10%? 13:37:58 THERE'S AN EMPATHY GAP. THERE'S A GAP IN TERMS OF 13:38:04 SYMPATHIZING FOR THOSE FOLKS IN NEW ORLEANS AS BAD AS 13:38:07 SYMPATHIZING WITH FOLKS ELSEWHERE. 13:38:09 IT'S NOT A GAP THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FELT BECAUSE WE SAW HOW 13:38:13 THEY RESPONDED. BUT SOMEHOW OUR GOVERNMENT 13:38:17 DIDN'T RESPOND WITH THAT SAME SENSE OF COMPASSION AND THAT 13:38:21 SAME SENSE OF KINDNESS. AND HERE'S THE WORST PART, THE 13:38:27 TRAGEDY IN NEW ORLEANS HAPPENED WELL BEFORE THE HURRICANE 13:38:32 STRUCK. BECAUSE MANY OF THOSE 13:38:34 COMMUNITIES THERE WERE SO MANY YOUNG MEN IN PRISON, SO MANY 13:38:38 KIDS DROPPING OUT, SO LITTLE HOPE, A HOPE GAP, A HOPE GAP 13:38:42 THAT STILL PERVADES TOO MANY COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE 13:38:45 COUNTRY AND RIGHT HERE IN ALABAMA. 13:38:49 SO THE QUESTION IS THEN, WHAT ARE WE THE JOSHUA GENERATION 13:38:53 DOING TO CLOSE THOSE GAPS? ARE WE DOING EVERY SINGLE THING 13:38:58 THAT WE CAN DO IN CONGRESS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT EARLY 13:39:02 EDUCATION IS ADEQUATELY FUNDED AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE 13:39:06 RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE SO IF SOMEBODY WORKS EACH AND EVERY 13:39:10 DAY THEY CAN HAVE SOME DIGNITY AND RESPECT? 13:39:12 ARE WE ENSURING IF SOMEBODY LOSES A JOB THAT THEY'RE GETTING 13:39:16 RETRAINED AND THAT IF THEY'VE LOST THEIR HEALTH CARE AND THEIR 13:39:21 PENSION THAT SOMEBODY IS THERE TO HELP THEM GET BACK ON THEIR 13:39:24 FEET? ARE WE MAKING SURE WE'RE GIVING 13:39:25 A SECOND CHANCE TO THOSE WHO HAVE STRAYED AND GONE TO PRISON 13:39:29 BUT WANT TO START A NEW LIFE? GOVERNMENT ALONE CAN'T SOLVE ALL 13:39:37 THOSE PROBLEMS, BUT GOVERNMENT CAN HELP, AND IT'S THE 13:39:41 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE 13:39:48 A GOVERNMENT AS RESPONSIBLE AS THE NEED EXISTS ALL ACROSS 13:39:52 AMERICA BUT THAT BRINGS ME TO ONE OTHER POINT THOUGH, JOSHUA 13:39:56 GENERATION, AND THAT IS THIS, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ENOUGH 13:40:01 JUST TO ASK WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR US, IT'S IMPORTANT 13:40:05 FOR US TO ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OURSELVES. 13:40:10 YET ONE OF THE SIGNATURE ASPECTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS 13:40:15 THE DEGREE OF DISCIPLINE AND FORTITUDE THAT WAS INSTILLED IN 13:40:21 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED. IMAGINE YOUNG PEOPLE, 16, 17, 13:40:29 20, 21 BACK STRAIGHT, EYES CLEAR, SUIT AND TIE SITTING DOWN 13:40:37 AT A LUNCH COUNTER KNOW BE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SPILL MILK 13:40:40 ON YOU BUT YOU HAVE THE DISCIPLINE TO UNDERSTAND THAT 13:40:43 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RETALIATE BECAUSE IN SHOWING THE WORLD HOW 13:40:48 DISCIPLINED WE WERE AS A PEOPLE, WE WERE ABLE TO WIN OVER THE 13:40:53 CONSCIENCE OF A NATION. I CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN THAT WE 13:41:00 HAVE INSTILLED THAT SAME SENSE OF MORAL CLARITY AND PURPOSE IN 13:41:05 THIS GENERATION. BISHOP, SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE 13:41:08 WE'VE LOST IT A LITTLE BIT. YOU KNOW, I'M FIGHTING TO MAKE 13:41:14 SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE ADEQUATELY FUNDED. 13:41:16 ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE HAVE INEQUITIES IN HOW SCHOOLS ARE 13:41:20 FUNDED BECAUSE IT'S RELIED ON PROPERTY TAXES AND PEOPLE WHO 13:41:23 HAPPEN TO BE BORN IN WEALTHY DISTRICTS, SOMEHOW THEY GET 13:41:28 BETTER SCHOOLS THAN FOLKS WHO ARE BORN IN POOR DISTRICTS AND 13:41:32 THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. 13:41:34 THAT'S NOT THE AMERICAN WAY, BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, EVEN AS I FIGHT 13:41:38 ON BEHALF OF MORE EDUCATION FUNDING, MORE EQUITY, I HAVE TO 13:41:42 ALSO SAY THAT IF PARENTS DON'T TURN OFF THE TELEVISION SET WHEN 13:41:47 THE CHILD COMES HOME FROM SCHOOL, AND MAKE SURE THEY SIT 13:41:52 DOWN AND DO THEIR HOMEWORK AND GO TALK TO THE TEACHERS AND FIND 13:41:56 OUT HOW THEY'RE DOING AND IF WE DON'T START INSTILLING A SENSE 13:41:59 IN OUR YOUNG CHILDREN, THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED 13:42:04 ABOUT IN EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, I DON'T KNOW WHO 13:42:07 CAUGHT THEM THAT READING AND WRITING AND CONJUGATING YOUR 13:42:11 VERBS WAS ACTING WHITE, WE'VE GOT TO GET OVER THAT MENTALITY. 13:42:14 WE'VE GOT TO DO FOR OURSEOURSEL. THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE MOSES 13:42:19 GENERATION TEACHES US, NOT SAYING TO OURSELVES WE CAN'T DO 13:42:23 SOMETHING BUT TELLING OURSELVES THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE. 13:42:27 WE CAN DO THAT. WE'VE GOT POWER IN OUR HANDS. 13:42:36 FOLKS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR GOVERNMENT. 13:42:39 I UNDERSTAND THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE COMPLAINING ABOUT. 13:42:45 I'M IN WASHINGTON. I SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 13:42:48 I SEE THOSE POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES HAVE SNUCK BACK 13:42:52 IN THERE. THAT THEY'RE WRITING THE ENERGY 13:42:55 BILLS AND THE DRUG LAWS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT. 13:42:58 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, I ALSO KNOW THAT IF COUSIN POOKIE WOULD 13:43:05 VOTE, IF UNCLE JETHRO WOULD GET OFF THE COUCH AND STOP WATCHING 13:43:12 "SPORTSCENTER" AND GO REGISTER SOME FOLKS AND GO TO THE POLLS, 13:43:15 WE MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF POLITICS. 13:43:18 THAT'S WHAT THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US. 13:43:23 KICK OFF YOUR BEDROOM SLIPPERS, PUT ON YOUR MARCHING SHOES, GO 13:43:28 DO SOME POLITICS, CHANGE THIS COUNTRY. 13:43:30 THAT'S WHAT THEY TEACH US. WE'VE GOT TOO MANY CHILDREN IN 13:43:39 POVERTY IN THIS COUNTRY, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ASHAMED. 13:43:43 BUT DON'T TELL ME EARTH DOESN'T HAVE A LITTLE TO DO WITH THE 13:43:46 FACT THAT WE GOT TOO MANY DADDIES NOT ACTING LIKE DADDIES. 13:43:53 I THINK THAT -- THINK THAT FATHERHOOD ENDS AT CONCEPTION, I 13:43:59 KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE MY FATHER WASN'T AROUND 13:44:02 WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND I STRUGGLED. 13:44:07 THOSE OF YOU WHO READ MY BOOK KNOW. 13:44:09 I WENT THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT TIMES. 13:44:11 I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A STRONG MALE FIGURE 13:44:15 IN THE HOUSE, WHICH IS WHY THE HARDEST THING ABOUT ME BEING IN 13:44:19 POLITICS SOMETIMES IS NOT BEING HOME AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE AND I'M 13:44:22 JUST BLESSED THAT I'VE GOT SUCH A WONDERFUL WIFE AT HOME TO HOLD 13:44:26 THINGS TOGETHER, BUT DON'T TELL ME THAT WE CAN'T DO BETTER BY 13:44:36 OUR CHILDREN, THAT WE CAN'T TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE 13:44:40 WE'RE INSTILLING IN THEM THE VALUES AND THE IDEAS THAT THE 13:44:43 MOSES GENERATION TAUGHT US ABOUT SACRIFICE AND DIGNITY AND 13:44:47 HONESTY AND HARD WORK AND DISCIPLINE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. 13:44:51 THAT COMES FROM US. WE'VE GOT TO TRANSMIT THAT TO 13:44:56 THE NEXT GENERATION AND I GUESS THE POINT THAT I'M MAKE 13:44:58 SOMETHING THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WASN'T JUST A FIGHT 13:45:03 AGAINST THE OPPRESSOR, IT WAS ALSO A FIGHT AGAINST THE 13:45:06 OPPRESSOR IN EACH OF US. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S EASY TO 13:45:12 JUST POINT AT SOMEBODY ELSE AND SAY, IT'S THERE THEIR FAULT BUT 13:45:17 OPPRESSION HAS A WAY OF CREEPING INTO YOU, REVEREND. 13:45:19 IT HAS A WAY OF STUNTING YOURSELF. 13:45:23 YOU START TELLING YOURSELF, BISHOP, I CAN'T DO SOMETHING. 13:45:27 I CAN'T READ, I CAN'T -- I CAN'T GO TO COLLEGE. 13:45:30 I CAN'T START A BUSINESS. I CAN'T RUN FOR CONGRESS. 13:45:33 I CAN'T RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, PEOPLE START TELLING YOU CAN'T 13:45:38 DO SOMETHING, AFTER A WHILE, YOU TART BELIEVING IT. 13:45:44 AND PART OF WHAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS ABOUT WAS 13:45:47 RECOGNIZING THAT WE HAVE TO TRANSFORM OURSELVES IN ORDER TO 13:45:50 TRANSFORM THE WORLD. MAHATMA GANDHI, THE GREAT HERO 13:45:57 OF DR. KING AND THE PERSON WHO HELPED CREATE THE NONVIOLENT 13:46:03 MOVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD, HE ONCE SAID THAT "YOU CAN'T CHANGE 13:46:07 THE WORLD IF YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED. 13:46:10 IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, THE CHANGE HAS TO HAPPEN WITH 13:46:13 YOU FIRST." AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE 13:46:19 GREATEST AND MOST HONORABLE OF GENERATIONS HAS TAUGHT US. 13:46:26 BUT THE FINAL THING THAT I THINK THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US 13:46:29 IS TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE DO WHAT WE DO BECAUSE GOD IS 13:46:35 WITH US. YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES WAS FIRST 13:46:41 CALLED TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT OF THE PROMISED LAND, HE SAID, "I DON'T 13:46:45 THINK I CAN DO IT, LORD. I DON'T SPEAK LIKE REVEREND 13:46:49 LOWERY. I DON'T -- I DON'T FEEL BRAVE 13:46:53 AND COURAGEOUS" AND THE LORD SAID "I WILL BE WITH YOU. 13:46:59 THROW DOWN THAT ROD, PICK IT BACK UP. 13:47:03 I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO." 13:47:06 AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:47:14 JOSHUA SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M SCARED. 13:47:17 I'M NOT SURE THAT I AM UP TO THE CHALLENGE, AND THE LORD SAID TO 13:47:25 HIM, EVERY PLACE THAT THE SOUL OF YOUR FOOT WILL TREAD UPON, I 13:47:31 HAVE GIVEN YOU. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I 13:47:36 AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:47:43 THAT'S A PRAYER FOR A JOURNEY, A PRAYER THAT KEPT A WOMAN IN HER 13:47:47 SEAT WHEN THE BUS DRIVER TOLD HER TO GET UP, A PRAYER THAT LED 13:47:50 NINE CHILDREN THROUGH THE DOORS OF A LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL, A 13:47:53 PRAYER THAT CARRIED OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER A BRIDGE RIGHT 13:47:57 HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE WHEN 13:48:02 YOU SEE ROW AND ROW OF STATE TROOPER FACING YOU, YOU SEE THE 13:48:07 HORSES AND THE TEAR GAS, HOW ELSE CAN YOU WALK TOWARDS THEM 13:48:10 UNARMED AND UNAFRAID? WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU AND 13:48:13 START BEATING YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR NEIGHBORS HOW ELSE CAN YOU 13:48:17 SIMPLY KNEEL DOWN, BOW YOUR HEAD AND ASK THE LORD FOR SALVATION 13:48:20 WHEN YOU SEE HEADS GASHED OPEN AND EYES BURNING AND LITTLE 13:48:24 CHILDREN LYING HURT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WHEN YOU'RE JOHN 13:48:28 LEWIS AND YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE ON 13:48:31 SUNDAY HOW DO YOU WAKE UP ON MONDAY AND KEEP ON MARCHING? 13:48:34 BE STRONG, AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. 13:48:41 WE'VE COME A LONG WAY IN THIS JOURNEY, BUT WE STILL HAVE A 13:48:46 LONG WAY TO TRAVEL. WE TRAVEL BECAUSE GOD WAS WITH 13:48:52 US. IT'S NOT HOW FAR WE'VE COME THIS 13:48:55 FAR ON OUR JOURNEY. THAT BRIDGE OUTSIDE WAS CROSSED 13:48:58 BY BLACKS AND WHITES, NORTHERNERS AND SOUTHERNERS, 13:49:01 TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN, SHOPKEEPERS AND JANITORS, A 13:49:04 BELOVED COMMUNITY OF GOD'S CHILDREN WILLING TO TAKE THOSE 13:49:07 STEPS TOGETHER. BUT IT WAS LEFT TO THE JOSHUAS 13:49:12 TO FINISH THE JOURNEY MOSES HAD BEGUN AND TODAY WE'RE CALLED TO 13:49:15 BE THE JOSHUAS OF OUR TIME, TO BE THE GENERATION THAT FINDS OUR 13:49:19 WAY ACROSS THIS RIVER, THERE WILL BE DAYS WHEN THE WATER 13:49:23 SEEMS WIDE AND THE JOURNEY TOO FAR, BUT IN THOSE MOMENTS WE 13:49:27 MUST REMEMBER THAT THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, THERE HAS BEEN A 13:49:31 RUNNING THREAD OF IDEALS THAT HAVE GUIDED OUR TRAVELS AND 13:49:35 PUSHED US FORWARD EVEN WHEN THEY'RE JUST BEYOND OUR REACH, 13:49:40 LIBERTY IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY, EQUALITY IN THE FACE OF BITTER 13:49:44 INJUSTICE, OPPORTUNITY WHERE THERE WAS NONE AND HOPE OVER THE 13:49:46 MOST CRUSHING DE SPARE, THOSE IDEALS, THOSE VALUES, THEY 13:49:50 BECKON US STILL, AND WHEN WE HAVE OUR DOUBTS AND OUR FEARS, 13:49:53 JUST LIKE JOSHUA DID, WHEN THE ROAD LOOKS TOO LONG AND IT SEEMS 13:49:57 LIKE WE MAY LOSE OUR WAY, REMEMBER WHAT THESE PEOPLE DID 13:50:01 ON THAT BRIDGE, KEEPING YOUR H 13:50:07 HEART, THE PRAYER OF THAT JOURNEY, THE PRAYER THAT GOD 13:50:09 GAVE TO JOSHUA, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF 13:50:16 INJUSTICE, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF PREJUDICE 13:50:21 AND HATRED, IN THE FACE OF JOBLESSNESS AND HELPLESSNESS AND 13:50:28 HOPELESSNESS, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:50:30 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED TODAY IN THE FACE 13:50:34 OF OUR DOUBTS AND FEARS, IN THE FACE OF SKEPTICISM, IN THE FACE 13:50:39 OF CYNICISM, IN THE FACE OF A MIGHTY RIVER, BE STRONG AND HAVE 13:50:44 COURAGE AND LET US CROSS OVER THAT PROMISED LAND TOGETHER. 13:50:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY. GOD BLESS YOU. END SENATOR BARACK OBAMA

Drone shot of the Cooper River Bridge, officially the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, US, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant.

[VOTE 2008 / OBAMA AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA] [SELMA, ALA USA] FTG OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-ILL) AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA 12:28:32 Obama standing 12:29:01 Obama sits back down 12:41:55 Obama receiving a standing ovation 12:42:08 Obama smiling and laughing 12:46:07 Obama standing behind preacher 12:46:21 Obama clapping and sitting back down 12:52:41 Obama clapping 13:16:19 I want to start by saying I want to thank him for his support . 13:17:14 Somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage . 13:17:39 To all the distinguished guests and clergy. I'm not sure I'm going to thank the . because he stole the show . nervous about following so many great clergy men .. 13:18:31 Thanks you very much for letting me speak . after I announced I was running for president of the united states . drawing from script 13:19:24 I acknowledge there is a certain amount of presumptuousness with this . his son is now preacher at my church . I got a letter giving me encouragement telling me how proud he was and reminded me to stay true to my ideals . tell them to look at the story of Joshua . 13:20:37 So I just want to talk a little bit about . we are in the presence today of a lot of Moses' . people who battle on behalf of all of America . endured taunts and torments . gave full measure of their devotion . who said that some are atop and some are at the bottom and that's how it will always be . 13:22:53 They wondered through a desert and knowing that god was with them . and it's because they marched that the next generation has not been as bloodied . it's because they marched that I stand here today . 13:23:54 Because not only is my career the result of the men and women we honor here today, my very existence might not have happened . you don't understand, my grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya . 13:25:24 Yet something happened here in Selma Alabama . 13:26:25 Worried folks in the white house, we're fighting communism . the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift . this young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets . 13:27:46 Don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma Alabama . I'm here because ya'll sacrificed or me . I stand on your shoulders . 13:32:36 Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence, you have to fill that . second thing is the principals of equality is not a one sided thing . 13:33:43 They have basically spent all their time worrying about affirmative action . reminds us we still have a lot work to do . we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough . that is something that we have got to continue to work on 13:35:40 Third thing, we fought for civil rights, but we still have a lot of economic rights to work for . we've got what's know as a health care disparity . life expectancy is lower in the minorities . we have fewer teachers and text books in the schools . health care gap and achievement gap 13:37:00 New Orleans still looks bombed out . when 9-11 happened, they waived any requirement . because they understood . federal government says where's your 10%. There's an empathy gap . 13:38:02 Not a gap the American people felt . the government was the problem . because many of those communities . hope gap . 13:38:40 The question is, what are we the Joshua generation doing to close the gap .. Are we ensuring . and giving a second chance 13:39:29 Government can help . make sure the government is responsive . it's enough to ask with the government can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves . 13:41:24 I tell you what, even as I fight for more education funding . if parents don't turn off the television set . it we don't instill a sense in our young children . we've got to get over that mentality . 13:42:14 Telling ourselves we can achieve . we can do that. We can achieve. 13:42:37 I'm in Washington, I see what's going on . I also know that cousin poky wasn't voting . kick off your marching slippers, put on your marching shoes . 13:43:44 They think that fatherhood ends at conception . I went through some difficult times . 13:44:53 It wasn't just a fight against the oppressor, it was a fight against the oppressor in all of us . it has a way of stunting yourself . part of what the civil rights movement was realizing you have to change more then just ourselves . 13:46:04 That is something that the greatest and the most honorable of generations has taught us . we do what we do because God is with us . 13:46:56 The same thing happened with the Joshua generation . not sure I can do this . be strong and have courage . that's a prayer for a journey . 13:48:31 We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to go . that bridge was crossed . and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our generation .. Liberty in the face of injustice . 13:49:56 Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey . be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice . hopelessness 13:50:29 In the face of a mighty river, be strong and have courage and lets cross that bridge together, thank you 13:50:55 Obama embracing various members of the clergy on stage 13:51:37 Obama sits back down 13:56:42 Obama head down in prayer and song SEGMENT [1] 2007/03/04 ************************************************ SENATOR BARACK OBAMA SPEAKING AT THE BROWN CHAPEL IN SELMA, ALABAMA 13:16:08 SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: I MUST BEGIN BECAUSE AT THE 13:16:16 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS MORNING, I WAS SAVING HIM FOR LAST AND THE 13:16:20 LIST OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WAS SO LONG, I LEFT HIM OUT AFTER THAT 13:16:25 INTRODUCTION, SO I'M GOING TO START BY SAYING HOW MUCH I 13:16:29 APPRECIATE THE FRIENDSHIP AND THE SUPPORT AND THE OUTSTANDING 13:16:33 WORK THAT HE DOES EACH AND EVERY DAY, NOT JUST IN CAPITOL HILL 13:16:39 BUT ALSO BACK HERE IN THE DISTRICT, PLEASE GIVE A WARM 13:16:42 ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN ARTUR DAVIS. 13:16:45 [ APPLAUSE ] IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE, 13:16:58 REVEREND JACKSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TO THE FAMILY OF BROWN 13:17:04 AM & E AND BISHOP KIRKLAND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL 13:17:09 MESSAGE AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE OF THE 13:17:16 GREAT HEROS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND AMERICAN LIFE, SOMEBODY WHO 13:17:29 CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF DECENCY AND COURAGE, SOMEBODY WHO I HAVE 13:17:35 ADMIRED ALL MY LIFE AND WERE IT NOT FOR HIM I'M NOT SURE I WOULD 13:17:41 BE HERE TODAY, CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, I'M THANKFUL TO HIM. 13:17:44 [ APPLAUSE ] TO ALL THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS 13:17:51 AND CLERGY, I'M NOT SURE I'M GOING TO THANK REVEREND LOWERY 13:17:56 BECAUSE HE STOLE THE SHOW. [ LAUGHTER ] 13:18:06 I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER I KNOW WE'VE GOT C.T. VIVIAN AND ALL 13:18:11 THIS. WHEN YOU HAVE TO SPEAK IN FRONT 13:18:12 OF SOMEBODY WHO MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID WAS THE GREATEST 13:18:15 PREACHER HE EVER HEARD THEN YOU GOT SOME PROBLEMS, AND I'M A 13:18:19 LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT FOLLOWING SO MANY GREAT PREACHERS. 13:18:28 BUT I AM HOPING THAT THE SPIRIT MOVES ME. 13:18:31 TO ALL MY CONGRESSIONAL COLLEAGUES AND OTHER ELECTED 13:18:34 OFFICIALS WERE HERE, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO HAVE GIVEN ME SUCH A 13:18:38 WARM WELCOME, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TO 13:18:42 YOU HERE TODAY. YOU KNOW, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, 13:18:50 AFTER I HAD ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF 13:18:55 THE UNITED STATES, I STOOD IN FRONT OF THE OLD STATE CAPITOL 13:18:59 IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DELIVERED HIS 13:19:05 SPEECH DECLARING DASH DRAWING FROM SCRIPTURE THAT A HOUSE 13:19:09 DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF COULD NOT STAND, AND I STOOD AND I 13:19:13 ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY, AND THERE WERE A 13:19:17 LOT OF COMMENTATORS AS THEY ARE PRONE TO DO WHO QUESTIONED THE 13:19:24 AUDACITY OF A YOUNG MAN LIKE MYSELF, HADN'T BEEN IN 13:19:29 WASHINGTON TOO LONG AND I ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE'S A 13:19:34 CERTAIN PRESUMPTUOUSNESS ABOUT THIS, BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM A 13:19:40 FRIEND OF SOME OF YOURS NAMED REVEREND OTIS MALSH JR. IN 13:19:49 CLEVELAND, ILLINOIS, AND HIS SON, OTIS MOSS III IS NOW 13:19:54 PASTORING AT MY CHURCH, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST AND I 13:19:59 MUST SEND GREETINGS FROM OUR SENIOR PASTOR DR. INJURE MYA A. 13:20:05 WRIGHT JR., BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM REVEREND OTIS MOSS JR. 13:20:10 GIVING ME ENCOURAGEMENT AND SAYING HOW PROUD HE WAS THAT I 13:20:15 HAD ANNOUNCED, AND ENCOURAGING ME TO STAY TRUE TO MY IDEALS AND 13:20:23 MY VALUES AND NOT TO BE FEARFUL AND HE SAID IF THERE'S SOME 13:20:29 FOLKS OUT THERE WHO ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT YOU 13:20:34 SHOULD RUN, JUST TELL THEM TO LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOSHUA. 13:20:43 BECAUSE YOU'RE PART OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:20:47 AND SO I JUST WANT TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT MOSES AND AARON AND 13:20:53 JOSHUA. BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE 13:21:00 TODAY OF A LOT OF MOSESS. WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE TODAY OF 13:21:08 GIANTS WHOSE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON, PEOPLE WHO BATTLED ON 13:21:17 BEHALF, NOT JUST OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, BUT ON BEHALF 13:21:21 OF ALL OF AMERICA, THAT BATTLED FOR AMERICA'S SOUL, THAT SHED 13:21:31 BLOOD, THAT ENDURED TAUNTS AND TORMENT AND IN SOME CASES GAVE 13:21:37 THE FULL MEASURE OF THEIR DEVOTION. 13:21:41 LIKE MOSES, THEY CHALLENGED FARROW, THE PRINCES AND POWERS, 13:21:51 WHO SAID THAT SOME ARE ATOP AND OTHERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM, AND 13:21:57 THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE. 13:22:00 THERE WERE PEOPLE LIKE ANNA COOPER AND MARIE FOSTER AND 13:22:05 JIMMY LEE JACKSON AND MAURICE OLETT, C.T. VIVIAN, REVEREND 13:22:13 LOWERY, JOHN LEWIS, WHO SAID WE CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, 13:22:19 THAT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE FOR US TOO. 13:22:23 THAT GOD HAS MADE US IN HIS IMAGE, AND THAT WE REJECT THE 13:22:28 NOTION THAT WE WILL FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES BE CONFINED TO A 13:22:33 STATION OF INFERIORITY, THAT WE CAN ASPIRE TO THE HIGHEST OF 13:22:39 HEIGHTS THAT OUR TALENTS CAN BE EXPRESSED TO THEIR FULLEST. 13:22:45 AND SO BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY ENDURED, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY 13:22:50 MARCHED, THEY LED A PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:22:56 THEY TOOK THEM ACROSS A SEA THAT FOLKS THOUGHT COULD NOT BE 13:23:02 PARTED. THEY WANDERED THROUGH A DESERT, 13:23:06 BUT ALWAYS KNOWING THAT GOD WAS WITH THEM AND THAT IF THEY 13:23:11 MAINTAINED THAT TRUST IN GOD, THAT THEY WOULD BE ALL RIGHT. 13:23:17 AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT THE NEXT GENERATION HASN'T 13:23:25 BEEN BLOODED SO MUCH. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT 13:23:28 WE ELECTED COUNCILMEN AND CONGRESSMEN. 13:23:32 IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT WE HAVE ARTUR DAVIS AND KEITH 13:23:37 ELLISON. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I 13:23:39 GOT THE KIND OF EDUCATION I GOT, THAT I GOT A LAW DEGREE AND A 13:23:45 SEAT IN THE ILLINOIS SENATE AND ULTIMATELY IN THE UNITED STATES 13:23:48 SENATE IS BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU HERE 13:23:50 TODAY. AND I WAS MENTIONING AT THE 13:24:02 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS IMPORTANT, MY DEBT IS EVEN GREATER THAN 13:24:05 THAT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS MY CAREER THE RESULT OF THE WORK OF 13:24:13 THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WE HONOR HERE TODAY, MY VERY EXISTENCE 13:24:21 MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SOME OF THE 13:24:24 FOLKS HERE TODAY. I MENTIONED AT THE UNITY 13:24:28 BREAKFAST THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING, WELL, YOU 13:24:31 KNOW, YOUR FATHER WAS FROM AFRICA, YOUR MOTHER, SHE'S A 13:24:35 WHITE WOMAN FROM KANSAS, I'M NOT SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME 13:24:39 EXPERIENCE, AND I TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT. 13:24:41 YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU SEE, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A 13:24:45 COOK TO THE BRITISH IN KENYA, GREW UP IN A SMALL VILLAGE, AND 13:24:52 ALL HIS LIFE THAT'S ALL HE WAS WAS A COOK AND A HOUSEBOY AND 13:24:56 THAT'S WHAT THEY CALLED HIM EVEN WHEN HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD THEY 13:25:00 CALLED HIM A HOUSEBOY. WOULDN'T CALL HIM BY HIS LAST 13:25:05 NAME. CALLED HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME. 13:25:08 SOUND FAMILIAR? AND HE HAD TO CARRY A PASSBOOK 13:25:14 AROUND, BECAUSE AFRICANS IN THEIR OWN LAND IN THEIR OWN 13:25:17 COUNTRY AT THAT TIME BECAUSE IT WAS A BRITISH COLONY COULD NOT 13:25:22 MOVE ABOUT FREELY. THEY COULD ONLY GO WHERE THEY 13:25:25 WERE TOLD TO G THEY COULD ONLY WORK WHERE THEY WERE TOLD TO 13:25:31 WORK, AND YET SOMETHING HAPPENED BACK HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA, 13:25:37 SOMETHING HAPPENED IN BIRMINGHAM THAT SENT OUT WHAT BOBBY KENNEDY 13:25:41 CALLED RIPPLES OF HOPE ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 13:25:44 SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN A BUNCH OF WOMEN DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO 13:25:49 WALK INSTEAD OF RIDE THE BUS AFTER A LONG DAY OF DOING 13:25:53 SOMEBODY ELSE'S LAUNDRY AND LOOKING AFTER SOMEBODY ELSE'S 13:25:55 CHILDREN WHEN MEN WHO HAD Ph.D.s WERE WORKING AS PORTERS DECIDED 13:26:01 THAT'S ENOUGH AND WE'RE GOING TO STAND UP DESPITE THE RISKS FOR 13:26:04 OUR DIGNITY AND I RESPECT THAT CENTER SHOUT ACROSS OCEANS SO 13:26:10 THAT MY GRANDFATHER BEGAN TO IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR 13:26:14 HIS SON AND HIS SON WHO GREW UP HERDING GOATS IN A SMALL VILLAGE 13:26:19 IN AFRICA COULD SUDDENLY SET HIS SIGHTS A LITTLE HIGHER AND 13:26:24 SUDDENLY BELIEVE THAT MAYBE A BLACK MAN IN THIS WORLD HAD A 13:26:29 CHANCE, AND WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA AND BIRMINGHAM 13:26:33 ALSO STIRRED THE CONSCIENCE OF A NATION AND IT WORRIED FOLKS IN 13:26:38 THE WHITE HOUSE WHO SAID WE'RE BATTLING COMMUNISM, HOW ARE WE 13:26:41 GOING TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD IF 13:26:44 RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JOHN, WE'RE NOT OBSERVING THE 13:26:49 IDEALS THAT ARE SET FORTH IN OUR CONSTITUTION? 13:26:52 WE MIGHT BE ACCUSED OF BEING HYPOCRITES SO THE KENNEDYS 13:26:56 DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO DO AN AIRLIFT. 13:26:59 WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT TO AFRICA AND WE'RE GOING TO START 13:27:02 BRINGING YOUNG AFRICANS OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND BRING THEM 13:27:05 SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN WHAT A WONDERFUL 13:27:09 COUNTRY AMERICA IS AND THIS YOUNG MAN NAMED BARACK OBAMA GOT 13:27:13 ONE OF THOSE TICKETS AND CAME OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND HE MET 13:27:20 THIS WOMAN, WHOSE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER HAD 13:27:25 OWNED SLAVES, BUT SHE HAD A DIFFERENT IDEA. 13:27:29 THERE'S SOME GOOD CRAZINESS GOING ON BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AT 13:27:32 EACH OTHER AND THEY DECIDED, WE KNOW THAT IN THE WORLD AS IT HAS 13:27:36 BEEN IT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET TOGETHER AND HAVE 13:27:39 A CHILD, BUT SOMETHING IS STIRRING ACROSS THE COUNTRY 13:27:42 BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA, BECAUSE SOME 13:27:46 FOLKS ARE WILLING TO MARCH ACROSS THE BRIDGE. 13:27:49 AND SO THEY GOT TOGETHER AND BARACK OBAMA JR. WAS BORN. 13:27:55 SO DON'T TELL ME I DON'T HAVE A CLAIM ON SELMA, ALABAMA. 13:28:00 DON'T TELL ME I'M NOT COMING HOME WHEN I COME TO SELMA, 13:28:03 ALABAMA. I'M HERE BECAUSE SOMEBODY 13:28:06 MARCHED FOR OUR FREEDOM. I'M HERE BECAUSE Y'ALL 13:28:11 SACRIFICED FOR ME. I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF 13:28:19 THIS. I THANK THE MOSES GENERATION. 13:28:27 BUT WE GOT TO REMEMBER NOW THAT JOSHUA STILL HAD A JOB TO DO. 13:28:36 AS GREAT AS MOSES WAS, DESPITE ALL THAT HE DID, LEADING A 13:28:44 PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE, HE DIDN'T CROSS OVER THE RIVER TO SEE THE 13:28:51 PROMISED LAND. GOD TOLD HIM YOUR JOB IS DONE, 13:28:55 YOU'LL SEE IT. YOU'LL BE AT THE MOUNTAINTOP, 13:28:58 AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT I'VE PROMISED, WHAT I PROMISED TO 13:29:03 ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB AND I PROMISED TO YOU, YOU CAN SEE 13:29:07 THAT I WILL FULFILL THAT PROMISE. 13:29:10 BUT YOU WON'T GO THERE. WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE IT TO THE 13:29:14 JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS. 13:29:18 THERE'S STILL SOME BATTLES HA NEED TO BE FOUGHT, SOME RIVERS 13:29:21 THAT NEED TO BE CROSSED. LIKE MOSES, THE TASK WAS PASSED 13:29:27 ON TO THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AS DESERVING, MIGHT NOT 13:29:33 HAVE BEEN AS COURAGEOUS FIND THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF THE RISKS 13:29:37 THAT THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT 13:29:41 GRANDPARENTS HAD TAKEN, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY STILL DON'T 13:29:43 HAVE A BURDEN THAT THEY HAVE TO SHOULDER, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE 13:29:47 SOME RESPONSIBILITIES THE PREVIOUS GENERATION, THE MOSES 13:29:51 GENERATION POINTED THE WAY. THEY TOOK US 90% OF THE WAY 13:29:55 THERE, BUT WE STILL GOT THAT 10% IN ORDER TO CROSS OVER TO THE 13:30:00 OTHER SIDE. AND SO THE QUESTION, I GUESS, 13:30:05 THAT I HAVE TODAY IS WHAT'S CALLED OF US IN THIS JOSHUA 13:30:11 GENERATION? WHAT DO WE DO IN ORDER TO 13:30:13 FULFILL THAT LEGACY TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS AND THE DEBT 13:30:17 THAT WE OWE TO THOSE WHO ALLOWED US TO BE HERE TODAY? 13:30:22 NOW, I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVER FULLY REPAY THAT DEBT. 13:30:26 I THINK THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE LOOKING BACK, BUT THERE 13:30:33 ARE AT LEAST A FEW SUGGESTIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE IN TERMS OF 13:30:37 HOW WE MIGHT FULFILL THAT ENORMOUS LEGACY. 13:30:43 THE FIRST IS TO RECOGNIZE OUR HISTORY. 13:30:48 JOHN LEWIS TALKED ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY, BUT I WORRY 13:30:52 SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WE COME DOWN TO 13:30:57 MARCH EVERY YEAR ONCE A YEAR. WE OCCASIONALLY CELEBRATE THE 13:31:05 VARIOUS EVENTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 13:31:08 WE CELEBRATE DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY, BUT IT STRIKES ME THAT 13:31:12 UNDERSTANDING OUR HISTORY AND KNOWING WHAT IT MEANS IS AN 13:31:15 EVERYDAY ACTIVITY. YOU NOTICE WHEN MOSES SPOKE TO 13:31:23 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, TELLING THEM THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO BE 13:31:30 GOING WITH THEM, HE LAID OUT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND 13:31:34 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE SAID, BISHOP, WAS HE SAID, "KNOW YOUR 13:31:39 PAST. KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM. 13:31:41 KNOW HOW YOU WERE LED OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:31:45 KNOW HOW PHARAOH REFUSED TO LET YOU GO AND THAT GOD CAME DOWN 13:31:49 AND VISITED ALL MANNER OF PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE UNTIL FINALLY A 13:31:54 PEOPLE WERE FREED." MOSES TOLD THE JOSHUA 13:32:00 GENERATION, DON'T FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM, AND I WORRY 13:32:04 SOMETIMES THAT THE JOSHUA GENERATION IN ITS SUCCESS 13:32:08 FORGETS WHERE IT CAME FROM. THINKS IT DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE 13:32:12 AS MANY SACRIFICES, THINKS THAT THE VERY HEIGHT OF AMBITION IS 13:32:18 TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU CAN, TO DRIVE THE BIGGEST CAR 13:32:23 AND HAVE THE BIGGEST HOUSE AND WEAR A ROLEX WATCH AND GET YOUR 13:32:28 OWN PRIVATE JET, GET SOME OF THAT OPRAH MONEY, AND I THINK 13:32:37 THAT'S A GOOD THING. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH 13:32:40 MAKING MONEY BUT IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THEN YOU KNOW THAT 13:32:44 THERE'S A CERTAIN POVERTY OF AMBITION INVOLVED IN SIMPLY 13:32:50 STRIVING JUST FOR MONEY, MATERIALISM ALONE WILL NOT 13:32:58 FULFILL THE POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 13:33:01 YOU HAVE TO FILL THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 13:33:02 YOU HAVE TO FILL IT WITH THE GOLAN RULE. 13:33:05 YOU GOT TO FILL IT WITH THINKING ABOUT OTHERS, AND IF WE KNOW OUR 13:33:10 HISTORY, THEN WE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE HIGHEST MARK OF 13:33:16 SERVICE. SECOND THING THAT THE JOSHUA 13:33:19 GENERATION NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE PRINCIPLES OF 13:33:23 EQUALITY THAT WERE SET FORTH AND WERE BATTLED FOR HAVE TO BE 13:33:28 FOUGHT EACH AND EVERY DAY, IT IS NOT A ONE-TIME THING. 13:33:34 I WAS REMARKING AT THE UNITY BREAKFAST ON THE FACT THAT THE 13:33:40 SINGLE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONCERN THAT THIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 13:33:46 UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD WITH RESPECT TO 13:33:50 DISCRIMINATION HAS TO DO WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 13:33:53 THAT THEY HAVE BASICALLY SPENT ALL THEIR TIME WORRYING ABOUT 13:33:58 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE GIVEN A 13:34:01 LITTLE BREAK TO YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANICS 13:34:06 TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE TOO. 13:34:08 I HAD A SCHOOL IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THAT IT SET UP A 13:34:11 PROGRAM FOR Ph.D.s IN MATH AND SCIENCE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, 13:34:16 AND THE REASON THEY HAD SET IT UP IS BECAUSE WE ONLY HAD LESS 13:34:21 THAN 1% OF THE Ph.D.s, DOCTOR, IN SCIENCE AND MATH GO TO 13:34:27 AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE COMPETING IN A 13:34:30 GLOBAL ECONOMY -- WHEN WE'RE NOT JUST COMPETING AGAINST FOLKS IN 13:34:36 NORTH CAROLINA OR FLORIDA BUT IN CHINA AND INDIA AND WE NEED MATH 13:34:40 AND SCIENCE MAJORS, THIS UNIVERSITY THOUGHT THAT THIS 13:34:43 MIGHT BE A NICE THING TO DO, AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WROTE 13:34:46 THEM A LETTER SAYING WE ARE GOING TO THREATEN TO SUE YOU FOR 13:34:50 REVERSE DISCRIMINATION UNLESS YOU CEASE THIS PROGRAM, AND IT 13:34:56 REMINDS US THAT WE STILL GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO, AND THAT THE 13:35:02 BASIC ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS, THE 13:35:07 INJUSTICE THAT STILL EXISTS WITHIN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 13:35:11 SYSTEM, THE DISPARITY IN TERMS OF HOW PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN 13:35:17 THIS COUNTRY CONTINUES. IT HAS GOTTEN BETTER, AND WE 13:35:21 SHOULD NEVER DENY THAT IT'S GOTTEN BETTER, BUT WE SHOULDN'T 13:35:25 FORGET THAT BETTER IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, THAT UNTIL WE'VE GOT 13:35:30 ABSOLUTE EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY IN TERMS OF PEOPLE BEING 13:35:33 TREATED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR COLOR OR THEIR GENDER THAT THAT 13:35:37 IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON AND THE 13:35:42 JOSHUA GENERATION HAS A SIGNIFICANT TASK IN MAKING THAT 13:35:45 HAPPEN. THIRD THING, WE'VE GOT TO 13:35:51 RECOGNIZE THAT WE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, BUT WE'VE STILL 13:35:55 GOT A LOT OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH. 13:35:59 WE'VE GOT 46 -- 46 MILLION PEOPLE UNINSURED IN THIS COUNTRY 13:36:06 DESPITE SPENDING MORE MONEY ON HEALTH CARE THAN ANY NATION ON 13:36:08 EARTH. MAKES NO SENSE. 13:36:13 AS CONSEQUENCE WE'VE GOT WHAT'S KNOWN AS A HEALTH CARE DISPARITY 13:36:19 IN THIS NATION BECAUSE MANY OF THE UNINSURED ARE 13:36:23 AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR LATINO. LIFE EXPECTANCY IS LOWER, ALMOST 13:36:27 EVERY DISEASE IS HIGHER WITHIN MINORITY COMMUNITIES. 13:36:32 THE HEALTH CARE GAME. BLACKS ARE LESS LIKELY IN THEIR 13:36:35 SCHOOLS TO HAVE ADEQUATE FUNDING. 13:36:39 WE HAVE LESS QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:43 WE HAVE FEWER TEXTBOOKS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:47 WE GOT IN SOME SCHOOLS RATS OUTNUMBERING COMPUTERS. 13:36:52 THAT'S CALLED THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:36:55 YOU GOT A HEALTH CARE GAP. YOU'VE GOT AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:37:02 YOU'VE GOT KATRINA STILL UNDONE. WENT DUNN TO NEW ORLEANS THREE 13:37:11 WEEKS AGO. STILL LOOKS BOMBED OUT. 13:37:13 STILL NOT REBUILT. WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED, THE FEDERAL 13:37:19 GOVERNMENT HAS A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF GRANTS TO HELP REBUILD. 13:37:23 THEY WAIVED ANY REQUIREMENT THAT MANHATTAN WOULD HAVE TO PAY 10% 13:37:27 OF THE COST OF REBUILDING. WHEN HURRICANE FLORIDA -- 13:37:32 HURRICANE ANDREWS HAPPENED IN FLORIDA, 10% REQUIREMENT, THEY 13:37:36 WAIVED IT BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT SOME DISASTERS 13:37:39 ARE SO DEVASTATING THAT WE CAN'T EXPECT A COMMUNITY TO REBUILD. 13:37:46 NEW ORLEANS, THE LARGEST NATURAL CATASTROPHE IN OUR HISTORY, THE 13:37:52 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS, WHERE IS YOUR 10%? 13:37:58 THERE'S AN EMPATHY GAP. THERE'S A GAP IN TERMS OF 13:38:04 SYMPATHIZING FOR THOSE FOLKS IN NEW ORLEANS AS BAD AS 13:38:07 SYMPATHIZING WITH FOLKS ELSEWHERE. 13:38:09 IT'S NOT A GAP THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FELT BECAUSE WE SAW HOW 13:38:13 THEY RESPONDED. BUT SOMEHOW OUR GOVERNMENT 13:38:17 DIDN'T RESPOND WITH THAT SAME SENSE OF COMPASSION AND THAT 13:38:21 SAME SENSE OF KINDNESS. AND HERE'S THE WORST PART, THE 13:38:27 TRAGEDY IN NEW ORLEANS HAPPENED WELL BEFORE THE HURRICANE 13:38:32 STRUCK. BECAUSE MANY OF THOSE 13:38:34 COMMUNITIES THERE WERE SO MANY YOUNG MEN IN PRISON, SO MANY 13:38:38 KIDS DROPPING OUT, SO LITTLE HOPE, A HOPE GAP, A HOPE GAP 13:38:42 THAT STILL PERVADES TOO MANY COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE 13:38:45 COUNTRY AND RIGHT HERE IN ALABAMA. 13:38:49 SO THE QUESTION IS THEN, WHAT ARE WE THE JOSHUA GENERATION 13:38:53 DOING TO CLOSE THOSE GAPS? ARE WE DOING EVERY SINGLE THING 13:38:58 THAT WE CAN DO IN CONGRESS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT EARLY 13:39:02 EDUCATION IS ADEQUATELY FUNDED AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE 13:39:06 RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE SO IF SOMEBODY WORKS EACH AND EVERY 13:39:10 DAY THEY CAN HAVE SOME DIGNITY AND RESPECT? 13:39:12 ARE WE ENSURING IF SOMEBODY LOSES A JOB THAT THEY'RE GETTING 13:39:16 RETRAINED AND THAT IF THEY'VE LOST THEIR HEALTH CARE AND THEIR 13:39:21 PENSION THAT SOMEBODY IS THERE TO HELP THEM GET BACK ON THEIR 13:39:24 FEET? ARE WE MAKING SURE WE'RE GIVING 13:39:25 A SECOND CHANCE TO THOSE WHO HAVE STRAYED AND GONE TO PRISON 13:39:29 BUT WANT TO START A NEW LIFE? GOVERNMENT ALONE CAN'T SOLVE ALL 13:39:37 THOSE PROBLEMS, BUT GOVERNMENT CAN HELP, AND IT'S THE 13:39:41 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE 13:39:48 A GOVERNMENT AS RESPONSIBLE AS THE NEED EXISTS ALL ACROSS 13:39:52 AMERICA BUT THAT BRINGS ME TO ONE OTHER POINT THOUGH, JOSHUA 13:39:56 GENERATION, AND THAT IS THIS, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ENOUGH 13:40:01 JUST TO ASK WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR US, IT'S IMPORTANT 13:40:05 FOR US TO ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OURSELVES. 13:40:10 YET ONE OF THE SIGNATURE ASPECTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS 13:40:15 THE DEGREE OF DISCIPLINE AND FORTITUDE THAT WAS INSTILLED IN 13:40:21 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED. IMAGINE YOUNG PEOPLE, 16, 17, 13:40:29 20, 21 BACK STRAIGHT, EYES CLEAR, SUIT AND TIE SITTING DOWN 13:40:37 AT A LUNCH COUNTER KNOW BE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SPILL MILK 13:40:40 ON YOU BUT YOU HAVE THE DISCIPLINE TO UNDERSTAND THAT 13:40:43 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RETALIATE BECAUSE IN SHOWING THE WORLD HOW 13:40:48 DISCIPLINED WE WERE AS A PEOPLE, WE WERE ABLE TO WIN OVER THE 13:40:53 CONSCIENCE OF A NATION. I CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN THAT WE 13:41:00 HAVE INSTILLED THAT SAME SENSE OF MORAL CLARITY AND PURPOSE IN 13:41:05 THIS GENERATION. BISHOP, SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE 13:41:08 WE'VE LOST IT A LITTLE BIT. YOU KNOW, I'M FIGHTING TO MAKE 13:41:14 SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE ADEQUATELY FUNDED. 13:41:16 ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE HAVE INEQUITIES IN HOW SCHOOLS ARE 13:41:20 FUNDED BECAUSE IT'S RELIED ON PROPERTY TAXES AND PEOPLE WHO 13:41:23 HAPPEN TO BE BORN IN WEALTHY DISTRICTS, SOMEHOW THEY GET 13:41:28 BETTER SCHOOLS THAN FOLKS WHO ARE BORN IN POOR DISTRICTS AND 13:41:32 THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. 13:41:34 THAT'S NOT THE AMERICAN WAY, BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, EVEN AS I FIGHT 13:41:38 ON BEHALF OF MORE EDUCATION FUNDING, MORE EQUITY, I HAVE TO 13:41:42 ALSO SAY THAT IF PARENTS DON'T TURN OFF THE TELEVISION SET WHEN 13:41:47 THE CHILD COMES HOME FROM SCHOOL, AND MAKE SURE THEY SIT 13:41:52 DOWN AND DO THEIR HOMEWORK AND GO TALK TO THE TEACHERS AND FIND 13:41:56 OUT HOW THEY'RE DOING AND IF WE DON'T START INSTILLING A SENSE 13:41:59 IN OUR YOUNG CHILDREN, THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED 13:42:04 ABOUT IN EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, I DON'T KNOW WHO 13:42:07 CAUGHT THEM THAT READING AND WRITING AND CONJUGATING YOUR 13:42:11 VERBS WAS ACTING WHITE, WE'VE GOT TO GET OVER THAT MENTALITY. 13:42:14 WE'VE GOT TO DO FOR OURSEOURSEL. THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE MOSES 13:42:19 GENERATION TEACHES US, NOT SAYING TO OURSELVES WE CAN'T DO 13:42:23 SOMETHING BUT TELLING OURSELVES THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE. 13:42:27 WE CAN DO THAT. WE'VE GOT POWER IN OUR HANDS. 13:42:36 FOLKS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR GOVERNMENT. 13:42:39 I UNDERSTAND THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE COMPLAINING ABOUT. 13:42:45 I'M IN WASHINGTON. I SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 13:42:48 I SEE THOSE POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES HAVE SNUCK BACK 13:42:52 IN THERE. THAT THEY'RE WRITING THE ENERGY 13:42:55 BILLS AND THE DRUG LAWS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT. 13:42:58 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, I ALSO KNOW THAT IF COUSIN POOKIE WOULD 13:43:05 VOTE, IF UNCLE JETHRO WOULD GET OFF THE COUCH AND STOP WATCHING 13:43:12 "SPORTSCENTER" AND GO REGISTER SOME FOLKS AND GO TO THE POLLS, 13:43:15 WE MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF POLITICS. 13:43:18 THAT'S WHAT THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US. 13:43:23 KICK OFF YOUR BEDROOM SLIPPERS, PUT ON YOUR MARCHING SHOES, GO 13:43:28 DO SOME POLITICS, CHANGE THIS COUNTRY. 13:43:30 THAT'S WHAT THEY TEACH US. WE'VE GOT TOO MANY CHILDREN IN 13:43:39 POVERTY IN THIS COUNTRY, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ASHAMED. 13:43:43 BUT DON'T TELL ME EARTH DOESN'T HAVE A LITTLE TO DO WITH THE 13:43:46 FACT THAT WE GOT TOO MANY DADDIES NOT ACTING LIKE DADDIES. 13:43:53 I THINK THAT -- THINK THAT FATHERHOOD ENDS AT CONCEPTION, I 13:43:59 KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE MY FATHER WASN'T AROUND 13:44:02 WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND I STRUGGLED. 13:44:07 THOSE OF YOU WHO READ MY BOOK KNOW. 13:44:09 I WENT THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT TIMES. 13:44:11 I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A STRONG MALE FIGURE 13:44:15 IN THE HOUSE, WHICH IS WHY THE HARDEST THING ABOUT ME BEING IN 13:44:19 POLITICS SOMETIMES IS NOT BEING HOME AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE AND I'M 13:44:22 JUST BLESSED THAT I'VE GOT SUCH A WONDERFUL WIFE AT HOME TO HOLD 13:44:26 THINGS TOGETHER, BUT DON'T TELL ME THAT WE CAN'T DO BETTER BY 13:44:36 OUR CHILDREN, THAT WE CAN'T TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE 13:44:40 WE'RE INSTILLING IN THEM THE VALUES AND THE IDEAS THAT THE 13:44:43 MOSES GENERATION TAUGHT US ABOUT SACRIFICE AND DIGNITY AND 13:44:47 HONESTY AND HARD WORK AND DISCIPLINE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. 13:44:51 THAT COMES FROM US. WE'VE GOT TO TRANSMIT THAT TO 13:44:56 THE NEXT GENERATION AND I GUESS THE POINT THAT I'M MAKE 13:44:58 SOMETHING THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WASN'T JUST A FIGHT 13:45:03 AGAINST THE OPPRESSOR, IT WAS ALSO A FIGHT AGAINST THE 13:45:06 OPPRESSOR IN EACH OF US. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S EASY TO 13:45:12 JUST POINT AT SOMEBODY ELSE AND SAY, IT'S THERE THEIR FAULT BUT 13:45:17 OPPRESSION HAS A WAY OF CREEPING INTO YOU, REVEREND. 13:45:19 IT HAS A WAY OF STUNTING YOURSELF. 13:45:23 YOU START TELLING YOURSELF, BISHOP, I CAN'T DO SOMETHING. 13:45:27 I CAN'T READ, I CAN'T -- I CAN'T GO TO COLLEGE. 13:45:30 I CAN'T START A BUSINESS. I CAN'T RUN FOR CONGRESS. 13:45:33 I CAN'T RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, PEOPLE START TELLING YOU CAN'T 13:45:38 DO SOMETHING, AFTER A WHILE, YOU TART BELIEVING IT. 13:45:44 AND PART OF WHAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS ABOUT WAS 13:45:47 RECOGNIZING THAT WE HAVE TO TRANSFORM OURSELVES IN ORDER TO 13:45:50 TRANSFORM THE WORLD. MAHATMA GANDHI, THE GREAT HERO 13:45:57 OF DR. KING AND THE PERSON WHO HELPED CREATE THE NONVIOLENT 13:46:03 MOVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD, HE ONCE SAID THAT "YOU CAN'T CHANGE 13:46:07 THE WORLD IF YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED. 13:46:10 IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, THE CHANGE HAS TO HAPPEN WITH 13:46:13 YOU FIRST." AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE 13:46:19 GREATEST AND MOST HONORABLE OF GENERATIONS HAS TAUGHT US. 13:46:26 BUT THE FINAL THING THAT I THINK THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US 13:46:29 IS TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE DO WHAT WE DO BECAUSE GOD IS 13:46:35 WITH US. YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES WAS FIRST 13:46:41 CALLED TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT OF THE PROMISED LAND, HE SAID, "I DON'T 13:46:45 THINK I CAN DO IT, LORD. I DON'T SPEAK LIKE REVEREND 13:46:49 LOWERY. I DON'T -- I DON'T FEEL BRAVE 13:46:53 AND COURAGEOUS" AND THE LORD SAID "I WILL BE WITH YOU. 13:46:59 THROW DOWN THAT ROD, PICK IT BACK UP. 13:47:03 I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO." 13:47:06 AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:47:14 JOSHUA SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M SCARED. 13:47:17 I'M NOT SURE THAT I AM UP TO THE CHALLENGE, AND THE LORD SAID TO 13:47:25 HIM, EVERY PLACE THAT THE SOUL OF YOUR FOOT WILL TREAD UPON, I 13:47:31 HAVE GIVEN YOU. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I 13:47:36 AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:47:43 THAT'S A PRAYER FOR A JOURNEY, A PRAYER THAT KEPT A WOMAN IN HER 13:47:47 SEAT WHEN THE BUS DRIVER TOLD HER TO GET UP, A PRAYER THAT LED 13:47:50 NINE CHILDREN THROUGH THE DOORS OF A LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL, A 13:47:53 PRAYER THAT CARRIED OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER A BRIDGE RIGHT 13:47:57 HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE WHEN 13:48:02 YOU SEE ROW AND ROW OF STATE TROOPER FACING YOU, YOU SEE THE 13:48:07 HORSES AND THE TEAR GAS, HOW ELSE CAN YOU WALK TOWARDS THEM 13:48:10 UNARMED AND UNAFRAID? WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU AND 13:48:13 START BEATING YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR NEIGHBORS HOW ELSE CAN YOU 13:48:17 SIMPLY KNEEL DOWN, BOW YOUR HEAD AND ASK THE LORD FOR SALVATION 13:48:20 WHEN YOU SEE HEADS GASHED OPEN AND EYES BURNING AND LITTLE 13:48:24 CHILDREN LYING HURT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WHEN YOU'RE JOHN 13:48:28 LEWIS AND YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE ON 13:48:31 SUNDAY HOW DO YOU WAKE UP ON MONDAY AND KEEP ON MARCHING? 13:48:34 BE STRONG, AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. 13:48:41 WE'VE COME A LONG WAY IN THIS JOURNEY, BUT WE STILL HAVE A 13:48:46 LONG WAY TO TRAVEL. WE TRAVEL BECAUSE GOD WAS WITH 13:48:52 US. IT'S NOT HOW FAR WE'VE COME THIS 13:48:55 FAR ON OUR JOURNEY. THAT BRIDGE OUTSIDE WAS CROSSED 13:48:58 BY BLACKS AND WHITES, NORTHERNERS AND SOUTHERNERS, 13:49:01 TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN, SHOPKEEPERS AND JANITORS, A 13:49:04 BELOVED COMMUNITY OF GOD'S CHILDREN WILLING TO TAKE THOSE 13:49:07 STEPS TOGETHER. BUT IT WAS LEFT TO THE JOSHUAS 13:49:12 TO FINISH THE JOURNEY MOSES HAD BEGUN AND TODAY WE'RE CALLED TO 13:49:15 BE THE JOSHUAS OF OUR TIME, TO BE THE GENERATION THAT FINDS OUR 13:49:19 WAY ACROSS THIS RIVER, THERE WILL BE DAYS WHEN THE WATER 13:49:23 SEEMS WIDE AND THE JOURNEY TOO FAR, BUT IN THOSE MOMENTS WE 13:49:27 MUST REMEMBER THAT THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, THERE HAS BEEN A 13:49:31 RUNNING THREAD OF IDEALS THAT HAVE GUIDED OUR TRAVELS AND 13:49:35 PUSHED US FORWARD EVEN WHEN THEY'RE JUST BEYOND OUR REACH, 13:49:40 LIBERTY IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY, EQUALITY IN THE FACE OF BITTER 13:49:44 INJUSTICE, OPPORTUNITY WHERE THERE WAS NONE AND HOPE OVER THE 13:49:46 MOST CRUSHING DE SPARE, THOSE IDEALS, THOSE VALUES, THEY 13:49:50 BECKON US STILL, AND WHEN WE HAVE OUR DOUBTS AND OUR FEARS, 13:49:53 JUST LIKE JOSHUA DID, WHEN THE ROAD LOOKS TOO LONG AND IT SEEMS 13:49:57 LIKE WE MAY LOSE OUR WAY, REMEMBER WHAT THESE PEOPLE DID 13:50:01 ON THAT BRIDGE, KEEPING YOUR H 13:50:07 HEART, THE PRAYER OF THAT JOURNEY, THE PRAYER THAT GOD 13:50:09 GAVE TO JOSHUA, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF 13:50:16 INJUSTICE, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF PREJUDICE 13:50:21 AND HATRED, IN THE FACE OF JOBLESSNESS AND HELPLESSNESS AND 13:50:28 HOPELESSNESS, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:50:30 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED TODAY IN THE FACE 13:50:34 OF OUR DOUBTS AND FEARS, IN THE FACE OF SKEPTICISM, IN THE FACE 13:50:39 OF CYNICISM, IN THE FACE OF A MIGHTY RIVER, BE STRONG AND HAVE 13:50:44 COURAGE AND LET US CROSS OVER THAT PROMISED LAND TOGETHER. 13:50:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY. GOD BLESS YOU. END SENATOR BARACK OBAMA

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[VOTE 2008 / OBAMA AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA] [SELMA, ALA USA] FTG OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-ILL) AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA 12:28:32 Obama standing 12:29:01 Obama sits back down 12:41:55 Obama receiving a standing ovation 12:42:08 Obama smiling and laughing 12:46:07 Obama standing behind preacher 12:46:21 Obama clapping and sitting back down 12:52:41 Obama clapping 13:16:19 I want to start by saying I want to thank him for his support . 13:17:14 Somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage . 13:17:39 To all the distinguished guests and clergy. I'm not sure I'm going to thank the . because he stole the show . nervous about following so many great clergy men .. 13:18:31 Thanks you very much for letting me speak . after I announced I was running for president of the united states . drawing from script 13:19:24 I acknowledge there is a certain amount of presumptuousness with this . his son is now preacher at my church . I got a letter giving me encouragement telling me how proud he was and reminded me to stay true to my ideals . tell them to look at the story of Joshua . 13:20:37 So I just want to talk a little bit about . we are in the presence today of a lot of Moses' . people who battle on behalf of all of America . endured taunts and torments . gave full measure of their devotion . who said that some are atop and some are at the bottom and that's how it will always be . 13:22:53 They wondered through a desert and knowing that god was with them . and it's because they marched that the next generation has not been as bloodied . it's because they marched that I stand here today . 13:23:54 Because not only is my career the result of the men and women we honor here today, my very existence might not have happened . you don't understand, my grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya . 13:25:24 Yet something happened here in Selma Alabama . 13:26:25 Worried folks in the white house, we're fighting communism . the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift . this young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets . 13:27:46 Don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma Alabama . I'm here because ya'll sacrificed or me . I stand on your shoulders . 13:32:36 Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence, you have to fill that . second thing is the principals of equality is not a one sided thing . 13:33:43 They have basically spent all their time worrying about affirmative action . reminds us we still have a lot work to do . we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough . that is something that we have got to continue to work on 13:35:40 Third thing, we fought for civil rights, but we still have a lot of economic rights to work for . we've got what's know as a health care disparity . life expectancy is lower in the minorities . we have fewer teachers and text books in the schools . health care gap and achievement gap 13:37:00 New Orleans still looks bombed out . when 9-11 happened, they waived any requirement . because they understood . federal government says where's your 10%. There's an empathy gap . 13:38:02 Not a gap the American people felt . the government was the problem . because many of those communities . hope gap . 13:38:40 The question is, what are we the Joshua generation doing to close the gap .. Are we ensuring . and giving a second chance 13:39:29 Government can help . make sure the government is responsive . it's enough to ask with the government can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves . 13:41:24 I tell you what, even as I fight for more education funding . if parents don't turn off the television set . it we don't instill a sense in our young children . we've got to get over that mentality . 13:42:14 Telling ourselves we can achieve . we can do that. We can achieve. 13:42:37 I'm in Washington, I see what's going on . I also know that cousin poky wasn't voting . kick off your marching slippers, put on your marching shoes . 13:43:44 They think that fatherhood ends at conception . I went through some difficult times . 13:44:53 It wasn't just a fight against the oppressor, it was a fight against the oppressor in all of us . it has a way of stunting yourself . part of what the civil rights movement was realizing you have to change more then just ourselves . 13:46:04 That is something that the greatest and the most honorable of generations has taught us . we do what we do because God is with us . 13:46:56 The same thing happened with the Joshua generation . not sure I can do this . be strong and have courage . that's a prayer for a journey . 13:48:31 We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to go . that bridge was crossed . and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our generation .. Liberty in the face of injustice . 13:49:56 Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey . be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice . hopelessness 13:50:29 In the face of a mighty river, be strong and have courage and lets cross that bridge together, thank you 13:50:55 Obama embracing various members of the clergy on stage 13:51:37 Obama sits back down 13:56:42 Obama head down in prayer and song SEGMENT [1] 2007/03/04 ************************************************ SENATOR BARACK OBAMA SPEAKING AT THE BROWN CHAPEL IN SELMA, ALABAMA 13:16:08 SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: I MUST BEGIN BECAUSE AT THE 13:16:16 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS MORNING, I WAS SAVING HIM FOR LAST AND THE 13:16:20 LIST OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WAS SO LONG, I LEFT HIM OUT AFTER THAT 13:16:25 INTRODUCTION, SO I'M GOING TO START BY SAYING HOW MUCH I 13:16:29 APPRECIATE THE FRIENDSHIP AND THE SUPPORT AND THE OUTSTANDING 13:16:33 WORK THAT HE DOES EACH AND EVERY DAY, NOT JUST IN CAPITOL HILL 13:16:39 BUT ALSO BACK HERE IN THE DISTRICT, PLEASE GIVE A WARM 13:16:42 ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN ARTUR DAVIS. 13:16:45 [ APPLAUSE ] IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE, 13:16:58 REVEREND JACKSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TO THE FAMILY OF BROWN 13:17:04 AM & E AND BISHOP KIRKLAND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL 13:17:09 MESSAGE AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE OF THE 13:17:16 GREAT HEROS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND AMERICAN LIFE, SOMEBODY WHO 13:17:29 CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF DECENCY AND COURAGE, SOMEBODY WHO I HAVE 13:17:35 ADMIRED ALL MY LIFE AND WERE IT NOT FOR HIM I'M NOT SURE I WOULD 13:17:41 BE HERE TODAY, CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, I'M THANKFUL TO HIM. 13:17:44 [ APPLAUSE ] TO ALL THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS 13:17:51 AND CLERGY, I'M NOT SURE I'M GOING TO THANK REVEREND LOWERY 13:17:56 BECAUSE HE STOLE THE SHOW. [ LAUGHTER ] 13:18:06 I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER I KNOW WE'VE GOT C.T. VIVIAN AND ALL 13:18:11 THIS. WHEN YOU HAVE TO SPEAK IN FRONT 13:18:12 OF SOMEBODY WHO MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID WAS THE GREATEST 13:18:15 PREACHER HE EVER HEARD THEN YOU GOT SOME PROBLEMS, AND I'M A 13:18:19 LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT FOLLOWING SO MANY GREAT PREACHERS. 13:18:28 BUT I AM HOPING THAT THE SPIRIT MOVES ME. 13:18:31 TO ALL MY CONGRESSIONAL COLLEAGUES AND OTHER ELECTED 13:18:34 OFFICIALS WERE HERE, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO HAVE GIVEN ME SUCH A 13:18:38 WARM WELCOME, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TO 13:18:42 YOU HERE TODAY. YOU KNOW, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, 13:18:50 AFTER I HAD ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF 13:18:55 THE UNITED STATES, I STOOD IN FRONT OF THE OLD STATE CAPITOL 13:18:59 IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DELIVERED HIS 13:19:05 SPEECH DECLARING DASH DRAWING FROM SCRIPTURE THAT A HOUSE 13:19:09 DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF COULD NOT STAND, AND I STOOD AND I 13:19:13 ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY, AND THERE WERE A 13:19:17 LOT OF COMMENTATORS AS THEY ARE PRONE TO DO WHO QUESTIONED THE 13:19:24 AUDACITY OF A YOUNG MAN LIKE MYSELF, HADN'T BEEN IN 13:19:29 WASHINGTON TOO LONG AND I ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE'S A 13:19:34 CERTAIN PRESUMPTUOUSNESS ABOUT THIS, BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM A 13:19:40 FRIEND OF SOME OF YOURS NAMED REVEREND OTIS MALSH JR. IN 13:19:49 CLEVELAND, ILLINOIS, AND HIS SON, OTIS MOSS III IS NOW 13:19:54 PASTORING AT MY CHURCH, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST AND I 13:19:59 MUST SEND GREETINGS FROM OUR SENIOR PASTOR DR. INJURE MYA A. 13:20:05 WRIGHT JR., BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM REVEREND OTIS MOSS JR. 13:20:10 GIVING ME ENCOURAGEMENT AND SAYING HOW PROUD HE WAS THAT I 13:20:15 HAD ANNOUNCED, AND ENCOURAGING ME TO STAY TRUE TO MY IDEALS AND 13:20:23 MY VALUES AND NOT TO BE FEARFUL AND HE SAID IF THERE'S SOME 13:20:29 FOLKS OUT THERE WHO ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT YOU 13:20:34 SHOULD RUN, JUST TELL THEM TO LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOSHUA. 13:20:43 BECAUSE YOU'RE PART OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:20:47 AND SO I JUST WANT TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT MOSES AND AARON AND 13:20:53 JOSHUA. BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE 13:21:00 TODAY OF A LOT OF MOSESS. WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE TODAY OF 13:21:08 GIANTS WHOSE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON, PEOPLE WHO BATTLED ON 13:21:17 BEHALF, NOT JUST OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, BUT ON BEHALF 13:21:21 OF ALL OF AMERICA, THAT BATTLED FOR AMERICA'S SOUL, THAT SHED 13:21:31 BLOOD, THAT ENDURED TAUNTS AND TORMENT AND IN SOME CASES GAVE 13:21:37 THE FULL MEASURE OF THEIR DEVOTION. 13:21:41 LIKE MOSES, THEY CHALLENGED FARROW, THE PRINCES AND POWERS, 13:21:51 WHO SAID THAT SOME ARE ATOP AND OTHERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM, AND 13:21:57 THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE. 13:22:00 THERE WERE PEOPLE LIKE ANNA COOPER AND MARIE FOSTER AND 13:22:05 JIMMY LEE JACKSON AND MAURICE OLETT, C.T. VIVIAN, REVEREND 13:22:13 LOWERY, JOHN LEWIS, WHO SAID WE CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, 13:22:19 THAT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE FOR US TOO. 13:22:23 THAT GOD HAS MADE US IN HIS IMAGE, AND THAT WE REJECT THE 13:22:28 NOTION THAT WE WILL FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES BE CONFINED TO A 13:22:33 STATION OF INFERIORITY, THAT WE CAN ASPIRE TO THE HIGHEST OF 13:22:39 HEIGHTS THAT OUR TALENTS CAN BE EXPRESSED TO THEIR FULLEST. 13:22:45 AND SO BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY ENDURED, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY 13:22:50 MARCHED, THEY LED A PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:22:56 THEY TOOK THEM ACROSS A SEA THAT FOLKS THOUGHT COULD NOT BE 13:23:02 PARTED. THEY WANDERED THROUGH A DESERT, 13:23:06 BUT ALWAYS KNOWING THAT GOD WAS WITH THEM AND THAT IF THEY 13:23:11 MAINTAINED THAT TRUST IN GOD, THAT THEY WOULD BE ALL RIGHT. 13:23:17 AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT THE NEXT GENERATION HASN'T 13:23:25 BEEN BLOODED SO MUCH. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT 13:23:28 WE ELECTED COUNCILMEN AND CONGRESSMEN. 13:23:32 IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT WE HAVE ARTUR DAVIS AND KEITH 13:23:37 ELLISON. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I 13:23:39 GOT THE KIND OF EDUCATION I GOT, THAT I GOT A LAW DEGREE AND A 13:23:45 SEAT IN THE ILLINOIS SENATE AND ULTIMATELY IN THE UNITED STATES 13:23:48 SENATE IS BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU HERE 13:23:50 TODAY. AND I WAS MENTIONING AT THE 13:24:02 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS IMPORTANT, MY DEBT IS EVEN GREATER THAN 13:24:05 THAT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS MY CAREER THE RESULT OF THE WORK OF 13:24:13 THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WE HONOR HERE TODAY, MY VERY EXISTENCE 13:24:21 MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SOME OF THE 13:24:24 FOLKS HERE TODAY. I MENTIONED AT THE UNITY 13:24:28 BREAKFAST THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING, WELL, YOU 13:24:31 KNOW, YOUR FATHER WAS FROM AFRICA, YOUR MOTHER, SHE'S A 13:24:35 WHITE WOMAN FROM KANSAS, I'M NOT SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME 13:24:39 EXPERIENCE, AND I TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT. 13:24:41 YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU SEE, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A 13:24:45 COOK TO THE BRITISH IN KENYA, GREW UP IN A SMALL VILLAGE, AND 13:24:52 ALL HIS LIFE THAT'S ALL HE WAS WAS A COOK AND A HOUSEBOY AND 13:24:56 THAT'S WHAT THEY CALLED HIM EVEN WHEN HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD THEY 13:25:00 CALLED HIM A HOUSEBOY. WOULDN'T CALL HIM BY HIS LAST 13:25:05 NAME. CALLED HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME. 13:25:08 SOUND FAMILIAR? AND HE HAD TO CARRY A PASSBOOK 13:25:14 AROUND, BECAUSE AFRICANS IN THEIR OWN LAND IN THEIR OWN 13:25:17 COUNTRY AT THAT TIME BECAUSE IT WAS A BRITISH COLONY COULD NOT 13:25:22 MOVE ABOUT FREELY. THEY COULD ONLY GO WHERE THEY 13:25:25 WERE TOLD TO G THEY COULD ONLY WORK WHERE THEY WERE TOLD TO 13:25:31 WORK, AND YET SOMETHING HAPPENED BACK HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA, 13:25:37 SOMETHING HAPPENED IN BIRMINGHAM THAT SENT OUT WHAT BOBBY KENNEDY 13:25:41 CALLED RIPPLES OF HOPE ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 13:25:44 SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN A BUNCH OF WOMEN DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO 13:25:49 WALK INSTEAD OF RIDE THE BUS AFTER A LONG DAY OF DOING 13:25:53 SOMEBODY ELSE'S LAUNDRY AND LOOKING AFTER SOMEBODY ELSE'S 13:25:55 CHILDREN WHEN MEN WHO HAD Ph.D.s WERE WORKING AS PORTERS DECIDED 13:26:01 THAT'S ENOUGH AND WE'RE GOING TO STAND UP DESPITE THE RISKS FOR 13:26:04 OUR DIGNITY AND I RESPECT THAT CENTER SHOUT ACROSS OCEANS SO 13:26:10 THAT MY GRANDFATHER BEGAN TO IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR 13:26:14 HIS SON AND HIS SON WHO GREW UP HERDING GOATS IN A SMALL VILLAGE 13:26:19 IN AFRICA COULD SUDDENLY SET HIS SIGHTS A LITTLE HIGHER AND 13:26:24 SUDDENLY BELIEVE THAT MAYBE A BLACK MAN IN THIS WORLD HAD A 13:26:29 CHANCE, AND WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA AND BIRMINGHAM 13:26:33 ALSO STIRRED THE CONSCIENCE OF A NATION AND IT WORRIED FOLKS IN 13:26:38 THE WHITE HOUSE WHO SAID WE'RE BATTLING COMMUNISM, HOW ARE WE 13:26:41 GOING TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD IF 13:26:44 RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JOHN, WE'RE NOT OBSERVING THE 13:26:49 IDEALS THAT ARE SET FORTH IN OUR CONSTITUTION? 13:26:52 WE MIGHT BE ACCUSED OF BEING HYPOCRITES SO THE KENNEDYS 13:26:56 DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO DO AN AIRLIFT. 13:26:59 WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT TO AFRICA AND WE'RE GOING TO START 13:27:02 BRINGING YOUNG AFRICANS OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND BRING THEM 13:27:05 SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN WHAT A WONDERFUL 13:27:09 COUNTRY AMERICA IS AND THIS YOUNG MAN NAMED BARACK OBAMA GOT 13:27:13 ONE OF THOSE TICKETS AND CAME OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND HE MET 13:27:20 THIS WOMAN, WHOSE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER HAD 13:27:25 OWNED SLAVES, BUT SHE HAD A DIFFERENT IDEA. 13:27:29 THERE'S SOME GOOD CRAZINESS GOING ON BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AT 13:27:32 EACH OTHER AND THEY DECIDED, WE KNOW THAT IN THE WORLD AS IT HAS 13:27:36 BEEN IT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET TOGETHER AND HAVE 13:27:39 A CHILD, BUT SOMETHING IS STIRRING ACROSS THE COUNTRY 13:27:42 BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA, BECAUSE SOME 13:27:46 FOLKS ARE WILLING TO MARCH ACROSS THE BRIDGE. 13:27:49 AND SO THEY GOT TOGETHER AND BARACK OBAMA JR. WAS BORN. 13:27:55 SO DON'T TELL ME I DON'T HAVE A CLAIM ON SELMA, ALABAMA. 13:28:00 DON'T TELL ME I'M NOT COMING HOME WHEN I COME TO SELMA, 13:28:03 ALABAMA. I'M HERE BECAUSE SOMEBODY 13:28:06 MARCHED FOR OUR FREEDOM. I'M HERE BECAUSE Y'ALL 13:28:11 SACRIFICED FOR ME. I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF 13:28:19 THIS. I THANK THE MOSES GENERATION. 13:28:27 BUT WE GOT TO REMEMBER NOW THAT JOSHUA STILL HAD A JOB TO DO. 13:28:36 AS GREAT AS MOSES WAS, DESPITE ALL THAT HE DID, LEADING A 13:28:44 PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE, HE DIDN'T CROSS OVER THE RIVER TO SEE THE 13:28:51 PROMISED LAND. GOD TOLD HIM YOUR JOB IS DONE, 13:28:55 YOU'LL SEE IT. YOU'LL BE AT THE MOUNTAINTOP, 13:28:58 AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT I'VE PROMISED, WHAT I PROMISED TO 13:29:03 ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB AND I PROMISED TO YOU, YOU CAN SEE 13:29:07 THAT I WILL FULFILL THAT PROMISE. 13:29:10 BUT YOU WON'T GO THERE. WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE IT TO THE 13:29:14 JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS. 13:29:18 THERE'S STILL SOME BATTLES HA NEED TO BE FOUGHT, SOME RIVERS 13:29:21 THAT NEED TO BE CROSSED. LIKE MOSES, THE TASK WAS PASSED 13:29:27 ON TO THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AS DESERVING, MIGHT NOT 13:29:33 HAVE BEEN AS COURAGEOUS FIND THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF THE RISKS 13:29:37 THAT THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT 13:29:41 GRANDPARENTS HAD TAKEN, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY STILL DON'T 13:29:43 HAVE A BURDEN THAT THEY HAVE TO SHOULDER, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE 13:29:47 SOME RESPONSIBILITIES THE PREVIOUS GENERATION, THE MOSES 13:29:51 GENERATION POINTED THE WAY. THEY TOOK US 90% OF THE WAY 13:29:55 THERE, BUT WE STILL GOT THAT 10% IN ORDER TO CROSS OVER TO THE 13:30:00 OTHER SIDE. AND SO THE QUESTION, I GUESS, 13:30:05 THAT I HAVE TODAY IS WHAT'S CALLED OF US IN THIS JOSHUA 13:30:11 GENERATION? WHAT DO WE DO IN ORDER TO 13:30:13 FULFILL THAT LEGACY TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS AND THE DEBT 13:30:17 THAT WE OWE TO THOSE WHO ALLOWED US TO BE HERE TODAY? 13:30:22 NOW, I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVER FULLY REPAY THAT DEBT. 13:30:26 I THINK THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE LOOKING BACK, BUT THERE 13:30:33 ARE AT LEAST A FEW SUGGESTIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE IN TERMS OF 13:30:37 HOW WE MIGHT FULFILL THAT ENORMOUS LEGACY. 13:30:43 THE FIRST IS TO RECOGNIZE OUR HISTORY. 13:30:48 JOHN LEWIS TALKED ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY, BUT I WORRY 13:30:52 SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WE COME DOWN TO 13:30:57 MARCH EVERY YEAR ONCE A YEAR. WE OCCASIONALLY CELEBRATE THE 13:31:05 VARIOUS EVENTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 13:31:08 WE CELEBRATE DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY, BUT IT STRIKES ME THAT 13:31:12 UNDERSTANDING OUR HISTORY AND KNOWING WHAT IT MEANS IS AN 13:31:15 EVERYDAY ACTIVITY. YOU NOTICE WHEN MOSES SPOKE TO 13:31:23 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, TELLING THEM THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO BE 13:31:30 GOING WITH THEM, HE LAID OUT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND 13:31:34 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE SAID, BISHOP, WAS HE SAID, "KNOW YOUR 13:31:39 PAST. KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM. 13:31:41 KNOW HOW YOU WERE LED OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:31:45 KNOW HOW PHARAOH REFUSED TO LET YOU GO AND THAT GOD CAME DOWN 13:31:49 AND VISITED ALL MANNER OF PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE UNTIL FINALLY A 13:31:54 PEOPLE WERE FREED." MOSES TOLD THE JOSHUA 13:32:00 GENERATION, DON'T FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM, AND I WORRY 13:32:04 SOMETIMES THAT THE JOSHUA GENERATION IN ITS SUCCESS 13:32:08 FORGETS WHERE IT CAME FROM. THINKS IT DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE 13:32:12 AS MANY SACRIFICES, THINKS THAT THE VERY HEIGHT OF AMBITION IS 13:32:18 TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU CAN, TO DRIVE THE BIGGEST CAR 13:32:23 AND HAVE THE BIGGEST HOUSE AND WEAR A ROLEX WATCH AND GET YOUR 13:32:28 OWN PRIVATE JET, GET SOME OF THAT OPRAH MONEY, AND I THINK 13:32:37 THAT'S A GOOD THING. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH 13:32:40 MAKING MONEY BUT IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THEN YOU KNOW THAT 13:32:44 THERE'S A CERTAIN POVERTY OF AMBITION INVOLVED IN SIMPLY 13:32:50 STRIVING JUST FOR MONEY, MATERIALISM ALONE WILL NOT 13:32:58 FULFILL THE POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 13:33:01 YOU HAVE TO FILL THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 13:33:02 YOU HAVE TO FILL IT WITH THE GOLAN RULE. 13:33:05 YOU GOT TO FILL IT WITH THINKING ABOUT OTHERS, AND IF WE KNOW OUR 13:33:10 HISTORY, THEN WE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE HIGHEST MARK OF 13:33:16 SERVICE. SECOND THING THAT THE JOSHUA 13:33:19 GENERATION NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE PRINCIPLES OF 13:33:23 EQUALITY THAT WERE SET FORTH AND WERE BATTLED FOR HAVE TO BE 13:33:28 FOUGHT EACH AND EVERY DAY, IT IS NOT A ONE-TIME THING. 13:33:34 I WAS REMARKING AT THE UNITY BREAKFAST ON THE FACT THAT THE 13:33:40 SINGLE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONCERN THAT THIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 13:33:46 UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD WITH RESPECT TO 13:33:50 DISCRIMINATION HAS TO DO WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 13:33:53 THAT THEY HAVE BASICALLY SPENT ALL THEIR TIME WORRYING ABOUT 13:33:58 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE GIVEN A 13:34:01 LITTLE BREAK TO YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANICS 13:34:06 TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE TOO. 13:34:08 I HAD A SCHOOL IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THAT IT SET UP A 13:34:11 PROGRAM FOR Ph.D.s IN MATH AND SCIENCE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, 13:34:16 AND THE REASON THEY HAD SET IT UP IS BECAUSE WE ONLY HAD LESS 13:34:21 THAN 1% OF THE Ph.D.s, DOCTOR, IN SCIENCE AND MATH GO TO 13:34:27 AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE COMPETING IN A 13:34:30 GLOBAL ECONOMY -- WHEN WE'RE NOT JUST COMPETING AGAINST FOLKS IN 13:34:36 NORTH CAROLINA OR FLORIDA BUT IN CHINA AND INDIA AND WE NEED MATH 13:34:40 AND SCIENCE MAJORS, THIS UNIVERSITY THOUGHT THAT THIS 13:34:43 MIGHT BE A NICE THING TO DO, AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WROTE 13:34:46 THEM A LETTER SAYING WE ARE GOING TO THREATEN TO SUE YOU FOR 13:34:50 REVERSE DISCRIMINATION UNLESS YOU CEASE THIS PROGRAM, AND IT 13:34:56 REMINDS US THAT WE STILL GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO, AND THAT THE 13:35:02 BASIC ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS, THE 13:35:07 INJUSTICE THAT STILL EXISTS WITHIN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 13:35:11 SYSTEM, THE DISPARITY IN TERMS OF HOW PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN 13:35:17 THIS COUNTRY CONTINUES. IT HAS GOTTEN BETTER, AND WE 13:35:21 SHOULD NEVER DENY THAT IT'S GOTTEN BETTER, BUT WE SHOULDN'T 13:35:25 FORGET THAT BETTER IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, THAT UNTIL WE'VE GOT 13:35:30 ABSOLUTE EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY IN TERMS OF PEOPLE BEING 13:35:33 TREATED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR COLOR OR THEIR GENDER THAT THAT 13:35:37 IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON AND THE 13:35:42 JOSHUA GENERATION HAS A SIGNIFICANT TASK IN MAKING THAT 13:35:45 HAPPEN. THIRD THING, WE'VE GOT TO 13:35:51 RECOGNIZE THAT WE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, BUT WE'VE STILL 13:35:55 GOT A LOT OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH. 13:35:59 WE'VE GOT 46 -- 46 MILLION PEOPLE UNINSURED IN THIS COUNTRY 13:36:06 DESPITE SPENDING MORE MONEY ON HEALTH CARE THAN ANY NATION ON 13:36:08 EARTH. MAKES NO SENSE. 13:36:13 AS CONSEQUENCE WE'VE GOT WHAT'S KNOWN AS A HEALTH CARE DISPARITY 13:36:19 IN THIS NATION BECAUSE MANY OF THE UNINSURED ARE 13:36:23 AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR LATINO. LIFE EXPECTANCY IS LOWER, ALMOST 13:36:27 EVERY DISEASE IS HIGHER WITHIN MINORITY COMMUNITIES. 13:36:32 THE HEALTH CARE GAME. BLACKS ARE LESS LIKELY IN THEIR 13:36:35 SCHOOLS TO HAVE ADEQUATE FUNDING. 13:36:39 WE HAVE LESS QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:43 WE HAVE FEWER TEXTBOOKS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:47 WE GOT IN SOME SCHOOLS RATS OUTNUMBERING COMPUTERS. 13:36:52 THAT'S CALLED THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:36:55 YOU GOT A HEALTH CARE GAP. YOU'VE GOT AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:37:02 YOU'VE GOT KATRINA STILL UNDONE. WENT DUNN TO NEW ORLEANS THREE 13:37:11 WEEKS AGO. STILL LOOKS BOMBED OUT. 13:37:13 STILL NOT REBUILT. WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED, THE FEDERAL 13:37:19 GOVERNMENT HAS A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF GRANTS TO HELP REBUILD. 13:37:23 THEY WAIVED ANY REQUIREMENT THAT MANHATTAN WOULD HAVE TO PAY 10% 13:37:27 OF THE COST OF REBUILDING. WHEN HURRICANE FLORIDA -- 13:37:32 HURRICANE ANDREWS HAPPENED IN FLORIDA, 10% REQUIREMENT, THEY 13:37:36 WAIVED IT BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT SOME DISASTERS 13:37:39 ARE SO DEVASTATING THAT WE CAN'T EXPECT A COMMUNITY TO REBUILD. 13:37:46 NEW ORLEANS, THE LARGEST NATURAL CATASTROPHE IN OUR HISTORY, THE 13:37:52 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS, WHERE IS YOUR 10%? 13:37:58 THERE'S AN EMPATHY GAP. THERE'S A GAP IN TERMS OF 13:38:04 SYMPATHIZING FOR THOSE FOLKS IN NEW ORLEANS AS BAD AS 13:38:07 SYMPATHIZING WITH FOLKS ELSEWHERE. 13:38:09 IT'S NOT A GAP THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FELT BECAUSE WE SAW HOW 13:38:13 THEY RESPONDED. BUT SOMEHOW OUR GOVERNMENT 13:38:17 DIDN'T RESPOND WITH THAT SAME SENSE OF COMPASSION AND THAT 13:38:21 SAME SENSE OF KINDNESS. AND HERE'S THE WORST PART, THE 13:38:27 TRAGEDY IN NEW ORLEANS HAPPENED WELL BEFORE THE HURRICANE 13:38:32 STRUCK. BECAUSE MANY OF THOSE 13:38:34 COMMUNITIES THERE WERE SO MANY YOUNG MEN IN PRISON, SO MANY 13:38:38 KIDS DROPPING OUT, SO LITTLE HOPE, A HOPE GAP, A HOPE GAP 13:38:42 THAT STILL PERVADES TOO MANY COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE 13:38:45 COUNTRY AND RIGHT HERE IN ALABAMA. 13:38:49 SO THE QUESTION IS THEN, WHAT ARE WE THE JOSHUA GENERATION 13:38:53 DOING TO CLOSE THOSE GAPS? ARE WE DOING EVERY SINGLE THING 13:38:58 THAT WE CAN DO IN CONGRESS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT EARLY 13:39:02 EDUCATION IS ADEQUATELY FUNDED AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE 13:39:06 RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE SO IF SOMEBODY WORKS EACH AND EVERY 13:39:10 DAY THEY CAN HAVE SOME DIGNITY AND RESPECT? 13:39:12 ARE WE ENSURING IF SOMEBODY LOSES A JOB THAT THEY'RE GETTING 13:39:16 RETRAINED AND THAT IF THEY'VE LOST THEIR HEALTH CARE AND THEIR 13:39:21 PENSION THAT SOMEBODY IS THERE TO HELP THEM GET BACK ON THEIR 13:39:24 FEET? ARE WE MAKING SURE WE'RE GIVING 13:39:25 A SECOND CHANCE TO THOSE WHO HAVE STRAYED AND GONE TO PRISON 13:39:29 BUT WANT TO START A NEW LIFE? GOVERNMENT ALONE CAN'T SOLVE ALL 13:39:37 THOSE PROBLEMS, BUT GOVERNMENT CAN HELP, AND IT'S THE 13:39:41 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE 13:39:48 A GOVERNMENT AS RESPONSIBLE AS THE NEED EXISTS ALL ACROSS 13:39:52 AMERICA BUT THAT BRINGS ME TO ONE OTHER POINT THOUGH, JOSHUA 13:39:56 GENERATION, AND THAT IS THIS, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ENOUGH 13:40:01 JUST TO ASK WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR US, IT'S IMPORTANT 13:40:05 FOR US TO ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OURSELVES. 13:40:10 YET ONE OF THE SIGNATURE ASPECTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS 13:40:15 THE DEGREE OF DISCIPLINE AND FORTITUDE THAT WAS INSTILLED IN 13:40:21 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED. IMAGINE YOUNG PEOPLE, 16, 17, 13:40:29 20, 21 BACK STRAIGHT, EYES CLEAR, SUIT AND TIE SITTING DOWN 13:40:37 AT A LUNCH COUNTER KNOW BE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SPILL MILK 13:40:40 ON YOU BUT YOU HAVE THE DISCIPLINE TO UNDERSTAND THAT 13:40:43 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RETALIATE BECAUSE IN SHOWING THE WORLD HOW 13:40:48 DISCIPLINED WE WERE AS A PEOPLE, WE WERE ABLE TO WIN OVER THE 13:40:53 CONSCIENCE OF A NATION. I CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN THAT WE 13:41:00 HAVE INSTILLED THAT SAME SENSE OF MORAL CLARITY AND PURPOSE IN 13:41:05 THIS GENERATION. BISHOP, SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE 13:41:08 WE'VE LOST IT A LITTLE BIT. YOU KNOW, I'M FIGHTING TO MAKE 13:41:14 SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE ADEQUATELY FUNDED. 13:41:16 ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE HAVE INEQUITIES IN HOW SCHOOLS ARE 13:41:20 FUNDED BECAUSE IT'S RELIED ON PROPERTY TAXES AND PEOPLE WHO 13:41:23 HAPPEN TO BE BORN IN WEALTHY DISTRICTS, SOMEHOW THEY GET 13:41:28 BETTER SCHOOLS THAN FOLKS WHO ARE BORN IN POOR DISTRICTS AND 13:41:32 THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. 13:41:34 THAT'S NOT THE AMERICAN WAY, BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, EVEN AS I FIGHT 13:41:38 ON BEHALF OF MORE EDUCATION FUNDING, MORE EQUITY, I HAVE TO 13:41:42 ALSO SAY THAT IF PARENTS DON'T TURN OFF THE TELEVISION SET WHEN 13:41:47 THE CHILD COMES HOME FROM SCHOOL, AND MAKE SURE THEY SIT 13:41:52 DOWN AND DO THEIR HOMEWORK AND GO TALK TO THE TEACHERS AND FIND 13:41:56 OUT HOW THEY'RE DOING AND IF WE DON'T START INSTILLING A SENSE 13:41:59 IN OUR YOUNG CHILDREN, THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED 13:42:04 ABOUT IN EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, I DON'T KNOW WHO 13:42:07 CAUGHT THEM THAT READING AND WRITING AND CONJUGATING YOUR 13:42:11 VERBS WAS ACTING WHITE, WE'VE GOT TO GET OVER THAT MENTALITY. 13:42:14 WE'VE GOT TO DO FOR OURSEOURSEL. THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE MOSES 13:42:19 GENERATION TEACHES US, NOT SAYING TO OURSELVES WE CAN'T DO 13:42:23 SOMETHING BUT TELLING OURSELVES THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE. 13:42:27 WE CAN DO THAT. WE'VE GOT POWER IN OUR HANDS. 13:42:36 FOLKS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR GOVERNMENT. 13:42:39 I UNDERSTAND THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE COMPLAINING ABOUT. 13:42:45 I'M IN WASHINGTON. I SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 13:42:48 I SEE THOSE POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES HAVE SNUCK BACK 13:42:52 IN THERE. THAT THEY'RE WRITING THE ENERGY 13:42:55 BILLS AND THE DRUG LAWS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT. 13:42:58 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, I ALSO KNOW THAT IF COUSIN POOKIE WOULD 13:43:05 VOTE, IF UNCLE JETHRO WOULD GET OFF THE COUCH AND STOP WATCHING 13:43:12 "SPORTSCENTER" AND GO REGISTER SOME FOLKS AND GO TO THE POLLS, 13:43:15 WE MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF POLITICS. 13:43:18 THAT'S WHAT THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US. 13:43:23 KICK OFF YOUR BEDROOM SLIPPERS, PUT ON YOUR MARCHING SHOES, GO 13:43:28 DO SOME POLITICS, CHANGE THIS COUNTRY. 13:43:30 THAT'S WHAT THEY TEACH US. WE'VE GOT TOO MANY CHILDREN IN 13:43:39 POVERTY IN THIS COUNTRY, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ASHAMED. 13:43:43 BUT DON'T TELL ME EARTH DOESN'T HAVE A LITTLE TO DO WITH THE 13:43:46 FACT THAT WE GOT TOO MANY DADDIES NOT ACTING LIKE DADDIES. 13:43:53 I THINK THAT -- THINK THAT FATHERHOOD ENDS AT CONCEPTION, I 13:43:59 KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE MY FATHER WASN'T AROUND 13:44:02 WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND I STRUGGLED. 13:44:07 THOSE OF YOU WHO READ MY BOOK KNOW. 13:44:09 I WENT THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT TIMES. 13:44:11 I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A STRONG MALE FIGURE 13:44:15 IN THE HOUSE, WHICH IS WHY THE HARDEST THING ABOUT ME BEING IN 13:44:19 POLITICS SOMETIMES IS NOT BEING HOME AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE AND I'M 13:44:22 JUST BLESSED THAT I'VE GOT SUCH A WONDERFUL WIFE AT HOME TO HOLD 13:44:26 THINGS TOGETHER, BUT DON'T TELL ME THAT WE CAN'T DO BETTER BY 13:44:36 OUR CHILDREN, THAT WE CAN'T TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE 13:44:40 WE'RE INSTILLING IN THEM THE VALUES AND THE IDEAS THAT THE 13:44:43 MOSES GENERATION TAUGHT US ABOUT SACRIFICE AND DIGNITY AND 13:44:47 HONESTY AND HARD WORK AND DISCIPLINE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. 13:44:51 THAT COMES FROM US. WE'VE GOT TO TRANSMIT THAT TO 13:44:56 THE NEXT GENERATION AND I GUESS THE POINT THAT I'M MAKE 13:44:58 SOMETHING THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WASN'T JUST A FIGHT 13:45:03 AGAINST THE OPPRESSOR, IT WAS ALSO A FIGHT AGAINST THE 13:45:06 OPPRESSOR IN EACH OF US. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S EASY TO 13:45:12 JUST POINT AT SOMEBODY ELSE AND SAY, IT'S THERE THEIR FAULT BUT 13:45:17 OPPRESSION HAS A WAY OF CREEPING INTO YOU, REVEREND. 13:45:19 IT HAS A WAY OF STUNTING YOURSELF. 13:45:23 YOU START TELLING YOURSELF, BISHOP, I CAN'T DO SOMETHING. 13:45:27 I CAN'T READ, I CAN'T -- I CAN'T GO TO COLLEGE. 13:45:30 I CAN'T START A BUSINESS. I CAN'T RUN FOR CONGRESS. 13:45:33 I CAN'T RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, PEOPLE START TELLING YOU CAN'T 13:45:38 DO SOMETHING, AFTER A WHILE, YOU TART BELIEVING IT. 13:45:44 AND PART OF WHAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS ABOUT WAS 13:45:47 RECOGNIZING THAT WE HAVE TO TRANSFORM OURSELVES IN ORDER TO 13:45:50 TRANSFORM THE WORLD. MAHATMA GANDHI, THE GREAT HERO 13:45:57 OF DR. KING AND THE PERSON WHO HELPED CREATE THE NONVIOLENT 13:46:03 MOVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD, HE ONCE SAID THAT "YOU CAN'T CHANGE 13:46:07 THE WORLD IF YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED. 13:46:10 IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, THE CHANGE HAS TO HAPPEN WITH 13:46:13 YOU FIRST." AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE 13:46:19 GREATEST AND MOST HONORABLE OF GENERATIONS HAS TAUGHT US. 13:46:26 BUT THE FINAL THING THAT I THINK THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US 13:46:29 IS TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE DO WHAT WE DO BECAUSE GOD IS 13:46:35 WITH US. YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES WAS FIRST 13:46:41 CALLED TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT OF THE PROMISED LAND, HE SAID, "I DON'T 13:46:45 THINK I CAN DO IT, LORD. I DON'T SPEAK LIKE REVEREND 13:46:49 LOWERY. I DON'T -- I DON'T FEEL BRAVE 13:46:53 AND COURAGEOUS" AND THE LORD SAID "I WILL BE WITH YOU. 13:46:59 THROW DOWN THAT ROD, PICK IT BACK UP. 13:47:03 I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO." 13:47:06 AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:47:14 JOSHUA SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M SCARED. 13:47:17 I'M NOT SURE THAT I AM UP TO THE CHALLENGE, AND THE LORD SAID TO 13:47:25 HIM, EVERY PLACE THAT THE SOUL OF YOUR FOOT WILL TREAD UPON, I 13:47:31 HAVE GIVEN YOU. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I 13:47:36 AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:47:43 THAT'S A PRAYER FOR A JOURNEY, A PRAYER THAT KEPT A WOMAN IN HER 13:47:47 SEAT WHEN THE BUS DRIVER TOLD HER TO GET UP, A PRAYER THAT LED 13:47:50 NINE CHILDREN THROUGH THE DOORS OF A LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL, A 13:47:53 PRAYER THAT CARRIED OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER A BRIDGE RIGHT 13:47:57 HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE WHEN 13:48:02 YOU SEE ROW AND ROW OF STATE TROOPER FACING YOU, YOU SEE THE 13:48:07 HORSES AND THE TEAR GAS, HOW ELSE CAN YOU WALK TOWARDS THEM 13:48:10 UNARMED AND UNAFRAID? WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU AND 13:48:13 START BEATING YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR NEIGHBORS HOW ELSE CAN YOU 13:48:17 SIMPLY KNEEL DOWN, BOW YOUR HEAD AND ASK THE LORD FOR SALVATION 13:48:20 WHEN YOU SEE HEADS GASHED OPEN AND EYES BURNING AND LITTLE 13:48:24 CHILDREN LYING HURT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WHEN YOU'RE JOHN 13:48:28 LEWIS AND YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE ON 13:48:31 SUNDAY HOW DO YOU WAKE UP ON MONDAY AND KEEP ON MARCHING? 13:48:34 BE STRONG, AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. 13:48:41 WE'VE COME A LONG WAY IN THIS JOURNEY, BUT WE STILL HAVE A 13:48:46 LONG WAY TO TRAVEL. WE TRAVEL BECAUSE GOD WAS WITH 13:48:52 US. IT'S NOT HOW FAR WE'VE COME THIS 13:48:55 FAR ON OUR JOURNEY. THAT BRIDGE OUTSIDE WAS CROSSED 13:48:58 BY BLACKS AND WHITES, NORTHERNERS AND SOUTHERNERS, 13:49:01 TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN, SHOPKEEPERS AND JANITORS, A 13:49:04 BELOVED COMMUNITY OF GOD'S CHILDREN WILLING TO TAKE THOSE 13:49:07 STEPS TOGETHER. BUT IT WAS LEFT TO THE JOSHUAS 13:49:12 TO FINISH THE JOURNEY MOSES HAD BEGUN AND TODAY WE'RE CALLED TO 13:49:15 BE THE JOSHUAS OF OUR TIME, TO BE THE GENERATION THAT FINDS OUR 13:49:19 WAY ACROSS THIS RIVER, THERE WILL BE DAYS WHEN THE WATER 13:49:23 SEEMS WIDE AND THE JOURNEY TOO FAR, BUT IN THOSE MOMENTS WE 13:49:27 MUST REMEMBER THAT THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, THERE HAS BEEN A 13:49:31 RUNNING THREAD OF IDEALS THAT HAVE GUIDED OUR TRAVELS AND 13:49:35 PUSHED US FORWARD EVEN WHEN THEY'RE JUST BEYOND OUR REACH, 13:49:40 LIBERTY IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY, EQUALITY IN THE FACE OF BITTER 13:49:44 INJUSTICE, OPPORTUNITY WHERE THERE WAS NONE AND HOPE OVER THE 13:49:46 MOST CRUSHING DE SPARE, THOSE IDEALS, THOSE VALUES, THEY 13:49:50 BECKON US STILL, AND WHEN WE HAVE OUR DOUBTS AND OUR FEARS, 13:49:53 JUST LIKE JOSHUA DID, WHEN THE ROAD LOOKS TOO LONG AND IT SEEMS 13:49:57 LIKE WE MAY LOSE OUR WAY, REMEMBER WHAT THESE PEOPLE DID 13:50:01 ON THAT BRIDGE, KEEPING YOUR H 13:50:07 HEART, THE PRAYER OF THAT JOURNEY, THE PRAYER THAT GOD 13:50:09 GAVE TO JOSHUA, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF 13:50:16 INJUSTICE, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF PREJUDICE 13:50:21 AND HATRED, IN THE FACE OF JOBLESSNESS AND HELPLESSNESS AND 13:50:28 HOPELESSNESS, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:50:30 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED TODAY IN THE FACE 13:50:34 OF OUR DOUBTS AND FEARS, IN THE FACE OF SKEPTICISM, IN THE FACE 13:50:39 OF CYNICISM, IN THE FACE OF A MIGHTY RIVER, BE STRONG AND HAVE 13:50:44 COURAGE AND LET US CROSS OVER THAT PROMISED LAND TOGETHER. 13:50:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY. GOD BLESS YOU. END SENATOR BARACK OBAMA

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[VOTE 2008 / OBAMA AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA] [SELMA, ALA USA] FTG OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-ILL) AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA 12:28:32 Obama standing 12:29:01 Obama sits back down 12:41:55 Obama receiving a standing ovation 12:42:08 Obama smiling and laughing 12:46:07 Obama standing behind preacher 12:46:21 Obama clapping and sitting back down 12:52:41 Obama clapping 13:16:19 I want to start by saying I want to thank him for his support . 13:17:14 Somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage . 13:17:39 To all the distinguished guests and clergy. I'm not sure I'm going to thank the . because he stole the show . nervous about following so many great clergy men .. 13:18:31 Thanks you very much for letting me speak . after I announced I was running for president of the united states . drawing from script 13:19:24 I acknowledge there is a certain amount of presumptuousness with this . his son is now preacher at my church . I got a letter giving me encouragement telling me how proud he was and reminded me to stay true to my ideals . tell them to look at the story of Joshua . 13:20:37 So I just want to talk a little bit about . we are in the presence today of a lot of Moses' . people who battle on behalf of all of America . endured taunts and torments . gave full measure of their devotion . who said that some are atop and some are at the bottom and that's how it will always be . 13:22:53 They wondered through a desert and knowing that god was with them . and it's because they marched that the next generation has not been as bloodied . it's because they marched that I stand here today . 13:23:54 Because not only is my career the result of the men and women we honor here today, my very existence might not have happened . you don't understand, my grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya . 13:25:24 Yet something happened here in Selma Alabama . 13:26:25 Worried folks in the white house, we're fighting communism . the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift . this young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets . 13:27:46 Don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma Alabama . I'm here because ya'll sacrificed or me . I stand on your shoulders . 13:32:36 Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence, you have to fill that . second thing is the principals of equality is not a one sided thing . 13:33:43 They have basically spent all their time worrying about affirmative action . reminds us we still have a lot work to do . we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough . that is something that we have got to continue to work on 13:35:40 Third thing, we fought for civil rights, but we still have a lot of economic rights to work for . we've got what's know as a health care disparity . life expectancy is lower in the minorities . we have fewer teachers and text books in the schools . health care gap and achievement gap 13:37:00 New Orleans still looks bombed out . when 9-11 happened, they waived any requirement . because they understood . federal government says where's your 10%. There's an empathy gap . 13:38:02 Not a gap the American people felt . the government was the problem . because many of those communities . hope gap . 13:38:40 The question is, what are we the Joshua generation doing to close the gap .. Are we ensuring . and giving a second chance 13:39:29 Government can help . make sure the government is responsive . it's enough to ask with the government can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves . 13:41:24 I tell you what, even as I fight for more education funding . if parents don't turn off the television set . it we don't instill a sense in our young children . we've got to get over that mentality . 13:42:14 Telling ourselves we can achieve . we can do that. We can achieve. 13:42:37 I'm in Washington, I see what's going on . I also know that cousin poky wasn't voting . kick off your marching slippers, put on your marching shoes . 13:43:44 They think that fatherhood ends at conception . I went through some difficult times . 13:44:53 It wasn't just a fight against the oppressor, it was a fight against the oppressor in all of us . it has a way of stunting yourself . part of what the civil rights movement was realizing you have to change more then just ourselves . 13:46:04 That is something that the greatest and the most honorable of generations has taught us . we do what we do because God is with us . 13:46:56 The same thing happened with the Joshua generation . not sure I can do this . be strong and have courage . that's a prayer for a journey . 13:48:31 We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to go . that bridge was crossed . and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our generation .. Liberty in the face of injustice . 13:49:56 Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey . be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice . hopelessness 13:50:29 In the face of a mighty river, be strong and have courage and lets cross that bridge together, thank you 13:50:55 Obama embracing various members of the clergy on stage 13:51:37 Obama sits back down 13:56:42 Obama head down in prayer and song SEGMENT [1] 2007/03/04 ************************************************ SENATOR BARACK OBAMA SPEAKING AT THE BROWN CHAPEL IN SELMA, ALABAMA 13:16:08 SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: I MUST BEGIN BECAUSE AT THE 13:16:16 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS MORNING, I WAS SAVING HIM FOR LAST AND THE 13:16:20 LIST OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WAS SO LONG, I LEFT HIM OUT AFTER THAT 13:16:25 INTRODUCTION, SO I'M GOING TO START BY SAYING HOW MUCH I 13:16:29 APPRECIATE THE FRIENDSHIP AND THE SUPPORT AND THE OUTSTANDING 13:16:33 WORK THAT HE DOES EACH AND EVERY DAY, NOT JUST IN CAPITOL HILL 13:16:39 BUT ALSO BACK HERE IN THE DISTRICT, PLEASE GIVE A WARM 13:16:42 ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN ARTUR DAVIS. 13:16:45 [ APPLAUSE ] IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE, 13:16:58 REVEREND JACKSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TO THE FAMILY OF BROWN 13:17:04 AM & E AND BISHOP KIRKLAND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL 13:17:09 MESSAGE AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE OF THE 13:17:16 GREAT HEROS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND AMERICAN LIFE, SOMEBODY WHO 13:17:29 CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF DECENCY AND COURAGE, SOMEBODY WHO I HAVE 13:17:35 ADMIRED ALL MY LIFE AND WERE IT NOT FOR HIM I'M NOT SURE I WOULD 13:17:41 BE HERE TODAY, CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, I'M THANKFUL TO HIM. 13:17:44 [ APPLAUSE ] TO ALL THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS 13:17:51 AND CLERGY, I'M NOT SURE I'M GOING TO THANK REVEREND LOWERY 13:17:56 BECAUSE HE STOLE THE SHOW. [ LAUGHTER ] 13:18:06 I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER I KNOW WE'VE GOT C.T. VIVIAN AND ALL 13:18:11 THIS. WHEN YOU HAVE TO SPEAK IN FRONT 13:18:12 OF SOMEBODY WHO MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID WAS THE GREATEST 13:18:15 PREACHER HE EVER HEARD THEN YOU GOT SOME PROBLEMS, AND I'M A 13:18:19 LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT FOLLOWING SO MANY GREAT PREACHERS. 13:18:28 BUT I AM HOPING THAT THE SPIRIT MOVES ME. 13:18:31 TO ALL MY CONGRESSIONAL COLLEAGUES AND OTHER ELECTED 13:18:34 OFFICIALS WERE HERE, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO HAVE GIVEN ME SUCH A 13:18:38 WARM WELCOME, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TO 13:18:42 YOU HERE TODAY. YOU KNOW, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, 13:18:50 AFTER I HAD ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF 13:18:55 THE UNITED STATES, I STOOD IN FRONT OF THE OLD STATE CAPITOL 13:18:59 IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DELIVERED HIS 13:19:05 SPEECH DECLARING DASH DRAWING FROM SCRIPTURE THAT A HOUSE 13:19:09 DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF COULD NOT STAND, AND I STOOD AND I 13:19:13 ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY, AND THERE WERE A 13:19:17 LOT OF COMMENTATORS AS THEY ARE PRONE TO DO WHO QUESTIONED THE 13:19:24 AUDACITY OF A YOUNG MAN LIKE MYSELF, HADN'T BEEN IN 13:19:29 WASHINGTON TOO LONG AND I ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE'S A 13:19:34 CERTAIN PRESUMPTUOUSNESS ABOUT THIS, BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM A 13:19:40 FRIEND OF SOME OF YOURS NAMED REVEREND OTIS MALSH JR. IN 13:19:49 CLEVELAND, ILLINOIS, AND HIS SON, OTIS MOSS III IS NOW 13:19:54 PASTORING AT MY CHURCH, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST AND I 13:19:59 MUST SEND GREETINGS FROM OUR SENIOR PASTOR DR. INJURE MYA A. 13:20:05 WRIGHT JR., BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM REVEREND OTIS MOSS JR. 13:20:10 GIVING ME ENCOURAGEMENT AND SAYING HOW PROUD HE WAS THAT I 13:20:15 HAD ANNOUNCED, AND ENCOURAGING ME TO STAY TRUE TO MY IDEALS AND 13:20:23 MY VALUES AND NOT TO BE FEARFUL AND HE SAID IF THERE'S SOME 13:20:29 FOLKS OUT THERE WHO ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT YOU 13:20:34 SHOULD RUN, JUST TELL THEM TO LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOSHUA. 13:20:43 BECAUSE YOU'RE PART OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:20:47 AND SO I JUST WANT TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT MOSES AND AARON AND 13:20:53 JOSHUA. BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE 13:21:00 TODAY OF A LOT OF MOSESS. WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE TODAY OF 13:21:08 GIANTS WHOSE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON, PEOPLE WHO BATTLED ON 13:21:17 BEHALF, NOT JUST OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, BUT ON BEHALF 13:21:21 OF ALL OF AMERICA, THAT BATTLED FOR AMERICA'S SOUL, THAT SHED 13:21:31 BLOOD, THAT ENDURED TAUNTS AND TORMENT AND IN SOME CASES GAVE 13:21:37 THE FULL MEASURE OF THEIR DEVOTION. 13:21:41 LIKE MOSES, THEY CHALLENGED FARROW, THE PRINCES AND POWERS, 13:21:51 WHO SAID THAT SOME ARE ATOP AND OTHERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM, AND 13:21:57 THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE. 13:22:00 THERE WERE PEOPLE LIKE ANNA COOPER AND MARIE FOSTER AND 13:22:05 JIMMY LEE JACKSON AND MAURICE OLETT, C.T. VIVIAN, REVEREND 13:22:13 LOWERY, JOHN LEWIS, WHO SAID WE CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, 13:22:19 THAT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE FOR US TOO. 13:22:23 THAT GOD HAS MADE US IN HIS IMAGE, AND THAT WE REJECT THE 13:22:28 NOTION THAT WE WILL FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES BE CONFINED TO A 13:22:33 STATION OF INFERIORITY, THAT WE CAN ASPIRE TO THE HIGHEST OF 13:22:39 HEIGHTS THAT OUR TALENTS CAN BE EXPRESSED TO THEIR FULLEST. 13:22:45 AND SO BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY ENDURED, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY 13:22:50 MARCHED, THEY LED A PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:22:56 THEY TOOK THEM ACROSS A SEA THAT FOLKS THOUGHT COULD NOT BE 13:23:02 PARTED. THEY WANDERED THROUGH A DESERT, 13:23:06 BUT ALWAYS KNOWING THAT GOD WAS WITH THEM AND THAT IF THEY 13:23:11 MAINTAINED THAT TRUST IN GOD, THAT THEY WOULD BE ALL RIGHT. 13:23:17 AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT THE NEXT GENERATION HASN'T 13:23:25 BEEN BLOODED SO MUCH. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT 13:23:28 WE ELECTED COUNCILMEN AND CONGRESSMEN. 13:23:32 IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT WE HAVE ARTUR DAVIS AND KEITH 13:23:37 ELLISON. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I 13:23:39 GOT THE KIND OF EDUCATION I GOT, THAT I GOT A LAW DEGREE AND A 13:23:45 SEAT IN THE ILLINOIS SENATE AND ULTIMATELY IN THE UNITED STATES 13:23:48 SENATE IS BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU HERE 13:23:50 TODAY. AND I WAS MENTIONING AT THE 13:24:02 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS IMPORTANT, MY DEBT IS EVEN GREATER THAN 13:24:05 THAT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS MY CAREER THE RESULT OF THE WORK OF 13:24:13 THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WE HONOR HERE TODAY, MY VERY EXISTENCE 13:24:21 MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SOME OF THE 13:24:24 FOLKS HERE TODAY. I MENTIONED AT THE UNITY 13:24:28 BREAKFAST THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING, WELL, YOU 13:24:31 KNOW, YOUR FATHER WAS FROM AFRICA, YOUR MOTHER, SHE'S A 13:24:35 WHITE WOMAN FROM KANSAS, I'M NOT SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME 13:24:39 EXPERIENCE, AND I TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT. 13:24:41 YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU SEE, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A 13:24:45 COOK TO THE BRITISH IN KENYA, GREW UP IN A SMALL VILLAGE, AND 13:24:52 ALL HIS LIFE THAT'S ALL HE WAS WAS A COOK AND A HOUSEBOY AND 13:24:56 THAT'S WHAT THEY CALLED HIM EVEN WHEN HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD THEY 13:25:00 CALLED HIM A HOUSEBOY. WOULDN'T CALL HIM BY HIS LAST 13:25:05 NAME. CALLED HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME. 13:25:08 SOUND FAMILIAR? AND HE HAD TO CARRY A PASSBOOK 13:25:14 AROUND, BECAUSE AFRICANS IN THEIR OWN LAND IN THEIR OWN 13:25:17 COUNTRY AT THAT TIME BECAUSE IT WAS A BRITISH COLONY COULD NOT 13:25:22 MOVE ABOUT FREELY. THEY COULD ONLY GO WHERE THEY 13:25:25 WERE TOLD TO G THEY COULD ONLY WORK WHERE THEY WERE TOLD TO 13:25:31 WORK, AND YET SOMETHING HAPPENED BACK HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA, 13:25:37 SOMETHING HAPPENED IN BIRMINGHAM THAT SENT OUT WHAT BOBBY KENNEDY 13:25:41 CALLED RIPPLES OF HOPE ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 13:25:44 SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN A BUNCH OF WOMEN DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO 13:25:49 WALK INSTEAD OF RIDE THE BUS AFTER A LONG DAY OF DOING 13:25:53 SOMEBODY ELSE'S LAUNDRY AND LOOKING AFTER SOMEBODY ELSE'S 13:25:55 CHILDREN WHEN MEN WHO HAD Ph.D.s WERE WORKING AS PORTERS DECIDED 13:26:01 THAT'S ENOUGH AND WE'RE GOING TO STAND UP DESPITE THE RISKS FOR 13:26:04 OUR DIGNITY AND I RESPECT THAT CENTER SHOUT ACROSS OCEANS SO 13:26:10 THAT MY GRANDFATHER BEGAN TO IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR 13:26:14 HIS SON AND HIS SON WHO GREW UP HERDING GOATS IN A SMALL VILLAGE 13:26:19 IN AFRICA COULD SUDDENLY SET HIS SIGHTS A LITTLE HIGHER AND 13:26:24 SUDDENLY BELIEVE THAT MAYBE A BLACK MAN IN THIS WORLD HAD A 13:26:29 CHANCE, AND WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA AND BIRMINGHAM 13:26:33 ALSO STIRRED THE CONSCIENCE OF A NATION AND IT WORRIED FOLKS IN 13:26:38 THE WHITE HOUSE WHO SAID WE'RE BATTLING COMMUNISM, HOW ARE WE 13:26:41 GOING TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD IF 13:26:44 RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JOHN, WE'RE NOT OBSERVING THE 13:26:49 IDEALS THAT ARE SET FORTH IN OUR CONSTITUTION? 13:26:52 WE MIGHT BE ACCUSED OF BEING HYPOCRITES SO THE KENNEDYS 13:26:56 DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO DO AN AIRLIFT. 13:26:59 WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT TO AFRICA AND WE'RE GOING TO START 13:27:02 BRINGING YOUNG AFRICANS OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND BRING THEM 13:27:05 SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN WHAT A WONDERFUL 13:27:09 COUNTRY AMERICA IS AND THIS YOUNG MAN NAMED BARACK OBAMA GOT 13:27:13 ONE OF THOSE TICKETS AND CAME OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND HE MET 13:27:20 THIS WOMAN, WHOSE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER HAD 13:27:25 OWNED SLAVES, BUT SHE HAD A DIFFERENT IDEA. 13:27:29 THERE'S SOME GOOD CRAZINESS GOING ON BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AT 13:27:32 EACH OTHER AND THEY DECIDED, WE KNOW THAT IN THE WORLD AS IT HAS 13:27:36 BEEN IT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET TOGETHER AND HAVE 13:27:39 A CHILD, BUT SOMETHING IS STIRRING ACROSS THE COUNTRY 13:27:42 BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA, BECAUSE SOME 13:27:46 FOLKS ARE WILLING TO MARCH ACROSS THE BRIDGE. 13:27:49 AND SO THEY GOT TOGETHER AND BARACK OBAMA JR. WAS BORN. 13:27:55 SO DON'T TELL ME I DON'T HAVE A CLAIM ON SELMA, ALABAMA. 13:28:00 DON'T TELL ME I'M NOT COMING HOME WHEN I COME TO SELMA, 13:28:03 ALABAMA. I'M HERE BECAUSE SOMEBODY 13:28:06 MARCHED FOR OUR FREEDOM. I'M HERE BECAUSE Y'ALL 13:28:11 SACRIFICED FOR ME. I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF 13:28:19 THIS. I THANK THE MOSES GENERATION. 13:28:27 BUT WE GOT TO REMEMBER NOW THAT JOSHUA STILL HAD A JOB TO DO. 13:28:36 AS GREAT AS MOSES WAS, DESPITE ALL THAT HE DID, LEADING A 13:28:44 PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE, HE DIDN'T CROSS OVER THE RIVER TO SEE THE 13:28:51 PROMISED LAND. GOD TOLD HIM YOUR JOB IS DONE, 13:28:55 YOU'LL SEE IT. YOU'LL BE AT THE MOUNTAINTOP, 13:28:58 AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT I'VE PROMISED, WHAT I PROMISED TO 13:29:03 ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB AND I PROMISED TO YOU, YOU CAN SEE 13:29:07 THAT I WILL FULFILL THAT PROMISE. 13:29:10 BUT YOU WON'T GO THERE. WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE IT TO THE 13:29:14 JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS. 13:29:18 THERE'S STILL SOME BATTLES HA NEED TO BE FOUGHT, SOME RIVERS 13:29:21 THAT NEED TO BE CROSSED. LIKE MOSES, THE TASK WAS PASSED 13:29:27 ON TO THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AS DESERVING, MIGHT NOT 13:29:33 HAVE BEEN AS COURAGEOUS FIND THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF THE RISKS 13:29:37 THAT THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT 13:29:41 GRANDPARENTS HAD TAKEN, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY STILL DON'T 13:29:43 HAVE A BURDEN THAT THEY HAVE TO SHOULDER, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE 13:29:47 SOME RESPONSIBILITIES THE PREVIOUS GENERATION, THE MOSES 13:29:51 GENERATION POINTED THE WAY. THEY TOOK US 90% OF THE WAY 13:29:55 THERE, BUT WE STILL GOT THAT 10% IN ORDER TO CROSS OVER TO THE 13:30:00 OTHER SIDE. AND SO THE QUESTION, I GUESS, 13:30:05 THAT I HAVE TODAY IS WHAT'S CALLED OF US IN THIS JOSHUA 13:30:11 GENERATION? WHAT DO WE DO IN ORDER TO 13:30:13 FULFILL THAT LEGACY TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS AND THE DEBT 13:30:17 THAT WE OWE TO THOSE WHO ALLOWED US TO BE HERE TODAY? 13:30:22 NOW, I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVER FULLY REPAY THAT DEBT. 13:30:26 I THINK THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE LOOKING BACK, BUT THERE 13:30:33 ARE AT LEAST A FEW SUGGESTIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE IN TERMS OF 13:30:37 HOW WE MIGHT FULFILL THAT ENORMOUS LEGACY. 13:30:43 THE FIRST IS TO RECOGNIZE OUR HISTORY. 13:30:48 JOHN LEWIS TALKED ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY, BUT I WORRY 13:30:52 SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WE COME DOWN TO 13:30:57 MARCH EVERY YEAR ONCE A YEAR. WE OCCASIONALLY CELEBRATE THE 13:31:05 VARIOUS EVENTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 13:31:08 WE CELEBRATE DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY, BUT IT STRIKES ME THAT 13:31:12 UNDERSTANDING OUR HISTORY AND KNOWING WHAT IT MEANS IS AN 13:31:15 EVERYDAY ACTIVITY. YOU NOTICE WHEN MOSES SPOKE TO 13:31:23 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, TELLING THEM THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO BE 13:31:30 GOING WITH THEM, HE LAID OUT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND 13:31:34 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE SAID, BISHOP, WAS HE SAID, "KNOW YOUR 13:31:39 PAST. KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM. 13:31:41 KNOW HOW YOU WERE LED OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:31:45 KNOW HOW PHARAOH REFUSED TO LET YOU GO AND THAT GOD CAME DOWN 13:31:49 AND VISITED ALL MANNER OF PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE UNTIL FINALLY A 13:31:54 PEOPLE WERE FREED." MOSES TOLD THE JOSHUA 13:32:00 GENERATION, DON'T FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM, AND I WORRY 13:32:04 SOMETIMES THAT THE JOSHUA GENERATION IN ITS SUCCESS 13:32:08 FORGETS WHERE IT CAME FROM. THINKS IT DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE 13:32:12 AS MANY SACRIFICES, THINKS THAT THE VERY HEIGHT OF AMBITION IS 13:32:18 TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU CAN, TO DRIVE THE BIGGEST CAR 13:32:23 AND HAVE THE BIGGEST HOUSE AND WEAR A ROLEX WATCH AND GET YOUR 13:32:28 OWN PRIVATE JET, GET SOME OF THAT OPRAH MONEY, AND I THINK 13:32:37 THAT'S A GOOD THING. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH 13:32:40 MAKING MONEY BUT IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THEN YOU KNOW THAT 13:32:44 THERE'S A CERTAIN POVERTY OF AMBITION INVOLVED IN SIMPLY 13:32:50 STRIVING JUST FOR MONEY, MATERIALISM ALONE WILL NOT 13:32:58 FULFILL THE POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 13:33:01 YOU HAVE TO FILL THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 13:33:02 YOU HAVE TO FILL IT WITH THE GOLAN RULE. 13:33:05 YOU GOT TO FILL IT WITH THINKING ABOUT OTHERS, AND IF WE KNOW OUR 13:33:10 HISTORY, THEN WE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE HIGHEST MARK OF 13:33:16 SERVICE. SECOND THING THAT THE JOSHUA 13:33:19 GENERATION NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE PRINCIPLES OF 13:33:23 EQUALITY THAT WERE SET FORTH AND WERE BATTLED FOR HAVE TO BE 13:33:28 FOUGHT EACH AND EVERY DAY, IT IS NOT A ONE-TIME THING. 13:33:34 I WAS REMARKING AT THE UNITY BREAKFAST ON THE FACT THAT THE 13:33:40 SINGLE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONCERN THAT THIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 13:33:46 UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD WITH RESPECT TO 13:33:50 DISCRIMINATION HAS TO DO WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 13:33:53 THAT THEY HAVE BASICALLY SPENT ALL THEIR TIME WORRYING ABOUT 13:33:58 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE GIVEN A 13:34:01 LITTLE BREAK TO YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANICS 13:34:06 TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE TOO. 13:34:08 I HAD A SCHOOL IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THAT IT SET UP A 13:34:11 PROGRAM FOR Ph.D.s IN MATH AND SCIENCE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, 13:34:16 AND THE REASON THEY HAD SET IT UP IS BECAUSE WE ONLY HAD LESS 13:34:21 THAN 1% OF THE Ph.D.s, DOCTOR, IN SCIENCE AND MATH GO TO 13:34:27 AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE COMPETING IN A 13:34:30 GLOBAL ECONOMY -- WHEN WE'RE NOT JUST COMPETING AGAINST FOLKS IN 13:34:36 NORTH CAROLINA OR FLORIDA BUT IN CHINA AND INDIA AND WE NEED MATH 13:34:40 AND SCIENCE MAJORS, THIS UNIVERSITY THOUGHT THAT THIS 13:34:43 MIGHT BE A NICE THING TO DO, AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WROTE 13:34:46 THEM A LETTER SAYING WE ARE GOING TO THREATEN TO SUE YOU FOR 13:34:50 REVERSE DISCRIMINATION UNLESS YOU CEASE THIS PROGRAM, AND IT 13:34:56 REMINDS US THAT WE STILL GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO, AND THAT THE 13:35:02 BASIC ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS, THE 13:35:07 INJUSTICE THAT STILL EXISTS WITHIN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 13:35:11 SYSTEM, THE DISPARITY IN TERMS OF HOW PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN 13:35:17 THIS COUNTRY CONTINUES. IT HAS GOTTEN BETTER, AND WE 13:35:21 SHOULD NEVER DENY THAT IT'S GOTTEN BETTER, BUT WE SHOULDN'T 13:35:25 FORGET THAT BETTER IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, THAT UNTIL WE'VE GOT 13:35:30 ABSOLUTE EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY IN TERMS OF PEOPLE BEING 13:35:33 TREATED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR COLOR OR THEIR GENDER THAT THAT 13:35:37 IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON AND THE 13:35:42 JOSHUA GENERATION HAS A SIGNIFICANT TASK IN MAKING THAT 13:35:45 HAPPEN. THIRD THING, WE'VE GOT TO 13:35:51 RECOGNIZE THAT WE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, BUT WE'VE STILL 13:35:55 GOT A LOT OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH. 13:35:59 WE'VE GOT 46 -- 46 MILLION PEOPLE UNINSURED IN THIS COUNTRY 13:36:06 DESPITE SPENDING MORE MONEY ON HEALTH CARE THAN ANY NATION ON 13:36:08 EARTH. MAKES NO SENSE. 13:36:13 AS CONSEQUENCE WE'VE GOT WHAT'S KNOWN AS A HEALTH CARE DISPARITY 13:36:19 IN THIS NATION BECAUSE MANY OF THE UNINSURED ARE 13:36:23 AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR LATINO. LIFE EXPECTANCY IS LOWER, ALMOST 13:36:27 EVERY DISEASE IS HIGHER WITHIN MINORITY COMMUNITIES. 13:36:32 THE HEALTH CARE GAME. BLACKS ARE LESS LIKELY IN THEIR 13:36:35 SCHOOLS TO HAVE ADEQUATE FUNDING. 13:36:39 WE HAVE LESS QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:43 WE HAVE FEWER TEXTBOOKS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:47 WE GOT IN SOME SCHOOLS RATS OUTNUMBERING COMPUTERS. 13:36:52 THAT'S CALLED THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:36:55 YOU GOT A HEALTH CARE GAP. YOU'VE GOT AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:37:02 YOU'VE GOT KATRINA STILL UNDONE. WENT DUNN TO NEW ORLEANS THREE 13:37:11 WEEKS AGO. STILL LOOKS BOMBED OUT. 13:37:13 STILL NOT REBUILT. WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED, THE FEDERAL 13:37:19 GOVERNMENT HAS A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF GRANTS TO HELP REBUILD. 13:37:23 THEY WAIVED ANY REQUIREMENT THAT MANHATTAN WOULD HAVE TO PAY 10% 13:37:27 OF THE COST OF REBUILDING. WHEN HURRICANE FLORIDA -- 13:37:32 HURRICANE ANDREWS HAPPENED IN FLORIDA, 10% REQUIREMENT, THEY 13:37:36 WAIVED IT BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT SOME DISASTERS 13:37:39 ARE SO DEVASTATING THAT WE CAN'T EXPECT A COMMUNITY TO REBUILD. 13:37:46 NEW ORLEANS, THE LARGEST NATURAL CATASTROPHE IN OUR HISTORY, THE 13:37:52 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS, WHERE IS YOUR 10%? 13:37:58 THERE'S AN EMPATHY GAP. THERE'S A GAP IN TERMS OF 13:38:04 SYMPATHIZING FOR THOSE FOLKS IN NEW ORLEANS AS BAD AS 13:38:07 SYMPATHIZING WITH FOLKS ELSEWHERE. 13:38:09 IT'S NOT A GAP THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FELT BECAUSE WE SAW HOW 13:38:13 THEY RESPONDED. BUT SOMEHOW OUR GOVERNMENT 13:38:17 DIDN'T RESPOND WITH THAT SAME SENSE OF COMPASSION AND THAT 13:38:21 SAME SENSE OF KINDNESS. AND HERE'S THE WORST PART, THE 13:38:27 TRAGEDY IN NEW ORLEANS HAPPENED WELL BEFORE THE HURRICANE 13:38:32 STRUCK. BECAUSE MANY OF THOSE 13:38:34 COMMUNITIES THERE WERE SO MANY YOUNG MEN IN PRISON, SO MANY 13:38:38 KIDS DROPPING OUT, SO LITTLE HOPE, A HOPE GAP, A HOPE GAP 13:38:42 THAT STILL PERVADES TOO MANY COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE 13:38:45 COUNTRY AND RIGHT HERE IN ALABAMA. 13:38:49 SO THE QUESTION IS THEN, WHAT ARE WE THE JOSHUA GENERATION 13:38:53 DOING TO CLOSE THOSE GAPS? ARE WE DOING EVERY SINGLE THING 13:38:58 THAT WE CAN DO IN CONGRESS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT EARLY 13:39:02 EDUCATION IS ADEQUATELY FUNDED AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE 13:39:06 RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE SO IF SOMEBODY WORKS EACH AND EVERY 13:39:10 DAY THEY CAN HAVE SOME DIGNITY AND RESPECT? 13:39:12 ARE WE ENSURING IF SOMEBODY LOSES A JOB THAT THEY'RE GETTING 13:39:16 RETRAINED AND THAT IF THEY'VE LOST THEIR HEALTH CARE AND THEIR 13:39:21 PENSION THAT SOMEBODY IS THERE TO HELP THEM GET BACK ON THEIR 13:39:24 FEET? ARE WE MAKING SURE WE'RE GIVING 13:39:25 A SECOND CHANCE TO THOSE WHO HAVE STRAYED AND GONE TO PRISON 13:39:29 BUT WANT TO START A NEW LIFE? GOVERNMENT ALONE CAN'T SOLVE ALL 13:39:37 THOSE PROBLEMS, BUT GOVERNMENT CAN HELP, AND IT'S THE 13:39:41 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE 13:39:48 A GOVERNMENT AS RESPONSIBLE AS THE NEED EXISTS ALL ACROSS 13:39:52 AMERICA BUT THAT BRINGS ME TO ONE OTHER POINT THOUGH, JOSHUA 13:39:56 GENERATION, AND THAT IS THIS, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ENOUGH 13:40:01 JUST TO ASK WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR US, IT'S IMPORTANT 13:40:05 FOR US TO ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OURSELVES. 13:40:10 YET ONE OF THE SIGNATURE ASPECTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS 13:40:15 THE DEGREE OF DISCIPLINE AND FORTITUDE THAT WAS INSTILLED IN 13:40:21 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED. IMAGINE YOUNG PEOPLE, 16, 17, 13:40:29 20, 21 BACK STRAIGHT, EYES CLEAR, SUIT AND TIE SITTING DOWN 13:40:37 AT A LUNCH COUNTER KNOW BE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SPILL MILK 13:40:40 ON YOU BUT YOU HAVE THE DISCIPLINE TO UNDERSTAND THAT 13:40:43 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RETALIATE BECAUSE IN SHOWING THE WORLD HOW 13:40:48 DISCIPLINED WE WERE AS A PEOPLE, WE WERE ABLE TO WIN OVER THE 13:40:53 CONSCIENCE OF A NATION. I CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN THAT WE 13:41:00 HAVE INSTILLED THAT SAME SENSE OF MORAL CLARITY AND PURPOSE IN 13:41:05 THIS GENERATION. BISHOP, SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE 13:41:08 WE'VE LOST IT A LITTLE BIT. YOU KNOW, I'M FIGHTING TO MAKE 13:41:14 SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE ADEQUATELY FUNDED. 13:41:16 ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE HAVE INEQUITIES IN HOW SCHOOLS ARE 13:41:20 FUNDED BECAUSE IT'S RELIED ON PROPERTY TAXES AND PEOPLE WHO 13:41:23 HAPPEN TO BE BORN IN WEALTHY DISTRICTS, SOMEHOW THEY GET 13:41:28 BETTER SCHOOLS THAN FOLKS WHO ARE BORN IN POOR DISTRICTS AND 13:41:32 THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. 13:41:34 THAT'S NOT THE AMERICAN WAY, BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, EVEN AS I FIGHT 13:41:38 ON BEHALF OF MORE EDUCATION FUNDING, MORE EQUITY, I HAVE TO 13:41:42 ALSO SAY THAT IF PARENTS DON'T TURN OFF THE TELEVISION SET WHEN 13:41:47 THE CHILD COMES HOME FROM SCHOOL, AND MAKE SURE THEY SIT 13:41:52 DOWN AND DO THEIR HOMEWORK AND GO TALK TO THE TEACHERS AND FIND 13:41:56 OUT HOW THEY'RE DOING AND IF WE DON'T START INSTILLING A SENSE 13:41:59 IN OUR YOUNG CHILDREN, THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED 13:42:04 ABOUT IN EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, I DON'T KNOW WHO 13:42:07 CAUGHT THEM THAT READING AND WRITING AND CONJUGATING YOUR 13:42:11 VERBS WAS ACTING WHITE, WE'VE GOT TO GET OVER THAT MENTALITY. 13:42:14 WE'VE GOT TO DO FOR OURSEOURSEL. THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE MOSES 13:42:19 GENERATION TEACHES US, NOT SAYING TO OURSELVES WE CAN'T DO 13:42:23 SOMETHING BUT TELLING OURSELVES THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE. 13:42:27 WE CAN DO THAT. WE'VE GOT POWER IN OUR HANDS. 13:42:36 FOLKS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR GOVERNMENT. 13:42:39 I UNDERSTAND THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE COMPLAINING ABOUT. 13:42:45 I'M IN WASHINGTON. I SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 13:42:48 I SEE THOSE POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES HAVE SNUCK BACK 13:42:52 IN THERE. THAT THEY'RE WRITING THE ENERGY 13:42:55 BILLS AND THE DRUG LAWS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT. 13:42:58 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, I ALSO KNOW THAT IF COUSIN POOKIE WOULD 13:43:05 VOTE, IF UNCLE JETHRO WOULD GET OFF THE COUCH AND STOP WATCHING 13:43:12 "SPORTSCENTER" AND GO REGISTER SOME FOLKS AND GO TO THE POLLS, 13:43:15 WE MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF POLITICS. 13:43:18 THAT'S WHAT THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US. 13:43:23 KICK OFF YOUR BEDROOM SLIPPERS, PUT ON YOUR MARCHING SHOES, GO 13:43:28 DO SOME POLITICS, CHANGE THIS COUNTRY. 13:43:30 THAT'S WHAT THEY TEACH US. WE'VE GOT TOO MANY CHILDREN IN 13:43:39 POVERTY IN THIS COUNTRY, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ASHAMED. 13:43:43 BUT DON'T TELL ME EARTH DOESN'T HAVE A LITTLE TO DO WITH THE 13:43:46 FACT THAT WE GOT TOO MANY DADDIES NOT ACTING LIKE DADDIES. 13:43:53 I THINK THAT -- THINK THAT FATHERHOOD ENDS AT CONCEPTION, I 13:43:59 KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE MY FATHER WASN'T AROUND 13:44:02 WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND I STRUGGLED. 13:44:07 THOSE OF YOU WHO READ MY BOOK KNOW. 13:44:09 I WENT THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT TIMES. 13:44:11 I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A STRONG MALE FIGURE 13:44:15 IN THE HOUSE, WHICH IS WHY THE HARDEST THING ABOUT ME BEING IN 13:44:19 POLITICS SOMETIMES IS NOT BEING HOME AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE AND I'M 13:44:22 JUST BLESSED THAT I'VE GOT SUCH A WONDERFUL WIFE AT HOME TO HOLD 13:44:26 THINGS TOGETHER, BUT DON'T TELL ME THAT WE CAN'T DO BETTER BY 13:44:36 OUR CHILDREN, THAT WE CAN'T TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE 13:44:40 WE'RE INSTILLING IN THEM THE VALUES AND THE IDEAS THAT THE 13:44:43 MOSES GENERATION TAUGHT US ABOUT SACRIFICE AND DIGNITY AND 13:44:47 HONESTY AND HARD WORK AND DISCIPLINE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. 13:44:51 THAT COMES FROM US. WE'VE GOT TO TRANSMIT THAT TO 13:44:56 THE NEXT GENERATION AND I GUESS THE POINT THAT I'M MAKE 13:44:58 SOMETHING THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WASN'T JUST A FIGHT 13:45:03 AGAINST THE OPPRESSOR, IT WAS ALSO A FIGHT AGAINST THE 13:45:06 OPPRESSOR IN EACH OF US. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S EASY TO 13:45:12 JUST POINT AT SOMEBODY ELSE AND SAY, IT'S THERE THEIR FAULT BUT 13:45:17 OPPRESSION HAS A WAY OF CREEPING INTO YOU, REVEREND. 13:45:19 IT HAS A WAY OF STUNTING YOURSELF. 13:45:23 YOU START TELLING YOURSELF, BISHOP, I CAN'T DO SOMETHING. 13:45:27 I CAN'T READ, I CAN'T -- I CAN'T GO TO COLLEGE. 13:45:30 I CAN'T START A BUSINESS. I CAN'T RUN FOR CONGRESS. 13:45:33 I CAN'T RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, PEOPLE START TELLING YOU CAN'T 13:45:38 DO SOMETHING, AFTER A WHILE, YOU TART BELIEVING IT. 13:45:44 AND PART OF WHAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS ABOUT WAS 13:45:47 RECOGNIZING THAT WE HAVE TO TRANSFORM OURSELVES IN ORDER TO 13:45:50 TRANSFORM THE WORLD. MAHATMA GANDHI, THE GREAT HERO 13:45:57 OF DR. KING AND THE PERSON WHO HELPED CREATE THE NONVIOLENT 13:46:03 MOVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD, HE ONCE SAID THAT "YOU CAN'T CHANGE 13:46:07 THE WORLD IF YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED. 13:46:10 IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, THE CHANGE HAS TO HAPPEN WITH 13:46:13 YOU FIRST." AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE 13:46:19 GREATEST AND MOST HONORABLE OF GENERATIONS HAS TAUGHT US. 13:46:26 BUT THE FINAL THING THAT I THINK THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US 13:46:29 IS TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE DO WHAT WE DO BECAUSE GOD IS 13:46:35 WITH US. YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES WAS FIRST 13:46:41 CALLED TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT OF THE PROMISED LAND, HE SAID, "I DON'T 13:46:45 THINK I CAN DO IT, LORD. I DON'T SPEAK LIKE REVEREND 13:46:49 LOWERY. I DON'T -- I DON'T FEEL BRAVE 13:46:53 AND COURAGEOUS" AND THE LORD SAID "I WILL BE WITH YOU. 13:46:59 THROW DOWN THAT ROD, PICK IT BACK UP. 13:47:03 I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO." 13:47:06 AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:47:14 JOSHUA SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M SCARED. 13:47:17 I'M NOT SURE THAT I AM UP TO THE CHALLENGE, AND THE LORD SAID TO 13:47:25 HIM, EVERY PLACE THAT THE SOUL OF YOUR FOOT WILL TREAD UPON, I 13:47:31 HAVE GIVEN YOU. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I 13:47:36 AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:47:43 THAT'S A PRAYER FOR A JOURNEY, A PRAYER THAT KEPT A WOMAN IN HER 13:47:47 SEAT WHEN THE BUS DRIVER TOLD HER TO GET UP, A PRAYER THAT LED 13:47:50 NINE CHILDREN THROUGH THE DOORS OF A LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL, A 13:47:53 PRAYER THAT CARRIED OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER A BRIDGE RIGHT 13:47:57 HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE WHEN 13:48:02 YOU SEE ROW AND ROW OF STATE TROOPER FACING YOU, YOU SEE THE 13:48:07 HORSES AND THE TEAR GAS, HOW ELSE CAN YOU WALK TOWARDS THEM 13:48:10 UNARMED AND UNAFRAID? WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU AND 13:48:13 START BEATING YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR NEIGHBORS HOW ELSE CAN YOU 13:48:17 SIMPLY KNEEL DOWN, BOW YOUR HEAD AND ASK THE LORD FOR SALVATION 13:48:20 WHEN YOU SEE HEADS GASHED OPEN AND EYES BURNING AND LITTLE 13:48:24 CHILDREN LYING HURT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WHEN YOU'RE JOHN 13:48:28 LEWIS AND YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE ON 13:48:31 SUNDAY HOW DO YOU WAKE UP ON MONDAY AND KEEP ON MARCHING? 13:48:34 BE STRONG, AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. 13:48:41 WE'VE COME A LONG WAY IN THIS JOURNEY, BUT WE STILL HAVE A 13:48:46 LONG WAY TO TRAVEL. WE TRAVEL BECAUSE GOD WAS WITH 13:48:52 US. IT'S NOT HOW FAR WE'VE COME THIS 13:48:55 FAR ON OUR JOURNEY. THAT BRIDGE OUTSIDE WAS CROSSED 13:48:58 BY BLACKS AND WHITES, NORTHERNERS AND SOUTHERNERS, 13:49:01 TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN, SHOPKEEPERS AND JANITORS, A 13:49:04 BELOVED COMMUNITY OF GOD'S CHILDREN WILLING TO TAKE THOSE 13:49:07 STEPS TOGETHER. BUT IT WAS LEFT TO THE JOSHUAS 13:49:12 TO FINISH THE JOURNEY MOSES HAD BEGUN AND TODAY WE'RE CALLED TO 13:49:15 BE THE JOSHUAS OF OUR TIME, TO BE THE GENERATION THAT FINDS OUR 13:49:19 WAY ACROSS THIS RIVER, THERE WILL BE DAYS WHEN THE WATER 13:49:23 SEEMS WIDE AND THE JOURNEY TOO FAR, BUT IN THOSE MOMENTS WE 13:49:27 MUST REMEMBER THAT THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, THERE HAS BEEN A 13:49:31 RUNNING THREAD OF IDEALS THAT HAVE GUIDED OUR TRAVELS AND 13:49:35 PUSHED US FORWARD EVEN WHEN THEY'RE JUST BEYOND OUR REACH, 13:49:40 LIBERTY IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY, EQUALITY IN THE FACE OF BITTER 13:49:44 INJUSTICE, OPPORTUNITY WHERE THERE WAS NONE AND HOPE OVER THE 13:49:46 MOST CRUSHING DE SPARE, THOSE IDEALS, THOSE VALUES, THEY 13:49:50 BECKON US STILL, AND WHEN WE HAVE OUR DOUBTS AND OUR FEARS, 13:49:53 JUST LIKE JOSHUA DID, WHEN THE ROAD LOOKS TOO LONG AND IT SEEMS 13:49:57 LIKE WE MAY LOSE OUR WAY, REMEMBER WHAT THESE PEOPLE DID 13:50:01 ON THAT BRIDGE, KEEPING YOUR H 13:50:07 HEART, THE PRAYER OF THAT JOURNEY, THE PRAYER THAT GOD 13:50:09 GAVE TO JOSHUA, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF 13:50:16 INJUSTICE, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF PREJUDICE 13:50:21 AND HATRED, IN THE FACE OF JOBLESSNESS AND HELPLESSNESS AND 13:50:28 HOPELESSNESS, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:50:30 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED TODAY IN THE FACE 13:50:34 OF OUR DOUBTS AND FEARS, IN THE FACE OF SKEPTICISM, IN THE FACE 13:50:39 OF CYNICISM, IN THE FACE OF A MIGHTY RIVER, BE STRONG AND HAVE 13:50:44 COURAGE AND LET US CROSS OVER THAT PROMISED LAND TOGETHER. 13:50:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY. GOD BLESS YOU. END SENATOR BARACK OBAMA

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[VOTE 2008 / OBAMA AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA] [SELMA, ALA USA] FTG OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-ILL) AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA 12:28:32 Obama standing 12:29:01 Obama sits back down 12:41:55 Obama receiving a standing ovation 12:42:08 Obama smiling and laughing 12:46:07 Obama standing behind preacher 12:46:21 Obama clapping and sitting back down 12:52:41 Obama clapping 13:16:19 I want to start by saying I want to thank him for his support . 13:17:14 Somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage . 13:17:39 To all the distinguished guests and clergy. I'm not sure I'm going to thank the . because he stole the show . nervous about following so many great clergy men .. 13:18:31 Thanks you very much for letting me speak . after I announced I was running for president of the united states . drawing from script 13:19:24 I acknowledge there is a certain amount of presumptuousness with this . his son is now preacher at my church . I got a letter giving me encouragement telling me how proud he was and reminded me to stay true to my ideals . tell them to look at the story of Joshua . 13:20:37 So I just want to talk a little bit about . we are in the presence today of a lot of Moses' . people who battle on behalf of all of America . endured taunts and torments . gave full measure of their devotion . who said that some are atop and some are at the bottom and that's how it will always be . 13:22:53 They wondered through a desert and knowing that god was with them . and it's because they marched that the next generation has not been as bloodied . it's because they marched that I stand here today . 13:23:54 Because not only is my career the result of the men and women we honor here today, my very existence might not have happened . you don't understand, my grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya . 13:25:24 Yet something happened here in Selma Alabama . 13:26:25 Worried folks in the white house, we're fighting communism . the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift . this young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets . 13:27:46 Don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma Alabama . I'm here because ya'll sacrificed or me . I stand on your shoulders . 13:32:36 Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence, you have to fill that . second thing is the principals of equality is not a one sided thing . 13:33:43 They have basically spent all their time worrying about affirmative action . reminds us we still have a lot work to do . we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough . that is something that we have got to continue to work on 13:35:40 Third thing, we fought for civil rights, but we still have a lot of economic rights to work for . we've got what's know as a health care disparity . life expectancy is lower in the minorities . we have fewer teachers and text books in the schools . health care gap and achievement gap 13:37:00 New Orleans still looks bombed out . when 9-11 happened, they waived any requirement . because they understood . federal government says where's your 10%. There's an empathy gap . 13:38:02 Not a gap the American people felt . the government was the problem . because many of those communities . hope gap . 13:38:40 The question is, what are we the Joshua generation doing to close the gap .. Are we ensuring . and giving a second chance 13:39:29 Government can help . make sure the government is responsive . it's enough to ask with the government can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves . 13:41:24 I tell you what, even as I fight for more education funding . if parents don't turn off the television set . it we don't instill a sense in our young children . we've got to get over that mentality . 13:42:14 Telling ourselves we can achieve . we can do that. We can achieve. 13:42:37 I'm in Washington, I see what's going on . I also know that cousin poky wasn't voting . kick off your marching slippers, put on your marching shoes . 13:43:44 They think that fatherhood ends at conception . I went through some difficult times . 13:44:53 It wasn't just a fight against the oppressor, it was a fight against the oppressor in all of us . it has a way of stunting yourself . part of what the civil rights movement was realizing you have to change more then just ourselves . 13:46:04 That is something that the greatest and the most honorable of generations has taught us . we do what we do because God is with us . 13:46:56 The same thing happened with the Joshua generation . not sure I can do this . be strong and have courage . that's a prayer for a journey . 13:48:31 We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to go . that bridge was crossed . and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our generation .. Liberty in the face of injustice . 13:49:56 Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey . be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice . hopelessness 13:50:29 In the face of a mighty river, be strong and have courage and lets cross that bridge together, thank you 13:50:55 Obama embracing various members of the clergy on stage 13:51:37 Obama sits back down 13:56:42 Obama head down in prayer and song SEGMENT [1] 2007/03/04 ************************************************ SENATOR BARACK OBAMA SPEAKING AT THE BROWN CHAPEL IN SELMA, ALABAMA 13:16:08 SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: I MUST BEGIN BECAUSE AT THE 13:16:16 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS MORNING, I WAS SAVING HIM FOR LAST AND THE 13:16:20 LIST OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WAS SO LONG, I LEFT HIM OUT AFTER THAT 13:16:25 INTRODUCTION, SO I'M GOING TO START BY SAYING HOW MUCH I 13:16:29 APPRECIATE THE FRIENDSHIP AND THE SUPPORT AND THE OUTSTANDING 13:16:33 WORK THAT HE DOES EACH AND EVERY DAY, NOT JUST IN CAPITOL HILL 13:16:39 BUT ALSO BACK HERE IN THE DISTRICT, PLEASE GIVE A WARM 13:16:42 ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN ARTUR DAVIS. 13:16:45 [ APPLAUSE ] IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE, 13:16:58 REVEREND JACKSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TO THE FAMILY OF BROWN 13:17:04 AM & E AND BISHOP KIRKLAND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL 13:17:09 MESSAGE AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE OF THE 13:17:16 GREAT HEROS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND AMERICAN LIFE, SOMEBODY WHO 13:17:29 CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF DECENCY AND COURAGE, SOMEBODY WHO I HAVE 13:17:35 ADMIRED ALL MY LIFE AND WERE IT NOT FOR HIM I'M NOT SURE I WOULD 13:17:41 BE HERE TODAY, CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, I'M THANKFUL TO HIM. 13:17:44 [ APPLAUSE ] TO ALL THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS 13:17:51 AND CLERGY, I'M NOT SURE I'M GOING TO THANK REVEREND LOWERY 13:17:56 BECAUSE HE STOLE THE SHOW. [ LAUGHTER ] 13:18:06 I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER I KNOW WE'VE GOT C.T. VIVIAN AND ALL 13:18:11 THIS. WHEN YOU HAVE TO SPEAK IN FRONT 13:18:12 OF SOMEBODY WHO MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID WAS THE GREATEST 13:18:15 PREACHER HE EVER HEARD THEN YOU GOT SOME PROBLEMS, AND I'M A 13:18:19 LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT FOLLOWING SO MANY GREAT PREACHERS. 13:18:28 BUT I AM HOPING THAT THE SPIRIT MOVES ME. 13:18:31 TO ALL MY CONGRESSIONAL COLLEAGUES AND OTHER ELECTED 13:18:34 OFFICIALS WERE HERE, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO HAVE GIVEN ME SUCH A 13:18:38 WARM WELCOME, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TO 13:18:42 YOU HERE TODAY. YOU KNOW, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, 13:18:50 AFTER I HAD ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF 13:18:55 THE UNITED STATES, I STOOD IN FRONT OF THE OLD STATE CAPITOL 13:18:59 IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DELIVERED HIS 13:19:05 SPEECH DECLARING DASH DRAWING FROM SCRIPTURE THAT A HOUSE 13:19:09 DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF COULD NOT STAND, AND I STOOD AND I 13:19:13 ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY, AND THERE WERE A 13:19:17 LOT OF COMMENTATORS AS THEY ARE PRONE TO DO WHO QUESTIONED THE 13:19:24 AUDACITY OF A YOUNG MAN LIKE MYSELF, HADN'T BEEN IN 13:19:29 WASHINGTON TOO LONG AND I ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE'S A 13:19:34 CERTAIN PRESUMPTUOUSNESS ABOUT THIS, BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM A 13:19:40 FRIEND OF SOME OF YOURS NAMED REVEREND OTIS MALSH JR. IN 13:19:49 CLEVELAND, ILLINOIS, AND HIS SON, OTIS MOSS III IS NOW 13:19:54 PASTORING AT MY CHURCH, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST AND I 13:19:59 MUST SEND GREETINGS FROM OUR SENIOR PASTOR DR. INJURE MYA A. 13:20:05 WRIGHT JR., BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM REVEREND OTIS MOSS JR. 13:20:10 GIVING ME ENCOURAGEMENT AND SAYING HOW PROUD HE WAS THAT I 13:20:15 HAD ANNOUNCED, AND ENCOURAGING ME TO STAY TRUE TO MY IDEALS AND 13:20:23 MY VALUES AND NOT TO BE FEARFUL AND HE SAID IF THERE'S SOME 13:20:29 FOLKS OUT THERE WHO ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT YOU 13:20:34 SHOULD RUN, JUST TELL THEM TO LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOSHUA. 13:20:43 BECAUSE YOU'RE PART OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:20:47 AND SO I JUST WANT TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT MOSES AND AARON AND 13:20:53 JOSHUA. BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE 13:21:00 TODAY OF A LOT OF MOSESS. WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE TODAY OF 13:21:08 GIANTS WHOSE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON, PEOPLE WHO BATTLED ON 13:21:17 BEHALF, NOT JUST OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, BUT ON BEHALF 13:21:21 OF ALL OF AMERICA, THAT BATTLED FOR AMERICA'S SOUL, THAT SHED 13:21:31 BLOOD, THAT ENDURED TAUNTS AND TORMENT AND IN SOME CASES GAVE 13:21:37 THE FULL MEASURE OF THEIR DEVOTION. 13:21:41 LIKE MOSES, THEY CHALLENGED FARROW, THE PRINCES AND POWERS, 13:21:51 WHO SAID THAT SOME ARE ATOP AND OTHERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM, AND 13:21:57 THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE. 13:22:00 THERE WERE PEOPLE LIKE ANNA COOPER AND MARIE FOSTER AND 13:22:05 JIMMY LEE JACKSON AND MAURICE OLETT, C.T. VIVIAN, REVEREND 13:22:13 LOWERY, JOHN LEWIS, WHO SAID WE CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, 13:22:19 THAT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE FOR US TOO. 13:22:23 THAT GOD HAS MADE US IN HIS IMAGE, AND THAT WE REJECT THE 13:22:28 NOTION THAT WE WILL FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES BE CONFINED TO A 13:22:33 STATION OF INFERIORITY, THAT WE CAN ASPIRE TO THE HIGHEST OF 13:22:39 HEIGHTS THAT OUR TALENTS CAN BE EXPRESSED TO THEIR FULLEST. 13:22:45 AND SO BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY ENDURED, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY 13:22:50 MARCHED, THEY LED A PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:22:56 THEY TOOK THEM ACROSS A SEA THAT FOLKS THOUGHT COULD NOT BE 13:23:02 PARTED. THEY WANDERED THROUGH A DESERT, 13:23:06 BUT ALWAYS KNOWING THAT GOD WAS WITH THEM AND THAT IF THEY 13:23:11 MAINTAINED THAT TRUST IN GOD, THAT THEY WOULD BE ALL RIGHT. 13:23:17 AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT THE NEXT GENERATION HASN'T 13:23:25 BEEN BLOODED SO MUCH. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT 13:23:28 WE ELECTED COUNCILMEN AND CONGRESSMEN. 13:23:32 IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT WE HAVE ARTUR DAVIS AND KEITH 13:23:37 ELLISON. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I 13:23:39 GOT THE KIND OF EDUCATION I GOT, THAT I GOT A LAW DEGREE AND A 13:23:45 SEAT IN THE ILLINOIS SENATE AND ULTIMATELY IN THE UNITED STATES 13:23:48 SENATE IS BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU HERE 13:23:50 TODAY. AND I WAS MENTIONING AT THE 13:24:02 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS IMPORTANT, MY DEBT IS EVEN GREATER THAN 13:24:05 THAT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS MY CAREER THE RESULT OF THE WORK OF 13:24:13 THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WE HONOR HERE TODAY, MY VERY EXISTENCE 13:24:21 MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SOME OF THE 13:24:24 FOLKS HERE TODAY. I MENTIONED AT THE UNITY 13:24:28 BREAKFAST THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING, WELL, YOU 13:24:31 KNOW, YOUR FATHER WAS FROM AFRICA, YOUR MOTHER, SHE'S A 13:24:35 WHITE WOMAN FROM KANSAS, I'M NOT SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME 13:24:39 EXPERIENCE, AND I TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT. 13:24:41 YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU SEE, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A 13:24:45 COOK TO THE BRITISH IN KENYA, GREW UP IN A SMALL VILLAGE, AND 13:24:52 ALL HIS LIFE THAT'S ALL HE WAS WAS A COOK AND A HOUSEBOY AND 13:24:56 THAT'S WHAT THEY CALLED HIM EVEN WHEN HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD THEY 13:25:00 CALLED HIM A HOUSEBOY. WOULDN'T CALL HIM BY HIS LAST 13:25:05 NAME. CALLED HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME. 13:25:08 SOUND FAMILIAR? AND HE HAD TO CARRY A PASSBOOK 13:25:14 AROUND, BECAUSE AFRICANS IN THEIR OWN LAND IN THEIR OWN 13:25:17 COUNTRY AT THAT TIME BECAUSE IT WAS A BRITISH COLONY COULD NOT 13:25:22 MOVE ABOUT FREELY. THEY COULD ONLY GO WHERE THEY 13:25:25 WERE TOLD TO G THEY COULD ONLY WORK WHERE THEY WERE TOLD TO 13:25:31 WORK, AND YET SOMETHING HAPPENED BACK HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA, 13:25:37 SOMETHING HAPPENED IN BIRMINGHAM THAT SENT OUT WHAT BOBBY KENNEDY 13:25:41 CALLED RIPPLES OF HOPE ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 13:25:44 SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN A BUNCH OF WOMEN DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO 13:25:49 WALK INSTEAD OF RIDE THE BUS AFTER A LONG DAY OF DOING 13:25:53 SOMEBODY ELSE'S LAUNDRY AND LOOKING AFTER SOMEBODY ELSE'S 13:25:55 CHILDREN WHEN MEN WHO HAD Ph.D.s WERE WORKING AS PORTERS DECIDED 13:26:01 THAT'S ENOUGH AND WE'RE GOING TO STAND UP DESPITE THE RISKS FOR 13:26:04 OUR DIGNITY AND I RESPECT THAT CENTER SHOUT ACROSS OCEANS SO 13:26:10 THAT MY GRANDFATHER BEGAN TO IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR 13:26:14 HIS SON AND HIS SON WHO GREW UP HERDING GOATS IN A SMALL VILLAGE 13:26:19 IN AFRICA COULD SUDDENLY SET HIS SIGHTS A LITTLE HIGHER AND 13:26:24 SUDDENLY BELIEVE THAT MAYBE A BLACK MAN IN THIS WORLD HAD A 13:26:29 CHANCE, AND WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA AND BIRMINGHAM 13:26:33 ALSO STIRRED THE CONSCIENCE OF A NATION AND IT WORRIED FOLKS IN 13:26:38 THE WHITE HOUSE WHO SAID WE'RE BATTLING COMMUNISM, HOW ARE WE 13:26:41 GOING TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD IF 13:26:44 RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JOHN, WE'RE NOT OBSERVING THE 13:26:49 IDEALS THAT ARE SET FORTH IN OUR CONSTITUTION? 13:26:52 WE MIGHT BE ACCUSED OF BEING HYPOCRITES SO THE KENNEDYS 13:26:56 DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO DO AN AIRLIFT. 13:26:59 WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT TO AFRICA AND WE'RE GOING TO START 13:27:02 BRINGING YOUNG AFRICANS OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND BRING THEM 13:27:05 SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN WHAT A WONDERFUL 13:27:09 COUNTRY AMERICA IS AND THIS YOUNG MAN NAMED BARACK OBAMA GOT 13:27:13 ONE OF THOSE TICKETS AND CAME OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND HE MET 13:27:20 THIS WOMAN, WHOSE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER HAD 13:27:25 OWNED SLAVES, BUT SHE HAD A DIFFERENT IDEA. 13:27:29 THERE'S SOME GOOD CRAZINESS GOING ON BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AT 13:27:32 EACH OTHER AND THEY DECIDED, WE KNOW THAT IN THE WORLD AS IT HAS 13:27:36 BEEN IT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET TOGETHER AND HAVE 13:27:39 A CHILD, BUT SOMETHING IS STIRRING ACROSS THE COUNTRY 13:27:42 BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA, BECAUSE SOME 13:27:46 FOLKS ARE WILLING TO MARCH ACROSS THE BRIDGE. 13:27:49 AND SO THEY GOT TOGETHER AND BARACK OBAMA JR. WAS BORN. 13:27:55 SO DON'T TELL ME I DON'T HAVE A CLAIM ON SELMA, ALABAMA. 13:28:00 DON'T TELL ME I'M NOT COMING HOME WHEN I COME TO SELMA, 13:28:03 ALABAMA. I'M HERE BECAUSE SOMEBODY 13:28:06 MARCHED FOR OUR FREEDOM. I'M HERE BECAUSE Y'ALL 13:28:11 SACRIFICED FOR ME. I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF 13:28:19 THIS. I THANK THE MOSES GENERATION. 13:28:27 BUT WE GOT TO REMEMBER NOW THAT JOSHUA STILL HAD A JOB TO DO. 13:28:36 AS GREAT AS MOSES WAS, DESPITE ALL THAT HE DID, LEADING A 13:28:44 PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE, HE DIDN'T CROSS OVER THE RIVER TO SEE THE 13:28:51 PROMISED LAND. GOD TOLD HIM YOUR JOB IS DONE, 13:28:55 YOU'LL SEE IT. YOU'LL BE AT THE MOUNTAINTOP, 13:28:58 AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT I'VE PROMISED, WHAT I PROMISED TO 13:29:03 ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB AND I PROMISED TO YOU, YOU CAN SEE 13:29:07 THAT I WILL FULFILL THAT PROMISE. 13:29:10 BUT YOU WON'T GO THERE. WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE IT TO THE 13:29:14 JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS. 13:29:18 THERE'S STILL SOME BATTLES HA NEED TO BE FOUGHT, SOME RIVERS 13:29:21 THAT NEED TO BE CROSSED. LIKE MOSES, THE TASK WAS PASSED 13:29:27 ON TO THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AS DESERVING, MIGHT NOT 13:29:33 HAVE BEEN AS COURAGEOUS FIND THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF THE RISKS 13:29:37 THAT THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT 13:29:41 GRANDPARENTS HAD TAKEN, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY STILL DON'T 13:29:43 HAVE A BURDEN THAT THEY HAVE TO SHOULDER, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE 13:29:47 SOME RESPONSIBILITIES THE PREVIOUS GENERATION, THE MOSES 13:29:51 GENERATION POINTED THE WAY. THEY TOOK US 90% OF THE WAY 13:29:55 THERE, BUT WE STILL GOT THAT 10% IN ORDER TO CROSS OVER TO THE 13:30:00 OTHER SIDE. AND SO THE QUESTION, I GUESS, 13:30:05 THAT I HAVE TODAY IS WHAT'S CALLED OF US IN THIS JOSHUA 13:30:11 GENERATION? WHAT DO WE DO IN ORDER TO 13:30:13 FULFILL THAT LEGACY TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS AND THE DEBT 13:30:17 THAT WE OWE TO THOSE WHO ALLOWED US TO BE HERE TODAY? 13:30:22 NOW, I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVER FULLY REPAY THAT DEBT. 13:30:26 I THINK THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE LOOKING BACK, BUT THERE 13:30:33 ARE AT LEAST A FEW SUGGESTIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE IN TERMS OF 13:30:37 HOW WE MIGHT FULFILL THAT ENORMOUS LEGACY. 13:30:43 THE FIRST IS TO RECOGNIZE OUR HISTORY. 13:30:48 JOHN LEWIS TALKED ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY, BUT I WORRY 13:30:52 SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WE COME DOWN TO 13:30:57 MARCH EVERY YEAR ONCE A YEAR. WE OCCASIONALLY CELEBRATE THE 13:31:05 VARIOUS EVENTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 13:31:08 WE CELEBRATE DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY, BUT IT STRIKES ME THAT 13:31:12 UNDERSTANDING OUR HISTORY AND KNOWING WHAT IT MEANS IS AN 13:31:15 EVERYDAY ACTIVITY. YOU NOTICE WHEN MOSES SPOKE TO 13:31:23 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, TELLING THEM THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO BE 13:31:30 GOING WITH THEM, HE LAID OUT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND 13:31:34 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE SAID, BISHOP, WAS HE SAID, "KNOW YOUR 13:31:39 PAST. KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM. 13:31:41 KNOW HOW YOU WERE LED OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:31:45 KNOW HOW PHARAOH REFUSED TO LET YOU GO AND THAT GOD CAME DOWN 13:31:49 AND VISITED ALL MANNER OF PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE UNTIL FINALLY A 13:31:54 PEOPLE WERE FREED." MOSES TOLD THE JOSHUA 13:32:00 GENERATION, DON'T FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM, AND I WORRY 13:32:04 SOMETIMES THAT THE JOSHUA GENERATION IN ITS SUCCESS 13:32:08 FORGETS WHERE IT CAME FROM. THINKS IT DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE 13:32:12 AS MANY SACRIFICES, THINKS THAT THE VERY HEIGHT OF AMBITION IS 13:32:18 TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU CAN, TO DRIVE THE BIGGEST CAR 13:32:23 AND HAVE THE BIGGEST HOUSE AND WEAR A ROLEX WATCH AND GET YOUR 13:32:28 OWN PRIVATE JET, GET SOME OF THAT OPRAH MONEY, AND I THINK 13:32:37 THAT'S A GOOD THING. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH 13:32:40 MAKING MONEY BUT IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THEN YOU KNOW THAT 13:32:44 THERE'S A CERTAIN POVERTY OF AMBITION INVOLVED IN SIMPLY 13:32:50 STRIVING JUST FOR MONEY, MATERIALISM ALONE WILL NOT 13:32:58 FULFILL THE POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 13:33:01 YOU HAVE TO FILL THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 13:33:02 YOU HAVE TO FILL IT WITH THE GOLAN RULE. 13:33:05 YOU GOT TO FILL IT WITH THINKING ABOUT OTHERS, AND IF WE KNOW OUR 13:33:10 HISTORY, THEN WE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE HIGHEST MARK OF 13:33:16 SERVICE. SECOND THING THAT THE JOSHUA 13:33:19 GENERATION NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE PRINCIPLES OF 13:33:23 EQUALITY THAT WERE SET FORTH AND WERE BATTLED FOR HAVE TO BE 13:33:28 FOUGHT EACH AND EVERY DAY, IT IS NOT A ONE-TIME THING. 13:33:34 I WAS REMARKING AT THE UNITY BREAKFAST ON THE FACT THAT THE 13:33:40 SINGLE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONCERN THAT THIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 13:33:46 UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD WITH RESPECT TO 13:33:50 DISCRIMINATION HAS TO DO WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 13:33:53 THAT THEY HAVE BASICALLY SPENT ALL THEIR TIME WORRYING ABOUT 13:33:58 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE GIVEN A 13:34:01 LITTLE BREAK TO YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANICS 13:34:06 TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE TOO. 13:34:08 I HAD A SCHOOL IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THAT IT SET UP A 13:34:11 PROGRAM FOR Ph.D.s IN MATH AND SCIENCE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, 13:34:16 AND THE REASON THEY HAD SET IT UP IS BECAUSE WE ONLY HAD LESS 13:34:21 THAN 1% OF THE Ph.D.s, DOCTOR, IN SCIENCE AND MATH GO TO 13:34:27 AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE COMPETING IN A 13:34:30 GLOBAL ECONOMY -- WHEN WE'RE NOT JUST COMPETING AGAINST FOLKS IN 13:34:36 NORTH CAROLINA OR FLORIDA BUT IN CHINA AND INDIA AND WE NEED MATH 13:34:40 AND SCIENCE MAJORS, THIS UNIVERSITY THOUGHT THAT THIS 13:34:43 MIGHT BE A NICE THING TO DO, AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WROTE 13:34:46 THEM A LETTER SAYING WE ARE GOING TO THREATEN TO SUE YOU FOR 13:34:50 REVERSE DISCRIMINATION UNLESS YOU CEASE THIS PROGRAM, AND IT 13:34:56 REMINDS US THAT WE STILL GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO, AND THAT THE 13:35:02 BASIC ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS, THE 13:35:07 INJUSTICE THAT STILL EXISTS WITHIN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 13:35:11 SYSTEM, THE DISPARITY IN TERMS OF HOW PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN 13:35:17 THIS COUNTRY CONTINUES. IT HAS GOTTEN BETTER, AND WE 13:35:21 SHOULD NEVER DENY THAT IT'S GOTTEN BETTER, BUT WE SHOULDN'T 13:35:25 FORGET THAT BETTER IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, THAT UNTIL WE'VE GOT 13:35:30 ABSOLUTE EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY IN TERMS OF PEOPLE BEING 13:35:33 TREATED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR COLOR OR THEIR GENDER THAT THAT 13:35:37 IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON AND THE 13:35:42 JOSHUA GENERATION HAS A SIGNIFICANT TASK IN MAKING THAT 13:35:45 HAPPEN. THIRD THING, WE'VE GOT TO 13:35:51 RECOGNIZE THAT WE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, BUT WE'VE STILL 13:35:55 GOT A LOT OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH. 13:35:59 WE'VE GOT 46 -- 46 MILLION PEOPLE UNINSURED IN THIS COUNTRY 13:36:06 DESPITE SPENDING MORE MONEY ON HEALTH CARE THAN ANY NATION ON 13:36:08 EARTH. MAKES NO SENSE. 13:36:13 AS CONSEQUENCE WE'VE GOT WHAT'S KNOWN AS A HEALTH CARE DISPARITY 13:36:19 IN THIS NATION BECAUSE MANY OF THE UNINSURED ARE 13:36:23 AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR LATINO. LIFE EXPECTANCY IS LOWER, ALMOST 13:36:27 EVERY DISEASE IS HIGHER WITHIN MINORITY COMMUNITIES. 13:36:32 THE HEALTH CARE GAME. BLACKS ARE LESS LIKELY IN THEIR 13:36:35 SCHOOLS TO HAVE ADEQUATE FUNDING. 13:36:39 WE HAVE LESS QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:43 WE HAVE FEWER TEXTBOOKS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:47 WE GOT IN SOME SCHOOLS RATS OUTNUMBERING COMPUTERS. 13:36:52 THAT'S CALLED THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:36:55 YOU GOT A HEALTH CARE GAP. YOU'VE GOT AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:37:02 YOU'VE GOT KATRINA STILL UNDONE. WENT DUNN TO NEW ORLEANS THREE 13:37:11 WEEKS AGO. STILL LOOKS BOMBED OUT. 13:37:13 STILL NOT REBUILT. WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED, THE FEDERAL 13:37:19 GOVERNMENT HAS A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF GRANTS TO HELP REBUILD. 13:37:23 THEY WAIVED ANY REQUIREMENT THAT MANHATTAN WOULD HAVE TO PAY 10% 13:37:27 OF THE COST OF REBUILDING. WHEN HURRICANE FLORIDA -- 13:37:32 HURRICANE ANDREWS HAPPENED IN FLORIDA, 10% REQUIREMENT, THEY 13:37:36 WAIVED IT BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT SOME DISASTERS 13:37:39 ARE SO DEVASTATING THAT WE CAN'T EXPECT A COMMUNITY TO REBUILD. 13:37:46 NEW ORLEANS, THE LARGEST NATURAL CATASTROPHE IN OUR HISTORY, THE 13:37:52 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS, WHERE IS YOUR 10%? 13:37:58 THERE'S AN EMPATHY GAP. THERE'S A GAP IN TERMS OF 13:38:04 SYMPATHIZING FOR THOSE FOLKS IN NEW ORLEANS AS BAD AS 13:38:07 SYMPATHIZING WITH FOLKS ELSEWHERE. 13:38:09 IT'S NOT A GAP THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FELT BECAUSE WE SAW HOW 13:38:13 THEY RESPONDED. BUT SOMEHOW OUR GOVERNMENT 13:38:17 DIDN'T RESPOND WITH THAT SAME SENSE OF COMPASSION AND THAT 13:38:21 SAME SENSE OF KINDNESS. AND HERE'S THE WORST PART, THE 13:38:27 TRAGEDY IN NEW ORLEANS HAPPENED WELL BEFORE THE HURRICANE 13:38:32 STRUCK. BECAUSE MANY OF THOSE 13:38:34 COMMUNITIES THERE WERE SO MANY YOUNG MEN IN PRISON, SO MANY 13:38:38 KIDS DROPPING OUT, SO LITTLE HOPE, A HOPE GAP, A HOPE GAP 13:38:42 THAT STILL PERVADES TOO MANY COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE 13:38:45 COUNTRY AND RIGHT HERE IN ALABAMA. 13:38:49 SO THE QUESTION IS THEN, WHAT ARE WE THE JOSHUA GENERATION 13:38:53 DOING TO CLOSE THOSE GAPS? ARE WE DOING EVERY SINGLE THING 13:38:58 THAT WE CAN DO IN CONGRESS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT EARLY 13:39:02 EDUCATION IS ADEQUATELY FUNDED AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE 13:39:06 RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE SO IF SOMEBODY WORKS EACH AND EVERY 13:39:10 DAY THEY CAN HAVE SOME DIGNITY AND RESPECT? 13:39:12 ARE WE ENSURING IF SOMEBODY LOSES A JOB THAT THEY'RE GETTING 13:39:16 RETRAINED AND THAT IF THEY'VE LOST THEIR HEALTH CARE AND THEIR 13:39:21 PENSION THAT SOMEBODY IS THERE TO HELP THEM GET BACK ON THEIR 13:39:24 FEET? ARE WE MAKING SURE WE'RE GIVING 13:39:25 A SECOND CHANCE TO THOSE WHO HAVE STRAYED AND GONE TO PRISON 13:39:29 BUT WANT TO START A NEW LIFE? GOVERNMENT ALONE CAN'T SOLVE ALL 13:39:37 THOSE PROBLEMS, BUT GOVERNMENT CAN HELP, AND IT'S THE 13:39:41 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE 13:39:48 A GOVERNMENT AS RESPONSIBLE AS THE NEED EXISTS ALL ACROSS 13:39:52 AMERICA BUT THAT BRINGS ME TO ONE OTHER POINT THOUGH, JOSHUA 13:39:56 GENERATION, AND THAT IS THIS, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ENOUGH 13:40:01 JUST TO ASK WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR US, IT'S IMPORTANT 13:40:05 FOR US TO ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OURSELVES. 13:40:10 YET ONE OF THE SIGNATURE ASPECTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS 13:40:15 THE DEGREE OF DISCIPLINE AND FORTITUDE THAT WAS INSTILLED IN 13:40:21 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED. IMAGINE YOUNG PEOPLE, 16, 17, 13:40:29 20, 21 BACK STRAIGHT, EYES CLEAR, SUIT AND TIE SITTING DOWN 13:40:37 AT A LUNCH COUNTER KNOW BE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SPILL MILK 13:40:40 ON YOU BUT YOU HAVE THE DISCIPLINE TO UNDERSTAND THAT 13:40:43 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RETALIATE BECAUSE IN SHOWING THE WORLD HOW 13:40:48 DISCIPLINED WE WERE AS A PEOPLE, WE WERE ABLE TO WIN OVER THE 13:40:53 CONSCIENCE OF A NATION. I CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN THAT WE 13:41:00 HAVE INSTILLED THAT SAME SENSE OF MORAL CLARITY AND PURPOSE IN 13:41:05 THIS GENERATION. BISHOP, SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE 13:41:08 WE'VE LOST IT A LITTLE BIT. YOU KNOW, I'M FIGHTING TO MAKE 13:41:14 SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE ADEQUATELY FUNDED. 13:41:16 ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE HAVE INEQUITIES IN HOW SCHOOLS ARE 13:41:20 FUNDED BECAUSE IT'S RELIED ON PROPERTY TAXES AND PEOPLE WHO 13:41:23 HAPPEN TO BE BORN IN WEALTHY DISTRICTS, SOMEHOW THEY GET 13:41:28 BETTER SCHOOLS THAN FOLKS WHO ARE BORN IN POOR DISTRICTS AND 13:41:32 THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. 13:41:34 THAT'S NOT THE AMERICAN WAY, BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, EVEN AS I FIGHT 13:41:38 ON BEHALF OF MORE EDUCATION FUNDING, MORE EQUITY, I HAVE TO 13:41:42 ALSO SAY THAT IF PARENTS DON'T TURN OFF THE TELEVISION SET WHEN 13:41:47 THE CHILD COMES HOME FROM SCHOOL, AND MAKE SURE THEY SIT 13:41:52 DOWN AND DO THEIR HOMEWORK AND GO TALK TO THE TEACHERS AND FIND 13:41:56 OUT HOW THEY'RE DOING AND IF WE DON'T START INSTILLING A SENSE 13:41:59 IN OUR YOUNG CHILDREN, THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED 13:42:04 ABOUT IN EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, I DON'T KNOW WHO 13:42:07 CAUGHT THEM THAT READING AND WRITING AND CONJUGATING YOUR 13:42:11 VERBS WAS ACTING WHITE, WE'VE GOT TO GET OVER THAT MENTALITY. 13:42:14 WE'VE GOT TO DO FOR OURSEOURSEL. THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE MOSES 13:42:19 GENERATION TEACHES US, NOT SAYING TO OURSELVES WE CAN'T DO 13:42:23 SOMETHING BUT TELLING OURSELVES THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE. 13:42:27 WE CAN DO THAT. WE'VE GOT POWER IN OUR HANDS. 13:42:36 FOLKS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR GOVERNMENT. 13:42:39 I UNDERSTAND THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE COMPLAINING ABOUT. 13:42:45 I'M IN WASHINGTON. I SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 13:42:48 I SEE THOSE POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES HAVE SNUCK BACK 13:42:52 IN THERE. THAT THEY'RE WRITING THE ENERGY 13:42:55 BILLS AND THE DRUG LAWS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT. 13:42:58 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, I ALSO KNOW THAT IF COUSIN POOKIE WOULD 13:43:05 VOTE, IF UNCLE JETHRO WOULD GET OFF THE COUCH AND STOP WATCHING 13:43:12 "SPORTSCENTER" AND GO REGISTER SOME FOLKS AND GO TO THE POLLS, 13:43:15 WE MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF POLITICS. 13:43:18 THAT'S WHAT THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US. 13:43:23 KICK OFF YOUR BEDROOM SLIPPERS, PUT ON YOUR MARCHING SHOES, GO 13:43:28 DO SOME POLITICS, CHANGE THIS COUNTRY. 13:43:30 THAT'S WHAT THEY TEACH US. WE'VE GOT TOO MANY CHILDREN IN 13:43:39 POVERTY IN THIS COUNTRY, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ASHAMED. 13:43:43 BUT DON'T TELL ME EARTH DOESN'T HAVE A LITTLE TO DO WITH THE 13:43:46 FACT THAT WE GOT TOO MANY DADDIES NOT ACTING LIKE DADDIES. 13:43:53 I THINK THAT -- THINK THAT FATHERHOOD ENDS AT CONCEPTION, I 13:43:59 KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE MY FATHER WASN'T AROUND 13:44:02 WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND I STRUGGLED. 13:44:07 THOSE OF YOU WHO READ MY BOOK KNOW. 13:44:09 I WENT THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT TIMES. 13:44:11 I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A STRONG MALE FIGURE 13:44:15 IN THE HOUSE, WHICH IS WHY THE HARDEST THING ABOUT ME BEING IN 13:44:19 POLITICS SOMETIMES IS NOT BEING HOME AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE AND I'M 13:44:22 JUST BLESSED THAT I'VE GOT SUCH A WONDERFUL WIFE AT HOME TO HOLD 13:44:26 THINGS TOGETHER, BUT DON'T TELL ME THAT WE CAN'T DO BETTER BY 13:44:36 OUR CHILDREN, THAT WE CAN'T TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE 13:44:40 WE'RE INSTILLING IN THEM THE VALUES AND THE IDEAS THAT THE 13:44:43 MOSES GENERATION TAUGHT US ABOUT SACRIFICE AND DIGNITY AND 13:44:47 HONESTY AND HARD WORK AND DISCIPLINE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. 13:44:51 THAT COMES FROM US. WE'VE GOT TO TRANSMIT THAT TO 13:44:56 THE NEXT GENERATION AND I GUESS THE POINT THAT I'M MAKE 13:44:58 SOMETHING THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WASN'T JUST A FIGHT 13:45:03 AGAINST THE OPPRESSOR, IT WAS ALSO A FIGHT AGAINST THE 13:45:06 OPPRESSOR IN EACH OF US. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S EASY TO 13:45:12 JUST POINT AT SOMEBODY ELSE AND SAY, IT'S THERE THEIR FAULT BUT 13:45:17 OPPRESSION HAS A WAY OF CREEPING INTO YOU, REVEREND. 13:45:19 IT HAS A WAY OF STUNTING YOURSELF. 13:45:23 YOU START TELLING YOURSELF, BISHOP, I CAN'T DO SOMETHING. 13:45:27 I CAN'T READ, I CAN'T -- I CAN'T GO TO COLLEGE. 13:45:30 I CAN'T START A BUSINESS. I CAN'T RUN FOR CONGRESS. 13:45:33 I CAN'T RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, PEOPLE START TELLING YOU CAN'T 13:45:38 DO SOMETHING, AFTER A WHILE, YOU TART BELIEVING IT. 13:45:44 AND PART OF WHAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS ABOUT WAS 13:45:47 RECOGNIZING THAT WE HAVE TO TRANSFORM OURSELVES IN ORDER TO 13:45:50 TRANSFORM THE WORLD. MAHATMA GANDHI, THE GREAT HERO 13:45:57 OF DR. KING AND THE PERSON WHO HELPED CREATE THE NONVIOLENT 13:46:03 MOVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD, HE ONCE SAID THAT "YOU CAN'T CHANGE 13:46:07 THE WORLD IF YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED. 13:46:10 IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, THE CHANGE HAS TO HAPPEN WITH 13:46:13 YOU FIRST." AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE 13:46:19 GREATEST AND MOST HONORABLE OF GENERATIONS HAS TAUGHT US. 13:46:26 BUT THE FINAL THING THAT I THINK THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US 13:46:29 IS TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE DO WHAT WE DO BECAUSE GOD IS 13:46:35 WITH US. YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES WAS FIRST 13:46:41 CALLED TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT OF THE PROMISED LAND, HE SAID, "I DON'T 13:46:45 THINK I CAN DO IT, LORD. I DON'T SPEAK LIKE REVEREND 13:46:49 LOWERY. I DON'T -- I DON'T FEEL BRAVE 13:46:53 AND COURAGEOUS" AND THE LORD SAID "I WILL BE WITH YOU. 13:46:59 THROW DOWN THAT ROD, PICK IT BACK UP. 13:47:03 I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO." 13:47:06 AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:47:14 JOSHUA SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M SCARED. 13:47:17 I'M NOT SURE THAT I AM UP TO THE CHALLENGE, AND THE LORD SAID TO 13:47:25 HIM, EVERY PLACE THAT THE SOUL OF YOUR FOOT WILL TREAD UPON, I 13:47:31 HAVE GIVEN YOU. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I 13:47:36 AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:47:43 THAT'S A PRAYER FOR A JOURNEY, A PRAYER THAT KEPT A WOMAN IN HER 13:47:47 SEAT WHEN THE BUS DRIVER TOLD HER TO GET UP, A PRAYER THAT LED 13:47:50 NINE CHILDREN THROUGH THE DOORS OF A LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL, A 13:47:53 PRAYER THAT CARRIED OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER A BRIDGE RIGHT 13:47:57 HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE WHEN 13:48:02 YOU SEE ROW AND ROW OF STATE TROOPER FACING YOU, YOU SEE THE 13:48:07 HORSES AND THE TEAR GAS, HOW ELSE CAN YOU WALK TOWARDS THEM 13:48:10 UNARMED AND UNAFRAID? WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU AND 13:48:13 START BEATING YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR NEIGHBORS HOW ELSE CAN YOU 13:48:17 SIMPLY KNEEL DOWN, BOW YOUR HEAD AND ASK THE LORD FOR SALVATION 13:48:20 WHEN YOU SEE HEADS GASHED OPEN AND EYES BURNING AND LITTLE 13:48:24 CHILDREN LYING HURT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WHEN YOU'RE JOHN 13:48:28 LEWIS AND YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE ON 13:48:31 SUNDAY HOW DO YOU WAKE UP ON MONDAY AND KEEP ON MARCHING? 13:48:34 BE STRONG, AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. 13:48:41 WE'VE COME A LONG WAY IN THIS JOURNEY, BUT WE STILL HAVE A 13:48:46 LONG WAY TO TRAVEL. WE TRAVEL BECAUSE GOD WAS WITH 13:48:52 US. IT'S NOT HOW FAR WE'VE COME THIS 13:48:55 FAR ON OUR JOURNEY. THAT BRIDGE OUTSIDE WAS CROSSED 13:48:58 BY BLACKS AND WHITES, NORTHERNERS AND SOUTHERNERS, 13:49:01 TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN, SHOPKEEPERS AND JANITORS, A 13:49:04 BELOVED COMMUNITY OF GOD'S CHILDREN WILLING TO TAKE THOSE 13:49:07 STEPS TOGETHER. BUT IT WAS LEFT TO THE JOSHUAS 13:49:12 TO FINISH THE JOURNEY MOSES HAD BEGUN AND TODAY WE'RE CALLED TO 13:49:15 BE THE JOSHUAS OF OUR TIME, TO BE THE GENERATION THAT FINDS OUR 13:49:19 WAY ACROSS THIS RIVER, THERE WILL BE DAYS WHEN THE WATER 13:49:23 SEEMS WIDE AND THE JOURNEY TOO FAR, BUT IN THOSE MOMENTS WE 13:49:27 MUST REMEMBER THAT THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, THERE HAS BEEN A 13:49:31 RUNNING THREAD OF IDEALS THAT HAVE GUIDED OUR TRAVELS AND 13:49:35 PUSHED US FORWARD EVEN WHEN THEY'RE JUST BEYOND OUR REACH, 13:49:40 LIBERTY IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY, EQUALITY IN THE FACE OF BITTER 13:49:44 INJUSTICE, OPPORTUNITY WHERE THERE WAS NONE AND HOPE OVER THE 13:49:46 MOST CRUSHING DE SPARE, THOSE IDEALS, THOSE VALUES, THEY 13:49:50 BECKON US STILL, AND WHEN WE HAVE OUR DOUBTS AND OUR FEARS, 13:49:53 JUST LIKE JOSHUA DID, WHEN THE ROAD LOOKS TOO LONG AND IT SEEMS 13:49:57 LIKE WE MAY LOSE OUR WAY, REMEMBER WHAT THESE PEOPLE DID 13:50:01 ON THAT BRIDGE, KEEPING YOUR H 13:50:07 HEART, THE PRAYER OF THAT JOURNEY, THE PRAYER THAT GOD 13:50:09 GAVE TO JOSHUA, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF 13:50:16 INJUSTICE, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF PREJUDICE 13:50:21 AND HATRED, IN THE FACE OF JOBLESSNESS AND HELPLESSNESS AND 13:50:28 HOPELESSNESS, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:50:30 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED TODAY IN THE FACE 13:50:34 OF OUR DOUBTS AND FEARS, IN THE FACE OF SKEPTICISM, IN THE FACE 13:50:39 OF CYNICISM, IN THE FACE OF A MIGHTY RIVER, BE STRONG AND HAVE 13:50:44 COURAGE AND LET US CROSS OVER THAT PROMISED LAND TOGETHER. 13:50:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY. GOD BLESS YOU. END SENATOR BARACK OBAMA

[VOTE 2008 / OBAMA AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA] [SELMA, ALA USA] FTG OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-ILL) AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA 12:28:32 Obama standing 12:29:01 Obama sits back down 12:41:55 Obama receiving a standing ovation 12:42:08 Obama smiling and laughing 12:46:07 Obama standing behind preacher 12:46:21 Obama clapping and sitting back down 12:52:41 Obama clapping 13:16:19 I want to start by saying I want to thank him for his support . 13:17:14 Somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage . 13:17:39 To all the distinguished guests and clergy. I'm not sure I'm going to thank the . because he stole the show . nervous about following so many great clergy men .. 13:18:31 Thanks you very much for letting me speak . after I announced I was running for president of the united states . drawing from script 13:19:24 I acknowledge there is a certain amount of presumptuousness with this . his son is now preacher at my church . I got a letter giving me encouragement telling me how proud he was and reminded me to stay true to my ideals . tell them to look at the story of Joshua . 13:20:37 So I just want to talk a little bit about . we are in the presence today of a lot of Moses' . people who battle on behalf of all of America . endured taunts and torments . gave full measure of their devotion . who said that some are atop and some are at the bottom and that's how it will always be . 13:22:53 They wondered through a desert and knowing that god was with them . and it's because they marched that the next generation has not been as bloodied . it's because they marched that I stand here today . 13:23:54 Because not only is my career the result of the men and women we honor here today, my very existence might not have happened . you don't understand, my grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya . 13:25:24 Yet something happened here in Selma Alabama . 13:26:25 Worried folks in the white house, we're fighting communism . the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift . this young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets . 13:27:46 Don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma Alabama . I'm here because ya'll sacrificed or me . I stand on your shoulders . 13:32:36 Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence, you have to fill that . second thing is the principals of equality is not a one sided thing . 13:33:43 They have basically spent all their time worrying about affirmative action . reminds us we still have a lot work to do . we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough . that is something that we have got to continue to work on 13:35:40 Third thing, we fought for civil rights, but we still have a lot of economic rights to work for . we've got what's know as a health care disparity . life expectancy is lower in the minorities . we have fewer teachers and text books in the schools . health care gap and achievement gap 13:37:00 New Orleans still looks bombed out . when 9-11 happened, they waived any requirement . because they understood . federal government says where's your 10%. There's an empathy gap . 13:38:02 Not a gap the American people felt . the government was the problem . because many of those communities . hope gap . 13:38:40 The question is, what are we the Joshua generation doing to close the gap .. Are we ensuring . and giving a second chance 13:39:29 Government can help . make sure the government is responsive . it's enough to ask with the government can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves . 13:41:24 I tell you what, even as I fight for more education funding . if parents don't turn off the television set . it we don't instill a sense in our young children . we've got to get over that mentality . 13:42:14 Telling ourselves we can achieve . we can do that. We can achieve. 13:42:37 I'm in Washington, I see what's going on . I also know that cousin poky wasn't voting . kick off your marching slippers, put on your marching shoes . 13:43:44 They think that fatherhood ends at conception . I went through some difficult times . 13:44:53 It wasn't just a fight against the oppressor, it was a fight against the oppressor in all of us . it has a way of stunting yourself . part of what the civil rights movement was realizing you have to change more then just ourselves . 13:46:04 That is something that the greatest and the most honorable of generations has taught us . we do what we do because God is with us . 13:46:56 The same thing happened with the Joshua generation . not sure I can do this . be strong and have courage . that's a prayer for a journey . 13:48:31 We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to go . that bridge was crossed . and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our generation .. Liberty in the face of injustice . 13:49:56 Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey . be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice . hopelessness 13:50:29 In the face of a mighty river, be strong and have courage and lets cross that bridge together, thank you 13:50:55 Obama embracing various members of the clergy on stage 13:51:37 Obama sits back down 13:56:42 Obama head down in prayer and song SEGMENT [1] 2007/03/04 ************************************************ SENATOR BARACK OBAMA SPEAKING AT THE BROWN CHAPEL IN SELMA, ALABAMA 13:16:08 SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: I MUST BEGIN BECAUSE AT THE 13:16:16 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS MORNING, I WAS SAVING HIM FOR LAST AND THE 13:16:20 LIST OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WAS SO LONG, I LEFT HIM OUT AFTER THAT 13:16:25 INTRODUCTION, SO I'M GOING TO START BY SAYING HOW MUCH I 13:16:29 APPRECIATE THE FRIENDSHIP AND THE SUPPORT AND THE OUTSTANDING 13:16:33 WORK THAT HE DOES EACH AND EVERY DAY, NOT JUST IN CAPITOL HILL 13:16:39 BUT ALSO BACK HERE IN THE DISTRICT, PLEASE GIVE A WARM 13:16:42 ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN ARTUR DAVIS. 13:16:45 [ APPLAUSE ] IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE, 13:16:58 REVEREND JACKSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TO THE FAMILY OF BROWN 13:17:04 AM & E AND BISHOP KIRKLAND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL 13:17:09 MESSAGE AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE OF THE 13:17:16 GREAT HEROS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND AMERICAN LIFE, SOMEBODY WHO 13:17:29 CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF DECENCY AND COURAGE, SOMEBODY WHO I HAVE 13:17:35 ADMIRED ALL MY LIFE AND WERE IT NOT FOR HIM I'M NOT SURE I WOULD 13:17:41 BE HERE TODAY, CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, I'M THANKFUL TO HIM. 13:17:44 [ APPLAUSE ] TO ALL THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS 13:17:51 AND CLERGY, I'M NOT SURE I'M GOING TO THANK REVEREND LOWERY 13:17:56 BECAUSE HE STOLE THE SHOW. [ LAUGHTER ] 13:18:06 I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER I KNOW WE'VE GOT C.T. VIVIAN AND ALL 13:18:11 THIS. WHEN YOU HAVE TO SPEAK IN FRONT 13:18:12 OF SOMEBODY WHO MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID WAS THE GREATEST 13:18:15 PREACHER HE EVER HEARD THEN YOU GOT SOME PROBLEMS, AND I'M A 13:18:19 LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT FOLLOWING SO MANY GREAT PREACHERS. 13:18:28 BUT I AM HOPING THAT THE SPIRIT MOVES ME. 13:18:31 TO ALL MY CONGRESSIONAL COLLEAGUES AND OTHER ELECTED 13:18:34 OFFICIALS WERE HERE, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO HAVE GIVEN ME SUCH A 13:18:38 WARM WELCOME, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TO 13:18:42 YOU HERE TODAY. YOU KNOW, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, 13:18:50 AFTER I HAD ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF 13:18:55 THE UNITED STATES, I STOOD IN FRONT OF THE OLD STATE CAPITOL 13:18:59 IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DELIVERED HIS 13:19:05 SPEECH DECLARING DASH DRAWING FROM SCRIPTURE THAT A HOUSE 13:19:09 DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF COULD NOT STAND, AND I STOOD AND I 13:19:13 ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY, AND THERE WERE A 13:19:17 LOT OF COMMENTATORS AS THEY ARE PRONE TO DO WHO QUESTIONED THE 13:19:24 AUDACITY OF A YOUNG MAN LIKE MYSELF, HADN'T BEEN IN 13:19:29 WASHINGTON TOO LONG AND I ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE'S A 13:19:34 CERTAIN PRESUMPTUOUSNESS ABOUT THIS, BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM A 13:19:40 FRIEND OF SOME OF YOURS NAMED REVEREND OTIS MALSH JR. IN 13:19:49 CLEVELAND, ILLINOIS, AND HIS SON, OTIS MOSS III IS NOW 13:19:54 PASTORING AT MY CHURCH, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST AND I 13:19:59 MUST SEND GREETINGS FROM OUR SENIOR PASTOR DR. INJURE MYA A. 13:20:05 WRIGHT JR., BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM REVEREND OTIS MOSS JR. 13:20:10 GIVING ME ENCOURAGEMENT AND SAYING HOW PROUD HE WAS THAT I 13:20:15 HAD ANNOUNCED, AND ENCOURAGING ME TO STAY TRUE TO MY IDEALS AND 13:20:23 MY VALUES AND NOT TO BE FEARFUL AND HE SAID IF THERE'S SOME 13:20:29 FOLKS OUT THERE WHO ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT YOU 13:20:34 SHOULD RUN, JUST TELL THEM TO LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOSHUA. 13:20:43 BECAUSE YOU'RE PART OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:20:47 AND SO I JUST WANT TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT MOSES AND AARON AND 13:20:53 JOSHUA. BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE 13:21:00 TODAY OF A LOT OF MOSESS. WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE TODAY OF 13:21:08 GIANTS WHOSE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON, PEOPLE WHO BATTLED ON 13:21:17 BEHALF, NOT JUST OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, BUT ON BEHALF 13:21:21 OF ALL OF AMERICA, THAT BATTLED FOR AMERICA'S SOUL, THAT SHED 13:21:31 BLOOD, THAT ENDURED TAUNTS AND TORMENT AND IN SOME CASES GAVE 13:21:37 THE FULL MEASURE OF THEIR DEVOTION. 13:21:41 LIKE MOSES, THEY CHALLENGED FARROW, THE PRINCES AND POWERS, 13:21:51 WHO SAID THAT SOME ARE ATOP AND OTHERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM, AND 13:21:57 THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE. 13:22:00 THERE WERE PEOPLE LIKE ANNA COOPER AND MARIE FOSTER AND 13:22:05 JIMMY LEE JACKSON AND MAURICE OLETT, C.T. VIVIAN, REVEREND 13:22:13 LOWERY, JOHN LEWIS, WHO SAID WE CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, 13:22:19 THAT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE FOR US TOO. 13:22:23 THAT GOD HAS MADE US IN HIS IMAGE, AND THAT WE REJECT THE 13:22:28 NOTION THAT WE WILL FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES BE CONFINED TO A 13:22:33 STATION OF INFERIORITY, THAT WE CAN ASPIRE TO THE HIGHEST OF 13:22:39 HEIGHTS THAT OUR TALENTS CAN BE EXPRESSED TO THEIR FULLEST. 13:22:45 AND SO BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY ENDURED, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY 13:22:50 MARCHED, THEY LED A PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:22:56 THEY TOOK THEM ACROSS A SEA THAT FOLKS THOUGHT COULD NOT BE 13:23:02 PARTED. THEY WANDERED THROUGH A DESERT, 13:23:06 BUT ALWAYS KNOWING THAT GOD WAS WITH THEM AND THAT IF THEY 13:23:11 MAINTAINED THAT TRUST IN GOD, THAT THEY WOULD BE ALL RIGHT. 13:23:17 AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT THE NEXT GENERATION HASN'T 13:23:25 BEEN BLOODED SO MUCH. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT 13:23:28 WE ELECTED COUNCILMEN AND CONGRESSMEN. 13:23:32 IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT WE HAVE ARTUR DAVIS AND KEITH 13:23:37 ELLISON. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I 13:23:39 GOT THE KIND OF EDUCATION I GOT, THAT I GOT A LAW DEGREE AND A 13:23:45 SEAT IN THE ILLINOIS SENATE AND ULTIMATELY IN THE UNITED STATES 13:23:48 SENATE IS BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU HERE 13:23:50 TODAY. AND I WAS MENTIONING AT THE 13:24:02 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS IMPORTANT, MY DEBT IS EVEN GREATER THAN 13:24:05 THAT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS MY CAREER THE RESULT OF THE WORK OF 13:24:13 THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WE HONOR HERE TODAY, MY VERY EXISTENCE 13:24:21 MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SOME OF THE 13:24:24 FOLKS HERE TODAY. I MENTIONED AT THE UNITY 13:24:28 BREAKFAST THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING, WELL, YOU 13:24:31 KNOW, YOUR FATHER WAS FROM AFRICA, YOUR MOTHER, SHE'S A 13:24:35 WHITE WOMAN FROM KANSAS, I'M NOT SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME 13:24:39 EXPERIENCE, AND I TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT. 13:24:41 YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU SEE, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A 13:24:45 COOK TO THE BRITISH IN KENYA, GREW UP IN A SMALL VILLAGE, AND 13:24:52 ALL HIS LIFE THAT'S ALL HE WAS WAS A COOK AND A HOUSEBOY AND 13:24:56 THAT'S WHAT THEY CALLED HIM EVEN WHEN HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD THEY 13:25:00 CALLED HIM A HOUSEBOY. WOULDN'T CALL HIM BY HIS LAST 13:25:05 NAME. CALLED HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME. 13:25:08 SOUND FAMILIAR? AND HE HAD TO CARRY A PASSBOOK 13:25:14 AROUND, BECAUSE AFRICANS IN THEIR OWN LAND IN THEIR OWN 13:25:17 COUNTRY AT THAT TIME BECAUSE IT WAS A BRITISH COLONY COULD NOT 13:25:22 MOVE ABOUT FREELY. THEY COULD ONLY GO WHERE THEY 13:25:25 WERE TOLD TO G THEY COULD ONLY WORK WHERE THEY WERE TOLD TO 13:25:31 WORK, AND YET SOMETHING HAPPENED BACK HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA, 13:25:37 SOMETHING HAPPENED IN BIRMINGHAM THAT SENT OUT WHAT BOBBY KENNEDY 13:25:41 CALLED RIPPLES OF HOPE ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 13:25:44 SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN A BUNCH OF WOMEN DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO 13:25:49 WALK INSTEAD OF RIDE THE BUS AFTER A LONG DAY OF DOING 13:25:53 SOMEBODY ELSE'S LAUNDRY AND LOOKING AFTER SOMEBODY ELSE'S 13:25:55 CHILDREN WHEN MEN WHO HAD Ph.D.s WERE WORKING AS PORTERS DECIDED 13:26:01 THAT'S ENOUGH AND WE'RE GOING TO STAND UP DESPITE THE RISKS FOR 13:26:04 OUR DIGNITY AND I RESPECT THAT CENTER SHOUT ACROSS OCEANS SO 13:26:10 THAT MY GRANDFATHER BEGAN TO IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR 13:26:14 HIS SON AND HIS SON WHO GREW UP HERDING GOATS IN A SMALL VILLAGE 13:26:19 IN AFRICA COULD SUDDENLY SET HIS SIGHTS A LITTLE HIGHER AND 13:26:24 SUDDENLY BELIEVE THAT MAYBE A BLACK MAN IN THIS WORLD HAD A 13:26:29 CHANCE, AND WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA AND BIRMINGHAM 13:26:33 ALSO STIRRED THE CONSCIENCE OF A NATION AND IT WORRIED FOLKS IN 13:26:38 THE WHITE HOUSE WHO SAID WE'RE BATTLING COMMUNISM, HOW ARE WE 13:26:41 GOING TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD IF 13:26:44 RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JOHN, WE'RE NOT OBSERVING THE 13:26:49 IDEALS THAT ARE SET FORTH IN OUR CONSTITUTION? 13:26:52 WE MIGHT BE ACCUSED OF BEING HYPOCRITES SO THE KENNEDYS 13:26:56 DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO DO AN AIRLIFT. 13:26:59 WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT TO AFRICA AND WE'RE GOING TO START 13:27:02 BRINGING YOUNG AFRICANS OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND BRING THEM 13:27:05 SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN WHAT A WONDERFUL 13:27:09 COUNTRY AMERICA IS AND THIS YOUNG MAN NAMED BARACK OBAMA GOT 13:27:13 ONE OF THOSE TICKETS AND CAME OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND HE MET 13:27:20 THIS WOMAN, WHOSE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER HAD 13:27:25 OWNED SLAVES, BUT SHE HAD A DIFFERENT IDEA. 13:27:29 THERE'S SOME GOOD CRAZINESS GOING ON BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AT 13:27:32 EACH OTHER AND THEY DECIDED, WE KNOW THAT IN THE WORLD AS IT HAS 13:27:36 BEEN IT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET TOGETHER AND HAVE 13:27:39 A CHILD, BUT SOMETHING IS STIRRING ACROSS THE COUNTRY 13:27:42 BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA, BECAUSE SOME 13:27:46 FOLKS ARE WILLING TO MARCH ACROSS THE BRIDGE. 13:27:49 AND SO THEY GOT TOGETHER AND BARACK OBAMA JR. WAS BORN. 13:27:55 SO DON'T TELL ME I DON'T HAVE A CLAIM ON SELMA, ALABAMA. 13:28:00 DON'T TELL ME I'M NOT COMING HOME WHEN I COME TO SELMA, 13:28:03 ALABAMA. I'M HERE BECAUSE SOMEBODY 13:28:06 MARCHED FOR OUR FREEDOM. I'M HERE BECAUSE Y'ALL 13:28:11 SACRIFICED FOR ME. I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF 13:28:19 THIS. I THANK THE MOSES GENERATION. 13:28:27 BUT WE GOT TO REMEMBER NOW THAT JOSHUA STILL HAD A JOB TO DO. 13:28:36 AS GREAT AS MOSES WAS, DESPITE ALL THAT HE DID, LEADING A 13:28:44 PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE, HE DIDN'T CROSS OVER THE RIVER TO SEE THE 13:28:51 PROMISED LAND. GOD TOLD HIM YOUR JOB IS DONE, 13:28:55 YOU'LL SEE IT. YOU'LL BE AT THE MOUNTAINTOP, 13:28:58 AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT I'VE PROMISED, WHAT I PROMISED TO 13:29:03 ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB AND I PROMISED TO YOU, YOU CAN SEE 13:29:07 THAT I WILL FULFILL THAT PROMISE. 13:29:10 BUT YOU WON'T GO THERE. WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE IT TO THE 13:29:14 JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS. 13:29:18 THERE'S STILL SOME BATTLES HA NEED TO BE FOUGHT, SOME RIVERS 13:29:21 THAT NEED TO BE CROSSED. LIKE MOSES, THE TASK WAS PASSED 13:29:27 ON TO THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AS DESERVING, MIGHT NOT 13:29:33 HAVE BEEN AS COURAGEOUS FIND THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF THE RISKS 13:29:37 THAT THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT 13:29:41 GRANDPARENTS HAD TAKEN, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY STILL DON'T 13:29:43 HAVE A BURDEN THAT THEY HAVE TO SHOULDER, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE 13:29:47 SOME RESPONSIBILITIES THE PREVIOUS GENERATION, THE MOSES 13:29:51 GENERATION POINTED THE WAY. THEY TOOK US 90% OF THE WAY 13:29:55 THERE, BUT WE STILL GOT THAT 10% IN ORDER TO CROSS OVER TO THE 13:30:00 OTHER SIDE. AND SO THE QUESTION, I GUESS, 13:30:05 THAT I HAVE TODAY IS WHAT'S CALLED OF US IN THIS JOSHUA 13:30:11 GENERATION? WHAT DO WE DO IN ORDER TO 13:30:13 FULFILL THAT LEGACY TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS AND THE DEBT 13:30:17 THAT WE OWE TO THOSE WHO ALLOWED US TO BE HERE TODAY? 13:30:22 NOW, I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVER FULLY REPAY THAT DEBT. 13:30:26 I THINK THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE LOOKING BACK, BUT THERE 13:30:33 ARE AT LEAST A FEW SUGGESTIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE IN TERMS OF 13:30:37 HOW WE MIGHT FULFILL THAT ENORMOUS LEGACY. 13:30:43 THE FIRST IS TO RECOGNIZE OUR HISTORY. 13:30:48 JOHN LEWIS TALKED ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY, BUT I WORRY 13:30:52 SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WE COME DOWN TO 13:30:57 MARCH EVERY YEAR ONCE A YEAR. WE OCCASIONALLY CELEBRATE THE 13:31:05 VARIOUS EVENTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 13:31:08 WE CELEBRATE DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY, BUT IT STRIKES ME THAT 13:31:12 UNDERSTANDING OUR HISTORY AND KNOWING WHAT IT MEANS IS AN 13:31:15 EVERYDAY ACTIVITY. YOU NOTICE WHEN MOSES SPOKE TO 13:31:23 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, TELLING THEM THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO BE 13:31:30 GOING WITH THEM, HE LAID OUT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND 13:31:34 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE SAID, BISHOP, WAS HE SAID, "KNOW YOUR 13:31:39 PAST. KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM. 13:31:41 KNOW HOW YOU WERE LED OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:31:45 KNOW HOW PHARAOH REFUSED TO LET YOU GO AND THAT GOD CAME DOWN 13:31:49 AND VISITED ALL MANNER OF PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE UNTIL FINALLY A 13:31:54 PEOPLE WERE FREED." MOSES TOLD THE JOSHUA 13:32:00 GENERATION, DON'T FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM, AND I WORRY 13:32:04 SOMETIMES THAT THE JOSHUA GENERATION IN ITS SUCCESS 13:32:08 FORGETS WHERE IT CAME FROM. THINKS IT DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE 13:32:12 AS MANY SACRIFICES, THINKS THAT THE VERY HEIGHT OF AMBITION IS 13:32:18 TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU CAN, TO DRIVE THE BIGGEST CAR 13:32:23 AND HAVE THE BIGGEST HOUSE AND WEAR A ROLEX WATCH AND GET YOUR 13:32:28 OWN PRIVATE JET, GET SOME OF THAT OPRAH MONEY, AND I THINK 13:32:37 THAT'S A GOOD THING. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH 13:32:40 MAKING MONEY BUT IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THEN YOU KNOW THAT 13:32:44 THERE'S A CERTAIN POVERTY OF AMBITION INVOLVED IN SIMPLY 13:32:50 STRIVING JUST FOR MONEY, MATERIALISM ALONE WILL NOT 13:32:58 FULFILL THE POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 13:33:01 YOU HAVE TO FILL THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 13:33:02 YOU HAVE TO FILL IT WITH THE GOLAN RULE. 13:33:05 YOU GOT TO FILL IT WITH THINKING ABOUT OTHERS, AND IF WE KNOW OUR 13:33:10 HISTORY, THEN WE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE HIGHEST MARK OF 13:33:16 SERVICE. SECOND THING THAT THE JOSHUA 13:33:19 GENERATION NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE PRINCIPLES OF 13:33:23 EQUALITY THAT WERE SET FORTH AND WERE BATTLED FOR HAVE TO BE 13:33:28 FOUGHT EACH AND EVERY DAY, IT IS NOT A ONE-TIME THING. 13:33:34 I WAS REMARKING AT THE UNITY BREAKFAST ON THE FACT THAT THE 13:33:40 SINGLE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONCERN THAT THIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 13:33:46 UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD WITH RESPECT TO 13:33:50 DISCRIMINATION HAS TO DO WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 13:33:53 THAT THEY HAVE BASICALLY SPENT ALL THEIR TIME WORRYING ABOUT 13:33:58 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE GIVEN A 13:34:01 LITTLE BREAK TO YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANICS 13:34:06 TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE TOO. 13:34:08 I HAD A SCHOOL IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THAT IT SET UP A 13:34:11 PROGRAM FOR Ph.D.s IN MATH AND SCIENCE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, 13:34:16 AND THE REASON THEY HAD SET IT UP IS BECAUSE WE ONLY HAD LESS 13:34:21 THAN 1% OF THE Ph.D.s, DOCTOR, IN SCIENCE AND MATH GO TO 13:34:27 AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE COMPETING IN A 13:34:30 GLOBAL ECONOMY -- WHEN WE'RE NOT JUST COMPETING AGAINST FOLKS IN 13:34:36 NORTH CAROLINA OR FLORIDA BUT IN CHINA AND INDIA AND WE NEED MATH 13:34:40 AND SCIENCE MAJORS, THIS UNIVERSITY THOUGHT THAT THIS 13:34:43 MIGHT BE A NICE THING TO DO, AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WROTE 13:34:46 THEM A LETTER SAYING WE ARE GOING TO THREATEN TO SUE YOU FOR 13:34:50 REVERSE DISCRIMINATION UNLESS YOU CEASE THIS PROGRAM, AND IT 13:34:56 REMINDS US THAT WE STILL GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO, AND THAT THE 13:35:02 BASIC ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS, THE 13:35:07 INJUSTICE THAT STILL EXISTS WITHIN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 13:35:11 SYSTEM, THE DISPARITY IN TERMS OF HOW PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN 13:35:17 THIS COUNTRY CONTINUES. IT HAS GOTTEN BETTER, AND WE 13:35:21 SHOULD NEVER DENY THAT IT'S GOTTEN BETTER, BUT WE SHOULDN'T 13:35:25 FORGET THAT BETTER IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, THAT UNTIL WE'VE GOT 13:35:30 ABSOLUTE EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY IN TERMS OF PEOPLE BEING 13:35:33 TREATED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR COLOR OR THEIR GENDER THAT THAT 13:35:37 IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON AND THE 13:35:42 JOSHUA GENERATION HAS A SIGNIFICANT TASK IN MAKING THAT 13:35:45 HAPPEN. THIRD THING, WE'VE GOT TO 13:35:51 RECOGNIZE THAT WE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, BUT WE'VE STILL 13:35:55 GOT A LOT OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH. 13:35:59 WE'VE GOT 46 -- 46 MILLION PEOPLE UNINSURED IN THIS COUNTRY 13:36:06 DESPITE SPENDING MORE MONEY ON HEALTH CARE THAN ANY NATION ON 13:36:08 EARTH. MAKES NO SENSE. 13:36:13 AS CONSEQUENCE WE'VE GOT WHAT'S KNOWN AS A HEALTH CARE DISPARITY 13:36:19 IN THIS NATION BECAUSE MANY OF THE UNINSURED ARE 13:36:23 AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR LATINO. LIFE EXPECTANCY IS LOWER, ALMOST 13:36:27 EVERY DISEASE IS HIGHER WITHIN MINORITY COMMUNITIES. 13:36:32 THE HEALTH CARE GAME. BLACKS ARE LESS LIKELY IN THEIR 13:36:35 SCHOOLS TO HAVE ADEQUATE FUNDING. 13:36:39 WE HAVE LESS QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:43 WE HAVE FEWER TEXTBOOKS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:47 WE GOT IN SOME SCHOOLS RATS OUTNUMBERING COMPUTERS. 13:36:52 THAT'S CALLED THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:36:55 YOU GOT A HEALTH CARE GAP. YOU'VE GOT AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:37:02 YOU'VE GOT KATRINA STILL UNDONE. WENT DUNN TO NEW ORLEANS THREE 13:37:11 WEEKS AGO. STILL LOOKS BOMBED OUT. 13:37:13 STILL NOT REBUILT. WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED, THE FEDERAL 13:37:19 GOVERNMENT HAS A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF GRANTS TO HELP REBUILD. 13:37:23 THEY WAIVED ANY REQUIREMENT THAT MANHATTAN WOULD HAVE TO PAY 10% 13:37:27 OF THE COST OF REBUILDING. WHEN HURRICANE FLORIDA -- 13:37:32 HURRICANE ANDREWS HAPPENED IN FLORIDA, 10% REQUIREMENT, THEY 13:37:36 WAIVED IT BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT SOME DISASTERS 13:37:39 ARE SO DEVASTATING THAT WE CAN'T EXPECT A COMMUNITY TO REBUILD. 13:37:46 NEW ORLEANS, THE LARGEST NATURAL CATASTROPHE IN OUR HISTORY, THE 13:37:52 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS, WHERE IS YOUR 10%? 13:37:58 THERE'S AN EMPATHY GAP. THERE'S A GAP IN TERMS OF 13:38:04 SYMPATHIZING FOR THOSE FOLKS IN NEW ORLEANS AS BAD AS 13:38:07 SYMPATHIZING WITH FOLKS ELSEWHERE. 13:38:09 IT'S NOT A GAP THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FELT BECAUSE WE SAW HOW 13:38:13 THEY RESPONDED. BUT SOMEHOW OUR GOVERNMENT 13:38:17 DIDN'T RESPOND WITH THAT SAME SENSE OF COMPASSION AND THAT 13:38:21 SAME SENSE OF KINDNESS. AND HERE'S THE WORST PART, THE 13:38:27 TRAGEDY IN NEW ORLEANS HAPPENED WELL BEFORE THE HURRICANE 13:38:32 STRUCK. BECAUSE MANY OF THOSE 13:38:34 COMMUNITIES THERE WERE SO MANY YOUNG MEN IN PRISON, SO MANY 13:38:38 KIDS DROPPING OUT, SO LITTLE HOPE, A HOPE GAP, A HOPE GAP 13:38:42 THAT STILL PERVADES TOO MANY COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE 13:38:45 COUNTRY AND RIGHT HERE IN ALABAMA. 13:38:49 SO THE QUESTION IS THEN, WHAT ARE WE THE JOSHUA GENERATION 13:38:53 DOING TO CLOSE THOSE GAPS? ARE WE DOING EVERY SINGLE THING 13:38:58 THAT WE CAN DO IN CONGRESS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT EARLY 13:39:02 EDUCATION IS ADEQUATELY FUNDED AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE 13:39:06 RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE SO IF SOMEBODY WORKS EACH AND EVERY 13:39:10 DAY THEY CAN HAVE SOME DIGNITY AND RESPECT? 13:39:12 ARE WE ENSURING IF SOMEBODY LOSES A JOB THAT THEY'RE GETTING 13:39:16 RETRAINED AND THAT IF THEY'VE LOST THEIR HEALTH CARE AND THEIR 13:39:21 PENSION THAT SOMEBODY IS THERE TO HELP THEM GET BACK ON THEIR 13:39:24 FEET? ARE WE MAKING SURE WE'RE GIVING 13:39:25 A SECOND CHANCE TO THOSE WHO HAVE STRAYED AND GONE TO PRISON 13:39:29 BUT WANT TO START A NEW LIFE? GOVERNMENT ALONE CAN'T SOLVE ALL 13:39:37 THOSE PROBLEMS, BUT GOVERNMENT CAN HELP, AND IT'S THE 13:39:41 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE 13:39:48 A GOVERNMENT AS RESPONSIBLE AS THE NEED EXISTS ALL ACROSS 13:39:52 AMERICA BUT THAT BRINGS ME TO ONE OTHER POINT THOUGH, JOSHUA 13:39:56 GENERATION, AND THAT IS THIS, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ENOUGH 13:40:01 JUST TO ASK WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR US, IT'S IMPORTANT 13:40:05 FOR US TO ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OURSELVES. 13:40:10 YET ONE OF THE SIGNATURE ASPECTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS 13:40:15 THE DEGREE OF DISCIPLINE AND FORTITUDE THAT WAS INSTILLED IN 13:40:21 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED. IMAGINE YOUNG PEOPLE, 16, 17, 13:40:29 20, 21 BACK STRAIGHT, EYES CLEAR, SUIT AND TIE SITTING DOWN 13:40:37 AT A LUNCH COUNTER KNOW BE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SPILL MILK 13:40:40 ON YOU BUT YOU HAVE THE DISCIPLINE TO UNDERSTAND THAT 13:40:43 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RETALIATE BECAUSE IN SHOWING THE WORLD HOW 13:40:48 DISCIPLINED WE WERE AS A PEOPLE, WE WERE ABLE TO WIN OVER THE 13:40:53 CONSCIENCE OF A NATION. I CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN THAT WE 13:41:00 HAVE INSTILLED THAT SAME SENSE OF MORAL CLARITY AND PURPOSE IN 13:41:05 THIS GENERATION. BISHOP, SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE 13:41:08 WE'VE LOST IT A LITTLE BIT. YOU KNOW, I'M FIGHTING TO MAKE 13:41:14 SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE ADEQUATELY FUNDED. 13:41:16 ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE HAVE INEQUITIES IN HOW SCHOOLS ARE 13:41:20 FUNDED BECAUSE IT'S RELIED ON PROPERTY TAXES AND PEOPLE WHO 13:41:23 HAPPEN TO BE BORN IN WEALTHY DISTRICTS, SOMEHOW THEY GET 13:41:28 BETTER SCHOOLS THAN FOLKS WHO ARE BORN IN POOR DISTRICTS AND 13:41:32 THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. 13:41:34 THAT'S NOT THE AMERICAN WAY, BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, EVEN AS I FIGHT 13:41:38 ON BEHALF OF MORE EDUCATION FUNDING, MORE EQUITY, I HAVE TO 13:41:42 ALSO SAY THAT IF PARENTS DON'T TURN OFF THE TELEVISION SET WHEN 13:41:47 THE CHILD COMES HOME FROM SCHOOL, AND MAKE SURE THEY SIT 13:41:52 DOWN AND DO THEIR HOMEWORK AND GO TALK TO THE TEACHERS AND FIND 13:41:56 OUT HOW THEY'RE DOING AND IF WE DON'T START INSTILLING A SENSE 13:41:59 IN OUR YOUNG CHILDREN, THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED 13:42:04 ABOUT IN EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, I DON'T KNOW WHO 13:42:07 CAUGHT THEM THAT READING AND WRITING AND CONJUGATING YOUR 13:42:11 VERBS WAS ACTING WHITE, WE'VE GOT TO GET OVER THAT MENTALITY. 13:42:14 WE'VE GOT TO DO FOR OURSEOURSEL. THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE MOSES 13:42:19 GENERATION TEACHES US, NOT SAYING TO OURSELVES WE CAN'T DO 13:42:23 SOMETHING BUT TELLING OURSELVES THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE. 13:42:27 WE CAN DO THAT. WE'VE GOT POWER IN OUR HANDS. 13:42:36 FOLKS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR GOVERNMENT. 13:42:39 I UNDERSTAND THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE COMPLAINING ABOUT. 13:42:45 I'M IN WASHINGTON. I SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 13:42:48 I SEE THOSE POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES HAVE SNUCK BACK 13:42:52 IN THERE. THAT THEY'RE WRITING THE ENERGY 13:42:55 BILLS AND THE DRUG LAWS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT. 13:42:58 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, I ALSO KNOW THAT IF COUSIN POOKIE WOULD 13:43:05 VOTE, IF UNCLE JETHRO WOULD GET OFF THE COUCH AND STOP WATCHING 13:43:12 "SPORTSCENTER" AND GO REGISTER SOME FOLKS AND GO TO THE POLLS, 13:43:15 WE MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF POLITICS. 13:43:18 THAT'S WHAT THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US. 13:43:23 KICK OFF YOUR BEDROOM SLIPPERS, PUT ON YOUR MARCHING SHOES, GO 13:43:28 DO SOME POLITICS, CHANGE THIS COUNTRY. 13:43:30 THAT'S WHAT THEY TEACH US. WE'VE GOT TOO MANY CHILDREN IN 13:43:39 POVERTY IN THIS COUNTRY, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ASHAMED. 13:43:43 BUT DON'T TELL ME EARTH DOESN'T HAVE A LITTLE TO DO WITH THE 13:43:46 FACT THAT WE GOT TOO MANY DADDIES NOT ACTING LIKE DADDIES. 13:43:53 I THINK THAT -- THINK THAT FATHERHOOD ENDS AT CONCEPTION, I 13:43:59 KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE MY FATHER WASN'T AROUND 13:44:02 WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND I STRUGGLED. 13:44:07 THOSE OF YOU WHO READ MY BOOK KNOW. 13:44:09 I WENT THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT TIMES. 13:44:11 I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A STRONG MALE FIGURE 13:44:15 IN THE HOUSE, WHICH IS WHY THE HARDEST THING ABOUT ME BEING IN 13:44:19 POLITICS SOMETIMES IS NOT BEING HOME AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE AND I'M 13:44:22 JUST BLESSED THAT I'VE GOT SUCH A WONDERFUL WIFE AT HOME TO HOLD 13:44:26 THINGS TOGETHER, BUT DON'T TELL ME THAT WE CAN'T DO BETTER BY 13:44:36 OUR CHILDREN, THAT WE CAN'T TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE 13:44:40 WE'RE INSTILLING IN THEM THE VALUES AND THE IDEAS THAT THE 13:44:43 MOSES GENERATION TAUGHT US ABOUT SACRIFICE AND DIGNITY AND 13:44:47 HONESTY AND HARD WORK AND DISCIPLINE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. 13:44:51 THAT COMES FROM US. WE'VE GOT TO TRANSMIT THAT TO 13:44:56 THE NEXT GENERATION AND I GUESS THE POINT THAT I'M MAKE 13:44:58 SOMETHING THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WASN'T JUST A FIGHT 13:45:03 AGAINST THE OPPRESSOR, IT WAS ALSO A FIGHT AGAINST THE 13:45:06 OPPRESSOR IN EACH OF US. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S EASY TO 13:45:12 JUST POINT AT SOMEBODY ELSE AND SAY, IT'S THERE THEIR FAULT BUT 13:45:17 OPPRESSION HAS A WAY OF CREEPING INTO YOU, REVEREND. 13:45:19 IT HAS A WAY OF STUNTING YOURSELF. 13:45:23 YOU START TELLING YOURSELF, BISHOP, I CAN'T DO SOMETHING. 13:45:27 I CAN'T READ, I CAN'T -- I CAN'T GO TO COLLEGE. 13:45:30 I CAN'T START A BUSINESS. I CAN'T RUN FOR CONGRESS. 13:45:33 I CAN'T RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, PEOPLE START TELLING YOU CAN'T 13:45:38 DO SOMETHING, AFTER A WHILE, YOU TART BELIEVING IT. 13:45:44 AND PART OF WHAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS ABOUT WAS 13:45:47 RECOGNIZING THAT WE HAVE TO TRANSFORM OURSELVES IN ORDER TO 13:45:50 TRANSFORM THE WORLD. MAHATMA GANDHI, THE GREAT HERO 13:45:57 OF DR. KING AND THE PERSON WHO HELPED CREATE THE NONVIOLENT 13:46:03 MOVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD, HE ONCE SAID THAT "YOU CAN'T CHANGE 13:46:07 THE WORLD IF YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED. 13:46:10 IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, THE CHANGE HAS TO HAPPEN WITH 13:46:13 YOU FIRST." AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE 13:46:19 GREATEST AND MOST HONORABLE OF GENERATIONS HAS TAUGHT US. 13:46:26 BUT THE FINAL THING THAT I THINK THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US 13:46:29 IS TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE DO WHAT WE DO BECAUSE GOD IS 13:46:35 WITH US. YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES WAS FIRST 13:46:41 CALLED TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT OF THE PROMISED LAND, HE SAID, "I DON'T 13:46:45 THINK I CAN DO IT, LORD. I DON'T SPEAK LIKE REVEREND 13:46:49 LOWERY. I DON'T -- I DON'T FEEL BRAVE 13:46:53 AND COURAGEOUS" AND THE LORD SAID "I WILL BE WITH YOU. 13:46:59 THROW DOWN THAT ROD, PICK IT BACK UP. 13:47:03 I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO." 13:47:06 AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:47:14 JOSHUA SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M SCARED. 13:47:17 I'M NOT SURE THAT I AM UP TO THE CHALLENGE, AND THE LORD SAID TO 13:47:25 HIM, EVERY PLACE THAT THE SOUL OF YOUR FOOT WILL TREAD UPON, I 13:47:31 HAVE GIVEN YOU. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I 13:47:36 AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:47:43 THAT'S A PRAYER FOR A JOURNEY, A PRAYER THAT KEPT A WOMAN IN HER 13:47:47 SEAT WHEN THE BUS DRIVER TOLD HER TO GET UP, A PRAYER THAT LED 13:47:50 NINE CHILDREN THROUGH THE DOORS OF A LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL, A 13:47:53 PRAYER THAT CARRIED OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER A BRIDGE RIGHT 13:47:57 HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE WHEN 13:48:02 YOU SEE ROW AND ROW OF STATE TROOPER FACING YOU, YOU SEE THE 13:48:07 HORSES AND THE TEAR GAS, HOW ELSE CAN YOU WALK TOWARDS THEM 13:48:10 UNARMED AND UNAFRAID? WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU AND 13:48:13 START BEATING YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR NEIGHBORS HOW ELSE CAN YOU 13:48:17 SIMPLY KNEEL DOWN, BOW YOUR HEAD AND ASK THE LORD FOR SALVATION 13:48:20 WHEN YOU SEE HEADS GASHED OPEN AND EYES BURNING AND LITTLE 13:48:24 CHILDREN LYING HURT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WHEN YOU'RE JOHN 13:48:28 LEWIS AND YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE ON 13:48:31 SUNDAY HOW DO YOU WAKE UP ON MONDAY AND KEEP ON MARCHING? 13:48:34 BE STRONG, AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. 13:48:41 WE'VE COME A LONG WAY IN THIS JOURNEY, BUT WE STILL HAVE A 13:48:46 LONG WAY TO TRAVEL. WE TRAVEL BECAUSE GOD WAS WITH 13:48:52 US. IT'S NOT HOW FAR WE'VE COME THIS 13:48:55 FAR ON OUR JOURNEY. THAT BRIDGE OUTSIDE WAS CROSSED 13:48:58 BY BLACKS AND WHITES, NORTHERNERS AND SOUTHERNERS, 13:49:01 TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN, SHOPKEEPERS AND JANITORS, A 13:49:04 BELOVED COMMUNITY OF GOD'S CHILDREN WILLING TO TAKE THOSE 13:49:07 STEPS TOGETHER. BUT IT WAS LEFT TO THE JOSHUAS 13:49:12 TO FINISH THE JOURNEY MOSES HAD BEGUN AND TODAY WE'RE CALLED TO 13:49:15 BE THE JOSHUAS OF OUR TIME, TO BE THE GENERATION THAT FINDS OUR 13:49:19 WAY ACROSS THIS RIVER, THERE WILL BE DAYS WHEN THE WATER 13:49:23 SEEMS WIDE AND THE JOURNEY TOO FAR, BUT IN THOSE MOMENTS WE 13:49:27 MUST REMEMBER THAT THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, THERE HAS BEEN A 13:49:31 RUNNING THREAD OF IDEALS THAT HAVE GUIDED OUR TRAVELS AND 13:49:35 PUSHED US FORWARD EVEN WHEN THEY'RE JUST BEYOND OUR REACH, 13:49:40 LIBERTY IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY, EQUALITY IN THE FACE OF BITTER 13:49:44 INJUSTICE, OPPORTUNITY WHERE THERE WAS NONE AND HOPE OVER THE 13:49:46 MOST CRUSHING DE SPARE, THOSE IDEALS, THOSE VALUES, THEY 13:49:50 BECKON US STILL, AND WHEN WE HAVE OUR DOUBTS AND OUR FEARS, 13:49:53 JUST LIKE JOSHUA DID, WHEN THE ROAD LOOKS TOO LONG AND IT SEEMS 13:49:57 LIKE WE MAY LOSE OUR WAY, REMEMBER WHAT THESE PEOPLE DID 13:50:01 ON THAT BRIDGE, KEEPING YOUR H 13:50:07 HEART, THE PRAYER OF THAT JOURNEY, THE PRAYER THAT GOD 13:50:09 GAVE TO JOSHUA, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF 13:50:16 INJUSTICE, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF PREJUDICE 13:50:21 AND HATRED, IN THE FACE OF JOBLESSNESS AND HELPLESSNESS AND 13:50:28 HOPELESSNESS, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:50:30 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED TODAY IN THE FACE 13:50:34 OF OUR DOUBTS AND FEARS, IN THE FACE OF SKEPTICISM, IN THE FACE 13:50:39 OF CYNICISM, IN THE FACE OF A MIGHTY RIVER, BE STRONG AND HAVE 13:50:44 COURAGE AND LET US CROSS OVER THAT PROMISED LAND TOGETHER. 13:50:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY. GOD BLESS YOU. END SENATOR BARACK OBAMA

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[VOTE 2008 / OBAMA AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA] [SELMA, ALA USA] FTG OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-ILL) AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA 12:28:32 Obama standing 12:29:01 Obama sits back down 12:41:55 Obama receiving a standing ovation 12:42:08 Obama smiling and laughing 12:46:07 Obama standing behind preacher 12:46:21 Obama clapping and sitting back down 12:52:41 Obama clapping 13:16:19 I want to start by saying I want to thank him for his support . 13:17:14 Somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage . 13:17:39 To all the distinguished guests and clergy. I'm not sure I'm going to thank the . because he stole the show . nervous about following so many great clergy men .. 13:18:31 Thanks you very much for letting me speak . after I announced I was running for president of the united states . drawing from script 13:19:24 I acknowledge there is a certain amount of presumptuousness with this . his son is now preacher at my church . I got a letter giving me encouragement telling me how proud he was and reminded me to stay true to my ideals . tell them to look at the story of Joshua . 13:20:37 So I just want to talk a little bit about . we are in the presence today of a lot of Moses' . people who battle on behalf of all of America . endured taunts and torments . gave full measure of their devotion . who said that some are atop and some are at the bottom and that's how it will always be . 13:22:53 They wondered through a desert and knowing that god was with them . and it's because they marched that the next generation has not been as bloodied . it's because they marched that I stand here today . 13:23:54 Because not only is my career the result of the men and women we honor here today, my very existence might not have happened . you don't understand, my grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya . 13:25:24 Yet something happened here in Selma Alabama . 13:26:25 Worried folks in the white house, we're fighting communism . the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift . this young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets . 13:27:46 Don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma Alabama . I'm here because ya'll sacrificed or me . I stand on your shoulders . 13:32:36 Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence, you have to fill that . second thing is the principals of equality is not a one sided thing . 13:33:43 They have basically spent all their time worrying about affirmative action . reminds us we still have a lot work to do . we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough . that is something that we have got to continue to work on 13:35:40 Third thing, we fought for civil rights, but we still have a lot of economic rights to work for . we've got what's know as a health care disparity . life expectancy is lower in the minorities . we have fewer teachers and text books in the schools . health care gap and achievement gap 13:37:00 New Orleans still looks bombed out . when 9-11 happened, they waived any requirement . because they understood . federal government says where's your 10%. There's an empathy gap . 13:38:02 Not a gap the American people felt . the government was the problem . because many of those communities . hope gap . 13:38:40 The question is, what are we the Joshua generation doing to close the gap .. Are we ensuring . and giving a second chance 13:39:29 Government can help . make sure the government is responsive . it's enough to ask with the government can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves . 13:41:24 I tell you what, even as I fight for more education funding . if parents don't turn off the television set . it we don't instill a sense in our young children . we've got to get over that mentality . 13:42:14 Telling ourselves we can achieve . we can do that. We can achieve. 13:42:37 I'm in Washington, I see what's going on . I also know that cousin poky wasn't voting . kick off your marching slippers, put on your marching shoes . 13:43:44 They think that fatherhood ends at conception . I went through some difficult times . 13:44:53 It wasn't just a fight against the oppressor, it was a fight against the oppressor in all of us . it has a way of stunting yourself . part of what the civil rights movement was realizing you have to change more then just ourselves . 13:46:04 That is something that the greatest and the most honorable of generations has taught us . we do what we do because God is with us . 13:46:56 The same thing happened with the Joshua generation . not sure I can do this . be strong and have courage . that's a prayer for a journey . 13:48:31 We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to go . that bridge was crossed . and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our generation .. Liberty in the face of injustice . 13:49:56 Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey . be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice . hopelessness 13:50:29 In the face of a mighty river, be strong and have courage and lets cross that bridge together, thank you 13:50:55 Obama embracing various members of the clergy on stage 13:51:37 Obama sits back down 13:56:42 Obama head down in prayer and song SEGMENT [1] 2007/03/04 ************************************************ SENATOR BARACK OBAMA SPEAKING AT THE BROWN CHAPEL IN SELMA, ALABAMA 13:16:08 SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: I MUST BEGIN BECAUSE AT THE 13:16:16 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS MORNING, I WAS SAVING HIM FOR LAST AND THE 13:16:20 LIST OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WAS SO LONG, I LEFT HIM OUT AFTER THAT 13:16:25 INTRODUCTION, SO I'M GOING TO START BY SAYING HOW MUCH I 13:16:29 APPRECIATE THE FRIENDSHIP AND THE SUPPORT AND THE OUTSTANDING 13:16:33 WORK THAT HE DOES EACH AND EVERY DAY, NOT JUST IN CAPITOL HILL 13:16:39 BUT ALSO BACK HERE IN THE DISTRICT, PLEASE GIVE A WARM 13:16:42 ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN ARTUR DAVIS. 13:16:45 [ APPLAUSE ] IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE, 13:16:58 REVEREND JACKSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TO THE FAMILY OF BROWN 13:17:04 AM & E AND BISHOP KIRKLAND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL 13:17:09 MESSAGE AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE OF THE 13:17:16 GREAT HEROS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND AMERICAN LIFE, SOMEBODY WHO 13:17:29 CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF DECENCY AND COURAGE, SOMEBODY WHO I HAVE 13:17:35 ADMIRED ALL MY LIFE AND WERE IT NOT FOR HIM I'M NOT SURE I WOULD 13:17:41 BE HERE TODAY, CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, I'M THANKFUL TO HIM. 13:17:44 [ APPLAUSE ] TO ALL THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS 13:17:51 AND CLERGY, I'M NOT SURE I'M GOING TO THANK REVEREND LOWERY 13:17:56 BECAUSE HE STOLE THE SHOW. [ LAUGHTER ] 13:18:06 I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER I KNOW WE'VE GOT C.T. VIVIAN AND ALL 13:18:11 THIS. WHEN YOU HAVE TO SPEAK IN FRONT 13:18:12 OF SOMEBODY WHO MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID WAS THE GREATEST 13:18:15 PREACHER HE EVER HEARD THEN YOU GOT SOME PROBLEMS, AND I'M A 13:18:19 LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT FOLLOWING SO MANY GREAT PREACHERS. 13:18:28 BUT I AM HOPING THAT THE SPIRIT MOVES ME. 13:18:31 TO ALL MY CONGRESSIONAL COLLEAGUES AND OTHER ELECTED 13:18:34 OFFICIALS WERE HERE, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO HAVE GIVEN ME SUCH A 13:18:38 WARM WELCOME, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TO 13:18:42 YOU HERE TODAY. YOU KNOW, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, 13:18:50 AFTER I HAD ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF 13:18:55 THE UNITED STATES, I STOOD IN FRONT OF THE OLD STATE CAPITOL 13:18:59 IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DELIVERED HIS 13:19:05 SPEECH DECLARING DASH DRAWING FROM SCRIPTURE THAT A HOUSE 13:19:09 DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF COULD NOT STAND, AND I STOOD AND I 13:19:13 ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY, AND THERE WERE A 13:19:17 LOT OF COMMENTATORS AS THEY ARE PRONE TO DO WHO QUESTIONED THE 13:19:24 AUDACITY OF A YOUNG MAN LIKE MYSELF, HADN'T BEEN IN 13:19:29 WASHINGTON TOO LONG AND I ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE'S A 13:19:34 CERTAIN PRESUMPTUOUSNESS ABOUT THIS, BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM A 13:19:40 FRIEND OF SOME OF YOURS NAMED REVEREND OTIS MALSH JR. IN 13:19:49 CLEVELAND, ILLINOIS, AND HIS SON, OTIS MOSS III IS NOW 13:19:54 PASTORING AT MY CHURCH, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST AND I 13:19:59 MUST SEND GREETINGS FROM OUR SENIOR PASTOR DR. INJURE MYA A. 13:20:05 WRIGHT JR., BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM REVEREND OTIS MOSS JR. 13:20:10 GIVING ME ENCOURAGEMENT AND SAYING HOW PROUD HE WAS THAT I 13:20:15 HAD ANNOUNCED, AND ENCOURAGING ME TO STAY TRUE TO MY IDEALS AND 13:20:23 MY VALUES AND NOT TO BE FEARFUL AND HE SAID IF THERE'S SOME 13:20:29 FOLKS OUT THERE WHO ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT YOU 13:20:34 SHOULD RUN, JUST TELL THEM TO LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOSHUA. 13:20:43 BECAUSE YOU'RE PART OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:20:47 AND SO I JUST WANT TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT MOSES AND AARON AND 13:20:53 JOSHUA. BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE 13:21:00 TODAY OF A LOT OF MOSESS. WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE TODAY OF 13:21:08 GIANTS WHOSE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON, PEOPLE WHO BATTLED ON 13:21:17 BEHALF, NOT JUST OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, BUT ON BEHALF 13:21:21 OF ALL OF AMERICA, THAT BATTLED FOR AMERICA'S SOUL, THAT SHED 13:21:31 BLOOD, THAT ENDURED TAUNTS AND TORMENT AND IN SOME CASES GAVE 13:21:37 THE FULL MEASURE OF THEIR DEVOTION. 13:21:41 LIKE MOSES, THEY CHALLENGED FARROW, THE PRINCES AND POWERS, 13:21:51 WHO SAID THAT SOME ARE ATOP AND OTHERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM, AND 13:21:57 THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE. 13:22:00 THERE WERE PEOPLE LIKE ANNA COOPER AND MARIE FOSTER AND 13:22:05 JIMMY LEE JACKSON AND MAURICE OLETT, C.T. VIVIAN, REVEREND 13:22:13 LOWERY, JOHN LEWIS, WHO SAID WE CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, 13:22:19 THAT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE FOR US TOO. 13:22:23 THAT GOD HAS MADE US IN HIS IMAGE, AND THAT WE REJECT THE 13:22:28 NOTION THAT WE WILL FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES BE CONFINED TO A 13:22:33 STATION OF INFERIORITY, THAT WE CAN ASPIRE TO THE HIGHEST OF 13:22:39 HEIGHTS THAT OUR TALENTS CAN BE EXPRESSED TO THEIR FULLEST. 13:22:45 AND SO BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY ENDURED, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY 13:22:50 MARCHED, THEY LED A PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:22:56 THEY TOOK THEM ACROSS A SEA THAT FOLKS THOUGHT COULD NOT BE 13:23:02 PARTED. THEY WANDERED THROUGH A DESERT, 13:23:06 BUT ALWAYS KNOWING THAT GOD WAS WITH THEM AND THAT IF THEY 13:23:11 MAINTAINED THAT TRUST IN GOD, THAT THEY WOULD BE ALL RIGHT. 13:23:17 AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT THE NEXT GENERATION HASN'T 13:23:25 BEEN BLOODED SO MUCH. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT 13:23:28 WE ELECTED COUNCILMEN AND CONGRESSMEN. 13:23:32 IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT WE HAVE ARTUR DAVIS AND KEITH 13:23:37 ELLISON. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I 13:23:39 GOT THE KIND OF EDUCATION I GOT, THAT I GOT A LAW DEGREE AND A 13:23:45 SEAT IN THE ILLINOIS SENATE AND ULTIMATELY IN THE UNITED STATES 13:23:48 SENATE IS BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU HERE 13:23:50 TODAY. AND I WAS MENTIONING AT THE 13:24:02 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS IMPORTANT, MY DEBT IS EVEN GREATER THAN 13:24:05 THAT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS MY CAREER THE RESULT OF THE WORK OF 13:24:13 THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WE HONOR HERE TODAY, MY VERY EXISTENCE 13:24:21 MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SOME OF THE 13:24:24 FOLKS HERE TODAY. I MENTIONED AT THE UNITY 13:24:28 BREAKFAST THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING, WELL, YOU 13:24:31 KNOW, YOUR FATHER WAS FROM AFRICA, YOUR MOTHER, SHE'S A 13:24:35 WHITE WOMAN FROM KANSAS, I'M NOT SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME 13:24:39 EXPERIENCE, AND I TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT. 13:24:41 YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU SEE, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A 13:24:45 COOK TO THE BRITISH IN KENYA, GREW UP IN A SMALL VILLAGE, AND 13:24:52 ALL HIS LIFE THAT'S ALL HE WAS WAS A COOK AND A HOUSEBOY AND 13:24:56 THAT'S WHAT THEY CALLED HIM EVEN WHEN HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD THEY 13:25:00 CALLED HIM A HOUSEBOY. WOULDN'T CALL HIM BY HIS LAST 13:25:05 NAME. CALLED HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME. 13:25:08 SOUND FAMILIAR? AND HE HAD TO CARRY A PASSBOOK 13:25:14 AROUND, BECAUSE AFRICANS IN THEIR OWN LAND IN THEIR OWN 13:25:17 COUNTRY AT THAT TIME BECAUSE IT WAS A BRITISH COLONY COULD NOT 13:25:22 MOVE ABOUT FREELY. THEY COULD ONLY GO WHERE THEY 13:25:25 WERE TOLD TO G THEY COULD ONLY WORK WHERE THEY WERE TOLD TO 13:25:31 WORK, AND YET SOMETHING HAPPENED BACK HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA, 13:25:37 SOMETHING HAPPENED IN BIRMINGHAM THAT SENT OUT WHAT BOBBY KENNEDY 13:25:41 CALLED RIPPLES OF HOPE ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 13:25:44 SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN A BUNCH OF WOMEN DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO 13:25:49 WALK INSTEAD OF RIDE THE BUS AFTER A LONG DAY OF DOING 13:25:53 SOMEBODY ELSE'S LAUNDRY AND LOOKING AFTER SOMEBODY ELSE'S 13:25:55 CHILDREN WHEN MEN WHO HAD Ph.D.s WERE WORKING AS PORTERS DECIDED 13:26:01 THAT'S ENOUGH AND WE'RE GOING TO STAND UP DESPITE THE RISKS FOR 13:26:04 OUR DIGNITY AND I RESPECT THAT CENTER SHOUT ACROSS OCEANS SO 13:26:10 THAT MY GRANDFATHER BEGAN TO IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR 13:26:14 HIS SON AND HIS SON WHO GREW UP HERDING GOATS IN A SMALL VILLAGE 13:26:19 IN AFRICA COULD SUDDENLY SET HIS SIGHTS A LITTLE HIGHER AND 13:26:24 SUDDENLY BELIEVE THAT MAYBE A BLACK MAN IN THIS WORLD HAD A 13:26:29 CHANCE, AND WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA AND BIRMINGHAM 13:26:33 ALSO STIRRED THE CONSCIENCE OF A NATION AND IT WORRIED FOLKS IN 13:26:38 THE WHITE HOUSE WHO SAID WE'RE BATTLING COMMUNISM, HOW ARE WE 13:26:41 GOING TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD IF 13:26:44 RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JOHN, WE'RE NOT OBSERVING THE 13:26:49 IDEALS THAT ARE SET FORTH IN OUR CONSTITUTION? 13:26:52 WE MIGHT BE ACCUSED OF BEING HYPOCRITES SO THE KENNEDYS 13:26:56 DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO DO AN AIRLIFT. 13:26:59 WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT TO AFRICA AND WE'RE GOING TO START 13:27:02 BRINGING YOUNG AFRICANS OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND BRING THEM 13:27:05 SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN WHAT A WONDERFUL 13:27:09 COUNTRY AMERICA IS AND THIS YOUNG MAN NAMED BARACK OBAMA GOT 13:27:13 ONE OF THOSE TICKETS AND CAME OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND HE MET 13:27:20 THIS WOMAN, WHOSE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER HAD 13:27:25 OWNED SLAVES, BUT SHE HAD A DIFFERENT IDEA. 13:27:29 THERE'S SOME GOOD CRAZINESS GOING ON BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AT 13:27:32 EACH OTHER AND THEY DECIDED, WE KNOW THAT IN THE WORLD AS IT HAS 13:27:36 BEEN IT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET TOGETHER AND HAVE 13:27:39 A CHILD, BUT SOMETHING IS STIRRING ACROSS THE COUNTRY 13:27:42 BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA, BECAUSE SOME 13:27:46 FOLKS ARE WILLING TO MARCH ACROSS THE BRIDGE. 13:27:49 AND SO THEY GOT TOGETHER AND BARACK OBAMA JR. WAS BORN. 13:27:55 SO DON'T TELL ME I DON'T HAVE A CLAIM ON SELMA, ALABAMA. 13:28:00 DON'T TELL ME I'M NOT COMING HOME WHEN I COME TO SELMA, 13:28:03 ALABAMA. I'M HERE BECAUSE SOMEBODY 13:28:06 MARCHED FOR OUR FREEDOM. I'M HERE BECAUSE Y'ALL 13:28:11 SACRIFICED FOR ME. I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF 13:28:19 THIS. I THANK THE MOSES GENERATION. 13:28:27 BUT WE GOT TO REMEMBER NOW THAT JOSHUA STILL HAD A JOB TO DO. 13:28:36 AS GREAT AS MOSES WAS, DESPITE ALL THAT HE DID, LEADING A 13:28:44 PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE, HE DIDN'T CROSS OVER THE RIVER TO SEE THE 13:28:51 PROMISED LAND. GOD TOLD HIM YOUR JOB IS DONE, 13:28:55 YOU'LL SEE IT. YOU'LL BE AT THE MOUNTAINTOP, 13:28:58 AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT I'VE PROMISED, WHAT I PROMISED TO 13:29:03 ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB AND I PROMISED TO YOU, YOU CAN SEE 13:29:07 THAT I WILL FULFILL THAT PROMISE. 13:29:10 BUT YOU WON'T GO THERE. WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE IT TO THE 13:29:14 JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS. 13:29:18 THERE'S STILL SOME BATTLES HA NEED TO BE FOUGHT, SOME RIVERS 13:29:21 THAT NEED TO BE CROSSED. LIKE MOSES, THE TASK WAS PASSED 13:29:27 ON TO THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AS DESERVING, MIGHT NOT 13:29:33 HAVE BEEN AS COURAGEOUS FIND THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF THE RISKS 13:29:37 THAT THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT 13:29:41 GRANDPARENTS HAD TAKEN, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY STILL DON'T 13:29:43 HAVE A BURDEN THAT THEY HAVE TO SHOULDER, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE 13:29:47 SOME RESPONSIBILITIES THE PREVIOUS GENERATION, THE MOSES 13:29:51 GENERATION POINTED THE WAY. THEY TOOK US 90% OF THE WAY 13:29:55 THERE, BUT WE STILL GOT THAT 10% IN ORDER TO CROSS OVER TO THE 13:30:00 OTHER SIDE. AND SO THE QUESTION, I GUESS, 13:30:05 THAT I HAVE TODAY IS WHAT'S CALLED OF US IN THIS JOSHUA 13:30:11 GENERATION? WHAT DO WE DO IN ORDER TO 13:30:13 FULFILL THAT LEGACY TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS AND THE DEBT 13:30:17 THAT WE OWE TO THOSE WHO ALLOWED US TO BE HERE TODAY? 13:30:22 NOW, I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVER FULLY REPAY THAT DEBT. 13:30:26 I THINK THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE LOOKING BACK, BUT THERE 13:30:33 ARE AT LEAST A FEW SUGGESTIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE IN TERMS OF 13:30:37 HOW WE MIGHT FULFILL THAT ENORMOUS LEGACY. 13:30:43 THE FIRST IS TO RECOGNIZE OUR HISTORY. 13:30:48 JOHN LEWIS TALKED ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY, BUT I WORRY 13:30:52 SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WE COME DOWN TO 13:30:57 MARCH EVERY YEAR ONCE A YEAR. WE OCCASIONALLY CELEBRATE THE 13:31:05 VARIOUS EVENTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 13:31:08 WE CELEBRATE DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY, BUT IT STRIKES ME THAT 13:31:12 UNDERSTANDING OUR HISTORY AND KNOWING WHAT IT MEANS IS AN 13:31:15 EVERYDAY ACTIVITY. YOU NOTICE WHEN MOSES SPOKE TO 13:31:23 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, TELLING THEM THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO BE 13:31:30 GOING WITH THEM, HE LAID OUT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND 13:31:34 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE SAID, BISHOP, WAS HE SAID, "KNOW YOUR 13:31:39 PAST. KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM. 13:31:41 KNOW HOW YOU WERE LED OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:31:45 KNOW HOW PHARAOH REFUSED TO LET YOU GO AND THAT GOD CAME DOWN 13:31:49 AND VISITED ALL MANNER OF PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE UNTIL FINALLY A 13:31:54 PEOPLE WERE FREED." MOSES TOLD THE JOSHUA 13:32:00 GENERATION, DON'T FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM, AND I WORRY 13:32:04 SOMETIMES THAT THE JOSHUA GENERATION IN ITS SUCCESS 13:32:08 FORGETS WHERE IT CAME FROM. THINKS IT DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE 13:32:12 AS MANY SACRIFICES, THINKS THAT THE VERY HEIGHT OF AMBITION IS 13:32:18 TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU CAN, TO DRIVE THE BIGGEST CAR 13:32:23 AND HAVE THE BIGGEST HOUSE AND WEAR A ROLEX WATCH AND GET YOUR 13:32:28 OWN PRIVATE JET, GET SOME OF THAT OPRAH MONEY, AND I THINK 13:32:37 THAT'S A GOOD THING. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH 13:32:40 MAKING MONEY BUT IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THEN YOU KNOW THAT 13:32:44 THERE'S A CERTAIN POVERTY OF AMBITION INVOLVED IN SIMPLY 13:32:50 STRIVING JUST FOR MONEY, MATERIALISM ALONE WILL NOT 13:32:58 FULFILL THE POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 13:33:01 YOU HAVE TO FILL THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 13:33:02 YOU HAVE TO FILL IT WITH THE GOLAN RULE. 13:33:05 YOU GOT TO FILL IT WITH THINKING ABOUT OTHERS, AND IF WE KNOW OUR 13:33:10 HISTORY, THEN WE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE HIGHEST MARK OF 13:33:16 SERVICE. SECOND THING THAT THE JOSHUA 13:33:19 GENERATION NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE PRINCIPLES OF 13:33:23 EQUALITY THAT WERE SET FORTH AND WERE BATTLED FOR HAVE TO BE 13:33:28 FOUGHT EACH AND EVERY DAY, IT IS NOT A ONE-TIME THING. 13:33:34 I WAS REMARKING AT THE UNITY BREAKFAST ON THE FACT THAT THE 13:33:40 SINGLE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONCERN THAT THIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 13:33:46 UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD WITH RESPECT TO 13:33:50 DISCRIMINATION HAS TO DO WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 13:33:53 THAT THEY HAVE BASICALLY SPENT ALL THEIR TIME WORRYING ABOUT 13:33:58 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE GIVEN A 13:34:01 LITTLE BREAK TO YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANICS 13:34:06 TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE TOO. 13:34:08 I HAD A SCHOOL IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THAT IT SET UP A 13:34:11 PROGRAM FOR Ph.D.s IN MATH AND SCIENCE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, 13:34:16 AND THE REASON THEY HAD SET IT UP IS BECAUSE WE ONLY HAD LESS 13:34:21 THAN 1% OF THE Ph.D.s, DOCTOR, IN SCIENCE AND MATH GO TO 13:34:27 AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE COMPETING IN A 13:34:30 GLOBAL ECONOMY -- WHEN WE'RE NOT JUST COMPETING AGAINST FOLKS IN 13:34:36 NORTH CAROLINA OR FLORIDA BUT IN CHINA AND INDIA AND WE NEED MATH 13:34:40 AND SCIENCE MAJORS, THIS UNIVERSITY THOUGHT THAT THIS 13:34:43 MIGHT BE A NICE THING TO DO, AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WROTE 13:34:46 THEM A LETTER SAYING WE ARE GOING TO THREATEN TO SUE YOU FOR 13:34:50 REVERSE DISCRIMINATION UNLESS YOU CEASE THIS PROGRAM, AND IT 13:34:56 REMINDS US THAT WE STILL GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO, AND THAT THE 13:35:02 BASIC ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS, THE 13:35:07 INJUSTICE THAT STILL EXISTS WITHIN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 13:35:11 SYSTEM, THE DISPARITY IN TERMS OF HOW PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN 13:35:17 THIS COUNTRY CONTINUES. IT HAS GOTTEN BETTER, AND WE 13:35:21 SHOULD NEVER DENY THAT IT'S GOTTEN BETTER, BUT WE SHOULDN'T 13:35:25 FORGET THAT BETTER IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, THAT UNTIL WE'VE GOT 13:35:30 ABSOLUTE EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY IN TERMS OF PEOPLE BEING 13:35:33 TREATED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR COLOR OR THEIR GENDER THAT THAT 13:35:37 IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON AND THE 13:35:42 JOSHUA GENERATION HAS A SIGNIFICANT TASK IN MAKING THAT 13:35:45 HAPPEN. THIRD THING, WE'VE GOT TO 13:35:51 RECOGNIZE THAT WE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, BUT WE'VE STILL 13:35:55 GOT A LOT OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH. 13:35:59 WE'VE GOT 46 -- 46 MILLION PEOPLE UNINSURED IN THIS COUNTRY 13:36:06 DESPITE SPENDING MORE MONEY ON HEALTH CARE THAN ANY NATION ON 13:36:08 EARTH. MAKES NO SENSE. 13:36:13 AS CONSEQUENCE WE'VE GOT WHAT'S KNOWN AS A HEALTH CARE DISPARITY 13:36:19 IN THIS NATION BECAUSE MANY OF THE UNINSURED ARE 13:36:23 AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR LATINO. LIFE EXPECTANCY IS LOWER, ALMOST 13:36:27 EVERY DISEASE IS HIGHER WITHIN MINORITY COMMUNITIES. 13:36:32 THE HEALTH CARE GAME. BLACKS ARE LESS LIKELY IN THEIR 13:36:35 SCHOOLS TO HAVE ADEQUATE FUNDING. 13:36:39 WE HAVE LESS QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:43 WE HAVE FEWER TEXTBOOKS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:47 WE GOT IN SOME SCHOOLS RATS OUTNUMBERING COMPUTERS. 13:36:52 THAT'S CALLED THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:36:55 YOU GOT A HEALTH CARE GAP. YOU'VE GOT AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:37:02 YOU'VE GOT KATRINA STILL UNDONE. WENT DUNN TO NEW ORLEANS THREE 13:37:11 WEEKS AGO. STILL LOOKS BOMBED OUT. 13:37:13 STILL NOT REBUILT. WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED, THE FEDERAL 13:37:19 GOVERNMENT HAS A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF GRANTS TO HELP REBUILD. 13:37:23 THEY WAIVED ANY REQUIREMENT THAT MANHATTAN WOULD HAVE TO PAY 10% 13:37:27 OF THE COST OF REBUILDING. WHEN HURRICANE FLORIDA -- 13:37:32 HURRICANE ANDREWS HAPPENED IN FLORIDA, 10% REQUIREMENT, THEY 13:37:36 WAIVED IT BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT SOME DISASTERS 13:37:39 ARE SO DEVASTATING THAT WE CAN'T EXPECT A COMMUNITY TO REBUILD. 13:37:46 NEW ORLEANS, THE LARGEST NATURAL CATASTROPHE IN OUR HISTORY, THE 13:37:52 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS, WHERE IS YOUR 10%? 13:37:58 THERE'S AN EMPATHY GAP. THERE'S A GAP IN TERMS OF 13:38:04 SYMPATHIZING FOR THOSE FOLKS IN NEW ORLEANS AS BAD AS 13:38:07 SYMPATHIZING WITH FOLKS ELSEWHERE. 13:38:09 IT'S NOT A GAP THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FELT BECAUSE WE SAW HOW 13:38:13 THEY RESPONDED. BUT SOMEHOW OUR GOVERNMENT 13:38:17 DIDN'T RESPOND WITH THAT SAME SENSE OF COMPASSION AND THAT 13:38:21 SAME SENSE OF KINDNESS. AND HERE'S THE WORST PART, THE 13:38:27 TRAGEDY IN NEW ORLEANS HAPPENED WELL BEFORE THE HURRICANE 13:38:32 STRUCK. BECAUSE MANY OF THOSE 13:38:34 COMMUNITIES THERE WERE SO MANY YOUNG MEN IN PRISON, SO MANY 13:38:38 KIDS DROPPING OUT, SO LITTLE HOPE, A HOPE GAP, A HOPE GAP 13:38:42 THAT STILL PERVADES TOO MANY COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE 13:38:45 COUNTRY AND RIGHT HERE IN ALABAMA. 13:38:49 SO THE QUESTION IS THEN, WHAT ARE WE THE JOSHUA GENERATION 13:38:53 DOING TO CLOSE THOSE GAPS? ARE WE DOING EVERY SINGLE THING 13:38:58 THAT WE CAN DO IN CONGRESS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT EARLY 13:39:02 EDUCATION IS ADEQUATELY FUNDED AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE 13:39:06 RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE SO IF SOMEBODY WORKS EACH AND EVERY 13:39:10 DAY THEY CAN HAVE SOME DIGNITY AND RESPECT? 13:39:12 ARE WE ENSURING IF SOMEBODY LOSES A JOB THAT THEY'RE GETTING 13:39:16 RETRAINED AND THAT IF THEY'VE LOST THEIR HEALTH CARE AND THEIR 13:39:21 PENSION THAT SOMEBODY IS THERE TO HELP THEM GET BACK ON THEIR 13:39:24 FEET? ARE WE MAKING SURE WE'RE GIVING 13:39:25 A SECOND CHANCE TO THOSE WHO HAVE STRAYED AND GONE TO PRISON 13:39:29 BUT WANT TO START A NEW LIFE? GOVERNMENT ALONE CAN'T SOLVE ALL 13:39:37 THOSE PROBLEMS, BUT GOVERNMENT CAN HELP, AND IT'S THE 13:39:41 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE 13:39:48 A GOVERNMENT AS RESPONSIBLE AS THE NEED EXISTS ALL ACROSS 13:39:52 AMERICA BUT THAT BRINGS ME TO ONE OTHER POINT THOUGH, JOSHUA 13:39:56 GENERATION, AND THAT IS THIS, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ENOUGH 13:40:01 JUST TO ASK WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR US, IT'S IMPORTANT 13:40:05 FOR US TO ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OURSELVES. 13:40:10 YET ONE OF THE SIGNATURE ASPECTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS 13:40:15 THE DEGREE OF DISCIPLINE AND FORTITUDE THAT WAS INSTILLED IN 13:40:21 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED. IMAGINE YOUNG PEOPLE, 16, 17, 13:40:29 20, 21 BACK STRAIGHT, EYES CLEAR, SUIT AND TIE SITTING DOWN 13:40:37 AT A LUNCH COUNTER KNOW BE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SPILL MILK 13:40:40 ON YOU BUT YOU HAVE THE DISCIPLINE TO UNDERSTAND THAT 13:40:43 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RETALIATE BECAUSE IN SHOWING THE WORLD HOW 13:40:48 DISCIPLINED WE WERE AS A PEOPLE, WE WERE ABLE TO WIN OVER THE 13:40:53 CONSCIENCE OF A NATION. I CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN THAT WE 13:41:00 HAVE INSTILLED THAT SAME SENSE OF MORAL CLARITY AND PURPOSE IN 13:41:05 THIS GENERATION. BISHOP, SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE 13:41:08 WE'VE LOST IT A LITTLE BIT. YOU KNOW, I'M FIGHTING TO MAKE 13:41:14 SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE ADEQUATELY FUNDED. 13:41:16 ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE HAVE INEQUITIES IN HOW SCHOOLS ARE 13:41:20 FUNDED BECAUSE IT'S RELIED ON PROPERTY TAXES AND PEOPLE WHO 13:41:23 HAPPEN TO BE BORN IN WEALTHY DISTRICTS, SOMEHOW THEY GET 13:41:28 BETTER SCHOOLS THAN FOLKS WHO ARE BORN IN POOR DISTRICTS AND 13:41:32 THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. 13:41:34 THAT'S NOT THE AMERICAN WAY, BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, EVEN AS I FIGHT 13:41:38 ON BEHALF OF MORE EDUCATION FUNDING, MORE EQUITY, I HAVE TO 13:41:42 ALSO SAY THAT IF PARENTS DON'T TURN OFF THE TELEVISION SET WHEN 13:41:47 THE CHILD COMES HOME FROM SCHOOL, AND MAKE SURE THEY SIT 13:41:52 DOWN AND DO THEIR HOMEWORK AND GO TALK TO THE TEACHERS AND FIND 13:41:56 OUT HOW THEY'RE DOING AND IF WE DON'T START INSTILLING A SENSE 13:41:59 IN OUR YOUNG CHILDREN, THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED 13:42:04 ABOUT IN EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, I DON'T KNOW WHO 13:42:07 CAUGHT THEM THAT READING AND WRITING AND CONJUGATING YOUR 13:42:11 VERBS WAS ACTING WHITE, WE'VE GOT TO GET OVER THAT MENTALITY. 13:42:14 WE'VE GOT TO DO FOR OURSEOURSEL. THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE MOSES 13:42:19 GENERATION TEACHES US, NOT SAYING TO OURSELVES WE CAN'T DO 13:42:23 SOMETHING BUT TELLING OURSELVES THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE. 13:42:27 WE CAN DO THAT. WE'VE GOT POWER IN OUR HANDS. 13:42:36 FOLKS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR GOVERNMENT. 13:42:39 I UNDERSTAND THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE COMPLAINING ABOUT. 13:42:45 I'M IN WASHINGTON. I SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 13:42:48 I SEE THOSE POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES HAVE SNUCK BACK 13:42:52 IN THERE. THAT THEY'RE WRITING THE ENERGY 13:42:55 BILLS AND THE DRUG LAWS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT. 13:42:58 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, I ALSO KNOW THAT IF COUSIN POOKIE WOULD 13:43:05 VOTE, IF UNCLE JETHRO WOULD GET OFF THE COUCH AND STOP WATCHING 13:43:12 "SPORTSCENTER" AND GO REGISTER SOME FOLKS AND GO TO THE POLLS, 13:43:15 WE MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF POLITICS. 13:43:18 THAT'S WHAT THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US. 13:43:23 KICK OFF YOUR BEDROOM SLIPPERS, PUT ON YOUR MARCHING SHOES, GO 13:43:28 DO SOME POLITICS, CHANGE THIS COUNTRY. 13:43:30 THAT'S WHAT THEY TEACH US. WE'VE GOT TOO MANY CHILDREN IN 13:43:39 POVERTY IN THIS COUNTRY, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ASHAMED. 13:43:43 BUT DON'T TELL ME EARTH DOESN'T HAVE A LITTLE TO DO WITH THE 13:43:46 FACT THAT WE GOT TOO MANY DADDIES NOT ACTING LIKE DADDIES. 13:43:53 I THINK THAT -- THINK THAT FATHERHOOD ENDS AT CONCEPTION, I 13:43:59 KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE MY FATHER WASN'T AROUND 13:44:02 WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND I STRUGGLED. 13:44:07 THOSE OF YOU WHO READ MY BOOK KNOW. 13:44:09 I WENT THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT TIMES. 13:44:11 I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A STRONG MALE FIGURE 13:44:15 IN THE HOUSE, WHICH IS WHY THE HARDEST THING ABOUT ME BEING IN 13:44:19 POLITICS SOMETIMES IS NOT BEING HOME AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE AND I'M 13:44:22 JUST BLESSED THAT I'VE GOT SUCH A WONDERFUL WIFE AT HOME TO HOLD 13:44:26 THINGS TOGETHER, BUT DON'T TELL ME THAT WE CAN'T DO BETTER BY 13:44:36 OUR CHILDREN, THAT WE CAN'T TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE 13:44:40 WE'RE INSTILLING IN THEM THE VALUES AND THE IDEAS THAT THE 13:44:43 MOSES GENERATION TAUGHT US ABOUT SACRIFICE AND DIGNITY AND 13:44:47 HONESTY AND HARD WORK AND DISCIPLINE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. 13:44:51 THAT COMES FROM US. WE'VE GOT TO TRANSMIT THAT TO 13:44:56 THE NEXT GENERATION AND I GUESS THE POINT THAT I'M MAKE 13:44:58 SOMETHING THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WASN'T JUST A FIGHT 13:45:03 AGAINST THE OPPRESSOR, IT WAS ALSO A FIGHT AGAINST THE 13:45:06 OPPRESSOR IN EACH OF US. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S EASY TO 13:45:12 JUST POINT AT SOMEBODY ELSE AND SAY, IT'S THERE THEIR FAULT BUT 13:45:17 OPPRESSION HAS A WAY OF CREEPING INTO YOU, REVEREND. 13:45:19 IT HAS A WAY OF STUNTING YOURSELF. 13:45:23 YOU START TELLING YOURSELF, BISHOP, I CAN'T DO SOMETHING. 13:45:27 I CAN'T READ, I CAN'T -- I CAN'T GO TO COLLEGE. 13:45:30 I CAN'T START A BUSINESS. I CAN'T RUN FOR CONGRESS. 13:45:33 I CAN'T RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, PEOPLE START TELLING YOU CAN'T 13:45:38 DO SOMETHING, AFTER A WHILE, YOU TART BELIEVING IT. 13:45:44 AND PART OF WHAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS ABOUT WAS 13:45:47 RECOGNIZING THAT WE HAVE TO TRANSFORM OURSELVES IN ORDER TO 13:45:50 TRANSFORM THE WORLD. MAHATMA GANDHI, THE GREAT HERO 13:45:57 OF DR. KING AND THE PERSON WHO HELPED CREATE THE NONVIOLENT 13:46:03 MOVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD, HE ONCE SAID THAT "YOU CAN'T CHANGE 13:46:07 THE WORLD IF YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED. 13:46:10 IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, THE CHANGE HAS TO HAPPEN WITH 13:46:13 YOU FIRST." AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE 13:46:19 GREATEST AND MOST HONORABLE OF GENERATIONS HAS TAUGHT US. 13:46:26 BUT THE FINAL THING THAT I THINK THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US 13:46:29 IS TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE DO WHAT WE DO BECAUSE GOD IS 13:46:35 WITH US. YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES WAS FIRST 13:46:41 CALLED TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT OF THE PROMISED LAND, HE SAID, "I DON'T 13:46:45 THINK I CAN DO IT, LORD. I DON'T SPEAK LIKE REVEREND 13:46:49 LOWERY. I DON'T -- I DON'T FEEL BRAVE 13:46:53 AND COURAGEOUS" AND THE LORD SAID "I WILL BE WITH YOU. 13:46:59 THROW DOWN THAT ROD, PICK IT BACK UP. 13:47:03 I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO." 13:47:06 AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:47:14 JOSHUA SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M SCARED. 13:47:17 I'M NOT SURE THAT I AM UP TO THE CHALLENGE, AND THE LORD SAID TO 13:47:25 HIM, EVERY PLACE THAT THE SOUL OF YOUR FOOT WILL TREAD UPON, I 13:47:31 HAVE GIVEN YOU. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I 13:47:36 AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:47:43 THAT'S A PRAYER FOR A JOURNEY, A PRAYER THAT KEPT A WOMAN IN HER 13:47:47 SEAT WHEN THE BUS DRIVER TOLD HER TO GET UP, A PRAYER THAT LED 13:47:50 NINE CHILDREN THROUGH THE DOORS OF A LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL, A 13:47:53 PRAYER THAT CARRIED OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER A BRIDGE RIGHT 13:47:57 HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE WHEN 13:48:02 YOU SEE ROW AND ROW OF STATE TROOPER FACING YOU, YOU SEE THE 13:48:07 HORSES AND THE TEAR GAS, HOW ELSE CAN YOU WALK TOWARDS THEM 13:48:10 UNARMED AND UNAFRAID? WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU AND 13:48:13 START BEATING YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR NEIGHBORS HOW ELSE CAN YOU 13:48:17 SIMPLY KNEEL DOWN, BOW YOUR HEAD AND ASK THE LORD FOR SALVATION 13:48:20 WHEN YOU SEE HEADS GASHED OPEN AND EYES BURNING AND LITTLE 13:48:24 CHILDREN LYING HURT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WHEN YOU'RE JOHN 13:48:28 LEWIS AND YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE ON 13:48:31 SUNDAY HOW DO YOU WAKE UP ON MONDAY AND KEEP ON MARCHING? 13:48:34 BE STRONG, AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. 13:48:41 WE'VE COME A LONG WAY IN THIS JOURNEY, BUT WE STILL HAVE A 13:48:46 LONG WAY TO TRAVEL. WE TRAVEL BECAUSE GOD WAS WITH 13:48:52 US. IT'S NOT HOW FAR WE'VE COME THIS 13:48:55 FAR ON OUR JOURNEY. THAT BRIDGE OUTSIDE WAS CROSSED 13:48:58 BY BLACKS AND WHITES, NORTHERNERS AND SOUTHERNERS, 13:49:01 TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN, SHOPKEEPERS AND JANITORS, A 13:49:04 BELOVED COMMUNITY OF GOD'S CHILDREN WILLING TO TAKE THOSE 13:49:07 STEPS TOGETHER. BUT IT WAS LEFT TO THE JOSHUAS 13:49:12 TO FINISH THE JOURNEY MOSES HAD BEGUN AND TODAY WE'RE CALLED TO 13:49:15 BE THE JOSHUAS OF OUR TIME, TO BE THE GENERATION THAT FINDS OUR 13:49:19 WAY ACROSS THIS RIVER, THERE WILL BE DAYS WHEN THE WATER 13:49:23 SEEMS WIDE AND THE JOURNEY TOO FAR, BUT IN THOSE MOMENTS WE 13:49:27 MUST REMEMBER THAT THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, THERE HAS BEEN A 13:49:31 RUNNING THREAD OF IDEALS THAT HAVE GUIDED OUR TRAVELS AND 13:49:35 PUSHED US FORWARD EVEN WHEN THEY'RE JUST BEYOND OUR REACH, 13:49:40 LIBERTY IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY, EQUALITY IN THE FACE OF BITTER 13:49:44 INJUSTICE, OPPORTUNITY WHERE THERE WAS NONE AND HOPE OVER THE 13:49:46 MOST CRUSHING DE SPARE, THOSE IDEALS, THOSE VALUES, THEY 13:49:50 BECKON US STILL, AND WHEN WE HAVE OUR DOUBTS AND OUR FEARS, 13:49:53 JUST LIKE JOSHUA DID, WHEN THE ROAD LOOKS TOO LONG AND IT SEEMS 13:49:57 LIKE WE MAY LOSE OUR WAY, REMEMBER WHAT THESE PEOPLE DID 13:50:01 ON THAT BRIDGE, KEEPING YOUR H 13:50:07 HEART, THE PRAYER OF THAT JOURNEY, THE PRAYER THAT GOD 13:50:09 GAVE TO JOSHUA, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF 13:50:16 INJUSTICE, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF PREJUDICE 13:50:21 AND HATRED, IN THE FACE OF JOBLESSNESS AND HELPLESSNESS AND 13:50:28 HOPELESSNESS, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:50:30 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED TODAY IN THE FACE 13:50:34 OF OUR DOUBTS AND FEARS, IN THE FACE OF SKEPTICISM, IN THE FACE 13:50:39 OF CYNICISM, IN THE FACE OF A MIGHTY RIVER, BE STRONG AND HAVE 13:50:44 COURAGE AND LET US CROSS OVER THAT PROMISED LAND TOGETHER. 13:50:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY. GOD BLESS YOU. END SENATOR BARACK OBAMA

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[VOTE 2008 / OBAMA AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA] [SELMA, ALA USA] FTG OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-ILL) AT BROWN CHAPEL AME IN SELMA, ALABAMA 12:28:32 Obama standing 12:29:01 Obama sits back down 12:41:55 Obama receiving a standing ovation 12:42:08 Obama smiling and laughing 12:46:07 Obama standing behind preacher 12:46:21 Obama clapping and sitting back down 12:52:41 Obama clapping 13:16:19 I want to start by saying I want to thank him for his support . 13:17:14 Somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage . 13:17:39 To all the distinguished guests and clergy. I'm not sure I'm going to thank the . because he stole the show . nervous about following so many great clergy men .. 13:18:31 Thanks you very much for letting me speak . after I announced I was running for president of the united states . drawing from script 13:19:24 I acknowledge there is a certain amount of presumptuousness with this . his son is now preacher at my church . I got a letter giving me encouragement telling me how proud he was and reminded me to stay true to my ideals . tell them to look at the story of Joshua . 13:20:37 So I just want to talk a little bit about . we are in the presence today of a lot of Moses' . people who battle on behalf of all of America . endured taunts and torments . gave full measure of their devotion . who said that some are atop and some are at the bottom and that's how it will always be . 13:22:53 They wondered through a desert and knowing that god was with them . and it's because they marched that the next generation has not been as bloodied . it's because they marched that I stand here today . 13:23:54 Because not only is my career the result of the men and women we honor here today, my very existence might not have happened . you don't understand, my grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya . 13:25:24 Yet something happened here in Selma Alabama . 13:26:25 Worried folks in the white house, we're fighting communism . the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift . this young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets . 13:27:46 Don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma Alabama . I'm here because ya'll sacrificed or me . I stand on your shoulders . 13:32:36 Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence, you have to fill that . second thing is the principals of equality is not a one sided thing . 13:33:43 They have basically spent all their time worrying about affirmative action . reminds us we still have a lot work to do . we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough . that is something that we have got to continue to work on 13:35:40 Third thing, we fought for civil rights, but we still have a lot of economic rights to work for . we've got what's know as a health care disparity . life expectancy is lower in the minorities . we have fewer teachers and text books in the schools . health care gap and achievement gap 13:37:00 New Orleans still looks bombed out . when 9-11 happened, they waived any requirement . because they understood . federal government says where's your 10%. There's an empathy gap . 13:38:02 Not a gap the American people felt . the government was the problem . because many of those communities . hope gap . 13:38:40 The question is, what are we the Joshua generation doing to close the gap .. Are we ensuring . and giving a second chance 13:39:29 Government can help . make sure the government is responsive . it's enough to ask with the government can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves . 13:41:24 I tell you what, even as I fight for more education funding . if parents don't turn off the television set . it we don't instill a sense in our young children . we've got to get over that mentality . 13:42:14 Telling ourselves we can achieve . we can do that. We can achieve. 13:42:37 I'm in Washington, I see what's going on . I also know that cousin poky wasn't voting . kick off your marching slippers, put on your marching shoes . 13:43:44 They think that fatherhood ends at conception . I went through some difficult times . 13:44:53 It wasn't just a fight against the oppressor, it was a fight against the oppressor in all of us . it has a way of stunting yourself . part of what the civil rights movement was realizing you have to change more then just ourselves . 13:46:04 That is something that the greatest and the most honorable of generations has taught us . we do what we do because God is with us . 13:46:56 The same thing happened with the Joshua generation . not sure I can do this . be strong and have courage . that's a prayer for a journey . 13:48:31 We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to go . that bridge was crossed . and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our generation .. Liberty in the face of injustice . 13:49:56 Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey . be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice . hopelessness 13:50:29 In the face of a mighty river, be strong and have courage and lets cross that bridge together, thank you 13:50:55 Obama embracing various members of the clergy on stage 13:51:37 Obama sits back down 13:56:42 Obama head down in prayer and song SEGMENT [1] 2007/03/04 ************************************************ SENATOR BARACK OBAMA SPEAKING AT THE BROWN CHAPEL IN SELMA, ALABAMA 13:16:08 SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: I MUST BEGIN BECAUSE AT THE 13:16:16 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS MORNING, I WAS SAVING HIM FOR LAST AND THE 13:16:20 LIST OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WAS SO LONG, I LEFT HIM OUT AFTER THAT 13:16:25 INTRODUCTION, SO I'M GOING TO START BY SAYING HOW MUCH I 13:16:29 APPRECIATE THE FRIENDSHIP AND THE SUPPORT AND THE OUTSTANDING 13:16:33 WORK THAT HE DOES EACH AND EVERY DAY, NOT JUST IN CAPITOL HILL 13:16:39 BUT ALSO BACK HERE IN THE DISTRICT, PLEASE GIVE A WARM 13:16:42 ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN ARTUR DAVIS. 13:16:45 [ APPLAUSE ] IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE, 13:16:58 REVEREND JACKSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TO THE FAMILY OF BROWN 13:17:04 AM & E AND BISHOP KIRKLAND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL 13:17:09 MESSAGE AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ONE OF THE 13:17:16 GREAT HEROS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND AMERICAN LIFE, SOMEBODY WHO 13:17:29 CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF DECENCY AND COURAGE, SOMEBODY WHO I HAVE 13:17:35 ADMIRED ALL MY LIFE AND WERE IT NOT FOR HIM I'M NOT SURE I WOULD 13:17:41 BE HERE TODAY, CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, I'M THANKFUL TO HIM. 13:17:44 [ APPLAUSE ] TO ALL THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS 13:17:51 AND CLERGY, I'M NOT SURE I'M GOING TO THANK REVEREND LOWERY 13:17:56 BECAUSE HE STOLE THE SHOW. [ LAUGHTER ] 13:18:06 I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER I KNOW WE'VE GOT C.T. VIVIAN AND ALL 13:18:11 THIS. WHEN YOU HAVE TO SPEAK IN FRONT 13:18:12 OF SOMEBODY WHO MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID WAS THE GREATEST 13:18:15 PREACHER HE EVER HEARD THEN YOU GOT SOME PROBLEMS, AND I'M A 13:18:19 LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT FOLLOWING SO MANY GREAT PREACHERS. 13:18:28 BUT I AM HOPING THAT THE SPIRIT MOVES ME. 13:18:31 TO ALL MY CONGRESSIONAL COLLEAGUES AND OTHER ELECTED 13:18:34 OFFICIALS WERE HERE, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO HAVE GIVEN ME SUCH A 13:18:38 WARM WELCOME, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TO 13:18:42 YOU HERE TODAY. YOU KNOW, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, 13:18:50 AFTER I HAD ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF 13:18:55 THE UNITED STATES, I STOOD IN FRONT OF THE OLD STATE CAPITOL 13:18:59 IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DELIVERED HIS 13:19:05 SPEECH DECLARING DASH DRAWING FROM SCRIPTURE THAT A HOUSE 13:19:09 DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF COULD NOT STAND, AND I STOOD AND I 13:19:13 ANNOUNCED THAT I WAS RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY, AND THERE WERE A 13:19:17 LOT OF COMMENTATORS AS THEY ARE PRONE TO DO WHO QUESTIONED THE 13:19:24 AUDACITY OF A YOUNG MAN LIKE MYSELF, HADN'T BEEN IN 13:19:29 WASHINGTON TOO LONG AND I ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE'S A 13:19:34 CERTAIN PRESUMPTUOUSNESS ABOUT THIS, BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM A 13:19:40 FRIEND OF SOME OF YOURS NAMED REVEREND OTIS MALSH JR. IN 13:19:49 CLEVELAND, ILLINOIS, AND HIS SON, OTIS MOSS III IS NOW 13:19:54 PASTORING AT MY CHURCH, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST AND I 13:19:59 MUST SEND GREETINGS FROM OUR SENIOR PASTOR DR. INJURE MYA A. 13:20:05 WRIGHT JR., BUT I GOT A LETTER FROM REVEREND OTIS MOSS JR. 13:20:10 GIVING ME ENCOURAGEMENT AND SAYING HOW PROUD HE WAS THAT I 13:20:15 HAD ANNOUNCED, AND ENCOURAGING ME TO STAY TRUE TO MY IDEALS AND 13:20:23 MY VALUES AND NOT TO BE FEARFUL AND HE SAID IF THERE'S SOME 13:20:29 FOLKS OUT THERE WHO ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT YOU 13:20:34 SHOULD RUN, JUST TELL THEM TO LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOSHUA. 13:20:43 BECAUSE YOU'RE PART OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:20:47 AND SO I JUST WANT TO TALK A LITTLE ABOUT MOSES AND AARON AND 13:20:53 JOSHUA. BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE 13:21:00 TODAY OF A LOT OF MOSESS. WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE TODAY OF 13:21:08 GIANTS WHOSE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON, PEOPLE WHO BATTLED ON 13:21:17 BEHALF, NOT JUST OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, BUT ON BEHALF 13:21:21 OF ALL OF AMERICA, THAT BATTLED FOR AMERICA'S SOUL, THAT SHED 13:21:31 BLOOD, THAT ENDURED TAUNTS AND TORMENT AND IN SOME CASES GAVE 13:21:37 THE FULL MEASURE OF THEIR DEVOTION. 13:21:41 LIKE MOSES, THEY CHALLENGED FARROW, THE PRINCES AND POWERS, 13:21:51 WHO SAID THAT SOME ARE ATOP AND OTHERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM, AND 13:21:57 THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE. 13:22:00 THERE WERE PEOPLE LIKE ANNA COOPER AND MARIE FOSTER AND 13:22:05 JIMMY LEE JACKSON AND MAURICE OLETT, C.T. VIVIAN, REVEREND 13:22:13 LOWERY, JOHN LEWIS, WHO SAID WE CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, 13:22:19 THAT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE FOR US TOO. 13:22:23 THAT GOD HAS MADE US IN HIS IMAGE, AND THAT WE REJECT THE 13:22:28 NOTION THAT WE WILL FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES BE CONFINED TO A 13:22:33 STATION OF INFERIORITY, THAT WE CAN ASPIRE TO THE HIGHEST OF 13:22:39 HEIGHTS THAT OUR TALENTS CAN BE EXPRESSED TO THEIR FULLEST. 13:22:45 AND SO BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY ENDURED, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY 13:22:50 MARCHED, THEY LED A PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:22:56 THEY TOOK THEM ACROSS A SEA THAT FOLKS THOUGHT COULD NOT BE 13:23:02 PARTED. THEY WANDERED THROUGH A DESERT, 13:23:06 BUT ALWAYS KNOWING THAT GOD WAS WITH THEM AND THAT IF THEY 13:23:11 MAINTAINED THAT TRUST IN GOD, THAT THEY WOULD BE ALL RIGHT. 13:23:17 AND IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT THE NEXT GENERATION HASN'T 13:23:25 BEEN BLOODED SO MUCH. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT 13:23:28 WE ELECTED COUNCILMEN AND CONGRESSMEN. 13:23:32 IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT WE HAVE ARTUR DAVIS AND KEITH 13:23:37 ELLISON. IT'S BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I 13:23:39 GOT THE KIND OF EDUCATION I GOT, THAT I GOT A LAW DEGREE AND A 13:23:45 SEAT IN THE ILLINOIS SENATE AND ULTIMATELY IN THE UNITED STATES 13:23:48 SENATE IS BECAUSE THEY MARCHED THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU HERE 13:23:50 TODAY. AND I WAS MENTIONING AT THE 13:24:02 UNITY BREAKFAST THIS IMPORTANT, MY DEBT IS EVEN GREATER THAN 13:24:05 THAT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS MY CAREER THE RESULT OF THE WORK OF 13:24:13 THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WE HONOR HERE TODAY, MY VERY EXISTENCE 13:24:21 MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SOME OF THE 13:24:24 FOLKS HERE TODAY. I MENTIONED AT THE UNITY 13:24:28 BREAKFAST THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING, WELL, YOU 13:24:31 KNOW, YOUR FATHER WAS FROM AFRICA, YOUR MOTHER, SHE'S A 13:24:35 WHITE WOMAN FROM KANSAS, I'M NOT SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME 13:24:39 EXPERIENCE, AND I TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT. 13:24:41 YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU SEE, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A 13:24:45 COOK TO THE BRITISH IN KENYA, GREW UP IN A SMALL VILLAGE, AND 13:24:52 ALL HIS LIFE THAT'S ALL HE WAS WAS A COOK AND A HOUSEBOY AND 13:24:56 THAT'S WHAT THEY CALLED HIM EVEN WHEN HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD THEY 13:25:00 CALLED HIM A HOUSEBOY. WOULDN'T CALL HIM BY HIS LAST 13:25:05 NAME. CALLED HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME. 13:25:08 SOUND FAMILIAR? AND HE HAD TO CARRY A PASSBOOK 13:25:14 AROUND, BECAUSE AFRICANS IN THEIR OWN LAND IN THEIR OWN 13:25:17 COUNTRY AT THAT TIME BECAUSE IT WAS A BRITISH COLONY COULD NOT 13:25:22 MOVE ABOUT FREELY. THEY COULD ONLY GO WHERE THEY 13:25:25 WERE TOLD TO G THEY COULD ONLY WORK WHERE THEY WERE TOLD TO 13:25:31 WORK, AND YET SOMETHING HAPPENED BACK HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA, 13:25:37 SOMETHING HAPPENED IN BIRMINGHAM THAT SENT OUT WHAT BOBBY KENNEDY 13:25:41 CALLED RIPPLES OF HOPE ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 13:25:44 SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN A BUNCH OF WOMEN DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO 13:25:49 WALK INSTEAD OF RIDE THE BUS AFTER A LONG DAY OF DOING 13:25:53 SOMEBODY ELSE'S LAUNDRY AND LOOKING AFTER SOMEBODY ELSE'S 13:25:55 CHILDREN WHEN MEN WHO HAD Ph.D.s WERE WORKING AS PORTERS DECIDED 13:26:01 THAT'S ENOUGH AND WE'RE GOING TO STAND UP DESPITE THE RISKS FOR 13:26:04 OUR DIGNITY AND I RESPECT THAT CENTER SHOUT ACROSS OCEANS SO 13:26:10 THAT MY GRANDFATHER BEGAN TO IMAGINE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR 13:26:14 HIS SON AND HIS SON WHO GREW UP HERDING GOATS IN A SMALL VILLAGE 13:26:19 IN AFRICA COULD SUDDENLY SET HIS SIGHTS A LITTLE HIGHER AND 13:26:24 SUDDENLY BELIEVE THAT MAYBE A BLACK MAN IN THIS WORLD HAD A 13:26:29 CHANCE, AND WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA AND BIRMINGHAM 13:26:33 ALSO STIRRED THE CONSCIENCE OF A NATION AND IT WORRIED FOLKS IN 13:26:38 THE WHITE HOUSE WHO SAID WE'RE BATTLING COMMUNISM, HOW ARE WE 13:26:41 GOING TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS ALL ACROSS THE WORLD IF 13:26:44 RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JOHN, WE'RE NOT OBSERVING THE 13:26:49 IDEALS THAT ARE SET FORTH IN OUR CONSTITUTION? 13:26:52 WE MIGHT BE ACCUSED OF BEING HYPOCRITES SO THE KENNEDYS 13:26:56 DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO DO AN AIRLIFT. 13:26:59 WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT TO AFRICA AND WE'RE GOING TO START 13:27:02 BRINGING YOUNG AFRICANS OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND BRING THEM 13:27:05 SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN WHAT A WONDERFUL 13:27:09 COUNTRY AMERICA IS AND THIS YOUNG MAN NAMED BARACK OBAMA GOT 13:27:13 ONE OF THOSE TICKETS AND CAME OVER TO THIS COUNTRY AND HE MET 13:27:20 THIS WOMAN, WHOSE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER HAD 13:27:25 OWNED SLAVES, BUT SHE HAD A DIFFERENT IDEA. 13:27:29 THERE'S SOME GOOD CRAZINESS GOING ON BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AT 13:27:32 EACH OTHER AND THEY DECIDED, WE KNOW THAT IN THE WORLD AS IT HAS 13:27:36 BEEN IT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET TOGETHER AND HAVE 13:27:39 A CHILD, BUT SOMETHING IS STIRRING ACROSS THE COUNTRY 13:27:42 BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN SELMA, ALABAMA, BECAUSE SOME 13:27:46 FOLKS ARE WILLING TO MARCH ACROSS THE BRIDGE. 13:27:49 AND SO THEY GOT TOGETHER AND BARACK OBAMA JR. WAS BORN. 13:27:55 SO DON'T TELL ME I DON'T HAVE A CLAIM ON SELMA, ALABAMA. 13:28:00 DON'T TELL ME I'M NOT COMING HOME WHEN I COME TO SELMA, 13:28:03 ALABAMA. I'M HERE BECAUSE SOMEBODY 13:28:06 MARCHED FOR OUR FREEDOM. I'M HERE BECAUSE Y'ALL 13:28:11 SACRIFICED FOR ME. I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF 13:28:19 THIS. I THANK THE MOSES GENERATION. 13:28:27 BUT WE GOT TO REMEMBER NOW THAT JOSHUA STILL HAD A JOB TO DO. 13:28:36 AS GREAT AS MOSES WAS, DESPITE ALL THAT HE DID, LEADING A 13:28:44 PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE, HE DIDN'T CROSS OVER THE RIVER TO SEE THE 13:28:51 PROMISED LAND. GOD TOLD HIM YOUR JOB IS DONE, 13:28:55 YOU'LL SEE IT. YOU'LL BE AT THE MOUNTAINTOP, 13:28:58 AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT I'VE PROMISED, WHAT I PROMISED TO 13:29:03 ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB AND I PROMISED TO YOU, YOU CAN SEE 13:29:07 THAT I WILL FULFILL THAT PROMISE. 13:29:10 BUT YOU WON'T GO THERE. WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE IT TO THE 13:29:14 JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS. 13:29:18 THERE'S STILL SOME BATTLES HA NEED TO BE FOUGHT, SOME RIVERS 13:29:21 THAT NEED TO BE CROSSED. LIKE MOSES, THE TASK WAS PASSED 13:29:27 ON TO THOSE WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AS DESERVING, MIGHT NOT 13:29:33 HAVE BEEN AS COURAGEOUS FIND THEMSELVES IN FRONT OF THE RISKS 13:29:37 THAT THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT 13:29:41 GRANDPARENTS HAD TAKEN, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY STILL DON'T 13:29:43 HAVE A BURDEN THAT THEY HAVE TO SHOULDER, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE 13:29:47 SOME RESPONSIBILITIES THE PREVIOUS GENERATION, THE MOSES 13:29:51 GENERATION POINTED THE WAY. THEY TOOK US 90% OF THE WAY 13:29:55 THERE, BUT WE STILL GOT THAT 10% IN ORDER TO CROSS OVER TO THE 13:30:00 OTHER SIDE. AND SO THE QUESTION, I GUESS, 13:30:05 THAT I HAVE TODAY IS WHAT'S CALLED OF US IN THIS JOSHUA 13:30:11 GENERATION? WHAT DO WE DO IN ORDER TO 13:30:13 FULFILL THAT LEGACY TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS AND THE DEBT 13:30:17 THAT WE OWE TO THOSE WHO ALLOWED US TO BE HERE TODAY? 13:30:22 NOW, I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVER FULLY REPAY THAT DEBT. 13:30:26 I THINK THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE LOOKING BACK, BUT THERE 13:30:33 ARE AT LEAST A FEW SUGGESTIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE IN TERMS OF 13:30:37 HOW WE MIGHT FULFILL THAT ENORMOUS LEGACY. 13:30:43 THE FIRST IS TO RECOGNIZE OUR HISTORY. 13:30:48 JOHN LEWIS TALKED ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY, BUT I WORRY 13:30:52 SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WE COME DOWN TO 13:30:57 MARCH EVERY YEAR ONCE A YEAR. WE OCCASIONALLY CELEBRATE THE 13:31:05 VARIOUS EVENTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 13:31:08 WE CELEBRATE DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY, BUT IT STRIKES ME THAT 13:31:12 UNDERSTANDING OUR HISTORY AND KNOWING WHAT IT MEANS IS AN 13:31:15 EVERYDAY ACTIVITY. YOU NOTICE WHEN MOSES SPOKE TO 13:31:23 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, TELLING THEM THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO BE 13:31:30 GOING WITH THEM, HE LAID OUT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND 13:31:34 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE SAID, BISHOP, WAS HE SAID, "KNOW YOUR 13:31:39 PAST. KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM. 13:31:41 KNOW HOW YOU WERE LED OUT OF BONDAGE. 13:31:45 KNOW HOW PHARAOH REFUSED TO LET YOU GO AND THAT GOD CAME DOWN 13:31:49 AND VISITED ALL MANNER OF PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE UNTIL FINALLY A 13:31:54 PEOPLE WERE FREED." MOSES TOLD THE JOSHUA 13:32:00 GENERATION, DON'T FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM, AND I WORRY 13:32:04 SOMETIMES THAT THE JOSHUA GENERATION IN ITS SUCCESS 13:32:08 FORGETS WHERE IT CAME FROM. THINKS IT DOESN'T HAVE TO MAKE 13:32:12 AS MANY SACRIFICES, THINKS THAT THE VERY HEIGHT OF AMBITION IS 13:32:18 TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU CAN, TO DRIVE THE BIGGEST CAR 13:32:23 AND HAVE THE BIGGEST HOUSE AND WEAR A ROLEX WATCH AND GET YOUR 13:32:28 OWN PRIVATE JET, GET SOME OF THAT OPRAH MONEY, AND I THINK 13:32:37 THAT'S A GOOD THING. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH 13:32:40 MAKING MONEY BUT IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THEN YOU KNOW THAT 13:32:44 THERE'S A CERTAIN POVERTY OF AMBITION INVOLVED IN SIMPLY 13:32:50 STRIVING JUST FOR MONEY, MATERIALISM ALONE WILL NOT 13:32:58 FULFILL THE POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 13:33:01 YOU HAVE TO FILL THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 13:33:02 YOU HAVE TO FILL IT WITH THE GOLAN RULE. 13:33:05 YOU GOT TO FILL IT WITH THINKING ABOUT OTHERS, AND IF WE KNOW OUR 13:33:10 HISTORY, THEN WE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE HIGHEST MARK OF 13:33:16 SERVICE. SECOND THING THAT THE JOSHUA 13:33:19 GENERATION NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE PRINCIPLES OF 13:33:23 EQUALITY THAT WERE SET FORTH AND WERE BATTLED FOR HAVE TO BE 13:33:28 FOUGHT EACH AND EVERY DAY, IT IS NOT A ONE-TIME THING. 13:33:34 I WAS REMARKING AT THE UNITY BREAKFAST ON THE FACT THAT THE 13:33:40 SINGLE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONCERN THAT THIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 13:33:46 UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD WITH RESPECT TO 13:33:50 DISCRIMINATION HAS TO DO WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 13:33:53 THAT THEY HAVE BASICALLY SPENT ALL THEIR TIME WORRYING ABOUT 13:33:58 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE GIVEN A 13:34:01 LITTLE BREAK TO YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANICS 13:34:06 TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN GO TO COLLEGE TOO. 13:34:08 I HAD A SCHOOL IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THAT IT SET UP A 13:34:11 PROGRAM FOR Ph.D.s IN MATH AND SCIENCE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, 13:34:16 AND THE REASON THEY HAD SET IT UP IS BECAUSE WE ONLY HAD LESS 13:34:21 THAN 1% OF THE Ph.D.s, DOCTOR, IN SCIENCE AND MATH GO TO 13:34:27 AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE COMPETING IN A 13:34:30 GLOBAL ECONOMY -- WHEN WE'RE NOT JUST COMPETING AGAINST FOLKS IN 13:34:36 NORTH CAROLINA OR FLORIDA BUT IN CHINA AND INDIA AND WE NEED MATH 13:34:40 AND SCIENCE MAJORS, THIS UNIVERSITY THOUGHT THAT THIS 13:34:43 MIGHT BE A NICE THING TO DO, AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WROTE 13:34:46 THEM A LETTER SAYING WE ARE GOING TO THREATEN TO SUE YOU FOR 13:34:50 REVERSE DISCRIMINATION UNLESS YOU CEASE THIS PROGRAM, AND IT 13:34:56 REMINDS US THAT WE STILL GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO, AND THAT THE 13:35:02 BASIC ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS, THE 13:35:07 INJUSTICE THAT STILL EXISTS WITHIN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 13:35:11 SYSTEM, THE DISPARITY IN TERMS OF HOW PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN 13:35:17 THIS COUNTRY CONTINUES. IT HAS GOTTEN BETTER, AND WE 13:35:21 SHOULD NEVER DENY THAT IT'S GOTTEN BETTER, BUT WE SHOULDN'T 13:35:25 FORGET THAT BETTER IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, THAT UNTIL WE'VE GOT 13:35:30 ABSOLUTE EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY IN TERMS OF PEOPLE BEING 13:35:33 TREATED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR COLOR OR THEIR GENDER THAT THAT 13:35:37 IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON AND THE 13:35:42 JOSHUA GENERATION HAS A SIGNIFICANT TASK IN MAKING THAT 13:35:45 HAPPEN. THIRD THING, WE'VE GOT TO 13:35:51 RECOGNIZE THAT WE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, BUT WE'VE STILL 13:35:55 GOT A LOT OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH. 13:35:59 WE'VE GOT 46 -- 46 MILLION PEOPLE UNINSURED IN THIS COUNTRY 13:36:06 DESPITE SPENDING MORE MONEY ON HEALTH CARE THAN ANY NATION ON 13:36:08 EARTH. MAKES NO SENSE. 13:36:13 AS CONSEQUENCE WE'VE GOT WHAT'S KNOWN AS A HEALTH CARE DISPARITY 13:36:19 IN THIS NATION BECAUSE MANY OF THE UNINSURED ARE 13:36:23 AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR LATINO. LIFE EXPECTANCY IS LOWER, ALMOST 13:36:27 EVERY DISEASE IS HIGHER WITHIN MINORITY COMMUNITIES. 13:36:32 THE HEALTH CARE GAME. BLACKS ARE LESS LIKELY IN THEIR 13:36:35 SCHOOLS TO HAVE ADEQUATE FUNDING. 13:36:39 WE HAVE LESS QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:43 WE HAVE FEWER TEXTBOOKS IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 13:36:47 WE GOT IN SOME SCHOOLS RATS OUTNUMBERING COMPUTERS. 13:36:52 THAT'S CALLED THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:36:55 YOU GOT A HEALTH CARE GAP. YOU'VE GOT AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP. 13:37:02 YOU'VE GOT KATRINA STILL UNDONE. WENT DUNN TO NEW ORLEANS THREE 13:37:11 WEEKS AGO. STILL LOOKS BOMBED OUT. 13:37:13 STILL NOT REBUILT. WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED, THE FEDERAL 13:37:19 GOVERNMENT HAS A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF GRANTS TO HELP REBUILD. 13:37:23 THEY WAIVED ANY REQUIREMENT THAT MANHATTAN WOULD HAVE TO PAY 10% 13:37:27 OF THE COST OF REBUILDING. WHEN HURRICANE FLORIDA -- 13:37:32 HURRICANE ANDREWS HAPPENED IN FLORIDA, 10% REQUIREMENT, THEY 13:37:36 WAIVED IT BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT SOME DISASTERS 13:37:39 ARE SO DEVASTATING THAT WE CAN'T EXPECT A COMMUNITY TO REBUILD. 13:37:46 NEW ORLEANS, THE LARGEST NATURAL CATASTROPHE IN OUR HISTORY, THE 13:37:52 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS, WHERE IS YOUR 10%? 13:37:58 THERE'S AN EMPATHY GAP. THERE'S A GAP IN TERMS OF 13:38:04 SYMPATHIZING FOR THOSE FOLKS IN NEW ORLEANS AS BAD AS 13:38:07 SYMPATHIZING WITH FOLKS ELSEWHERE. 13:38:09 IT'S NOT A GAP THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FELT BECAUSE WE SAW HOW 13:38:13 THEY RESPONDED. BUT SOMEHOW OUR GOVERNMENT 13:38:17 DIDN'T RESPOND WITH THAT SAME SENSE OF COMPASSION AND THAT 13:38:21 SAME SENSE OF KINDNESS. AND HERE'S THE WORST PART, THE 13:38:27 TRAGEDY IN NEW ORLEANS HAPPENED WELL BEFORE THE HURRICANE 13:38:32 STRUCK. BECAUSE MANY OF THOSE 13:38:34 COMMUNITIES THERE WERE SO MANY YOUNG MEN IN PRISON, SO MANY 13:38:38 KIDS DROPPING OUT, SO LITTLE HOPE, A HOPE GAP, A HOPE GAP 13:38:42 THAT STILL PERVADES TOO MANY COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE 13:38:45 COUNTRY AND RIGHT HERE IN ALABAMA. 13:38:49 SO THE QUESTION IS THEN, WHAT ARE WE THE JOSHUA GENERATION 13:38:53 DOING TO CLOSE THOSE GAPS? ARE WE DOING EVERY SINGLE THING 13:38:58 THAT WE CAN DO IN CONGRESS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT EARLY 13:39:02 EDUCATION IS ADEQUATELY FUNDED AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE 13:39:06 RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE SO IF SOMEBODY WORKS EACH AND EVERY 13:39:10 DAY THEY CAN HAVE SOME DIGNITY AND RESPECT? 13:39:12 ARE WE ENSURING IF SOMEBODY LOSES A JOB THAT THEY'RE GETTING 13:39:16 RETRAINED AND THAT IF THEY'VE LOST THEIR HEALTH CARE AND THEIR 13:39:21 PENSION THAT SOMEBODY IS THERE TO HELP THEM GET BACK ON THEIR 13:39:24 FEET? ARE WE MAKING SURE WE'RE GIVING 13:39:25 A SECOND CHANCE TO THOSE WHO HAVE STRAYED AND GONE TO PRISON 13:39:29 BUT WANT TO START A NEW LIFE? GOVERNMENT ALONE CAN'T SOLVE ALL 13:39:37 THOSE PROBLEMS, BUT GOVERNMENT CAN HELP, AND IT'S THE 13:39:41 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE JOSHUA GENERATION TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE 13:39:48 A GOVERNMENT AS RESPONSIBLE AS THE NEED EXISTS ALL ACROSS 13:39:52 AMERICA BUT THAT BRINGS ME TO ONE OTHER POINT THOUGH, JOSHUA 13:39:56 GENERATION, AND THAT IS THIS, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ENOUGH 13:40:01 JUST TO ASK WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR US, IT'S IMPORTANT 13:40:05 FOR US TO ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OURSELVES. 13:40:10 YET ONE OF THE SIGNATURE ASPECTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS 13:40:15 THE DEGREE OF DISCIPLINE AND FORTITUDE THAT WAS INSTILLED IN 13:40:21 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED. IMAGINE YOUNG PEOPLE, 16, 17, 13:40:29 20, 21 BACK STRAIGHT, EYES CLEAR, SUIT AND TIE SITTING DOWN 13:40:37 AT A LUNCH COUNTER KNOW BE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SPILL MILK 13:40:40 ON YOU BUT YOU HAVE THE DISCIPLINE TO UNDERSTAND THAT 13:40:43 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RETALIATE BECAUSE IN SHOWING THE WORLD HOW 13:40:48 DISCIPLINED WE WERE AS A PEOPLE, WE WERE ABLE TO WIN OVER THE 13:40:53 CONSCIENCE OF A NATION. I CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN THAT WE 13:41:00 HAVE INSTILLED THAT SAME SENSE OF MORAL CLARITY AND PURPOSE IN 13:41:05 THIS GENERATION. BISHOP, SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE 13:41:08 WE'VE LOST IT A LITTLE BIT. YOU KNOW, I'M FIGHTING TO MAKE 13:41:14 SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE ADEQUATELY FUNDED. 13:41:16 ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE HAVE INEQUITIES IN HOW SCHOOLS ARE 13:41:20 FUNDED BECAUSE IT'S RELIED ON PROPERTY TAXES AND PEOPLE WHO 13:41:23 HAPPEN TO BE BORN IN WEALTHY DISTRICTS, SOMEHOW THEY GET 13:41:28 BETTER SCHOOLS THAN FOLKS WHO ARE BORN IN POOR DISTRICTS AND 13:41:32 THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. 13:41:34 THAT'S NOT THE AMERICAN WAY, BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, EVEN AS I FIGHT 13:41:38 ON BEHALF OF MORE EDUCATION FUNDING, MORE EQUITY, I HAVE TO 13:41:42 ALSO SAY THAT IF PARENTS DON'T TURN OFF THE TELEVISION SET WHEN 13:41:47 THE CHILD COMES HOME FROM SCHOOL, AND MAKE SURE THEY SIT 13:41:52 DOWN AND DO THEIR HOMEWORK AND GO TALK TO THE TEACHERS AND FIND 13:41:56 OUT HOW THEY'RE DOING AND IF WE DON'T START INSTILLING A SENSE 13:41:59 IN OUR YOUNG CHILDREN, THAT THERE IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED 13:42:04 ABOUT IN EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, I DON'T KNOW WHO 13:42:07 CAUGHT THEM THAT READING AND WRITING AND CONJUGATING YOUR 13:42:11 VERBS WAS ACTING WHITE, WE'VE GOT TO GET OVER THAT MENTALITY. 13:42:14 WE'VE GOT TO DO FOR OURSEOURSEL. THAT'S PART OF WHAT THE MOSES 13:42:19 GENERATION TEACHES US, NOT SAYING TO OURSELVES WE CAN'T DO 13:42:23 SOMETHING BUT TELLING OURSELVES THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE. 13:42:27 WE CAN DO THAT. WE'VE GOT POWER IN OUR HANDS. 13:42:36 FOLKS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR GOVERNMENT. 13:42:39 I UNDERSTAND THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE COMPLAINING ABOUT. 13:42:45 I'M IN WASHINGTON. I SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 13:42:48 I SEE THOSE POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES HAVE SNUCK BACK 13:42:52 IN THERE. THAT THEY'RE WRITING THE ENERGY 13:42:55 BILLS AND THE DRUG LAWS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT. 13:42:58 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, I ALSO KNOW THAT IF COUSIN POOKIE WOULD 13:43:05 VOTE, IF UNCLE JETHRO WOULD GET OFF THE COUCH AND STOP WATCHING 13:43:12 "SPORTSCENTER" AND GO REGISTER SOME FOLKS AND GO TO THE POLLS, 13:43:15 WE MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT KIND OF POLITICS. 13:43:18 THAT'S WHAT THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US. 13:43:23 KICK OFF YOUR BEDROOM SLIPPERS, PUT ON YOUR MARCHING SHOES, GO 13:43:28 DO SOME POLITICS, CHANGE THIS COUNTRY. 13:43:30 THAT'S WHAT THEY TEACH US. WE'VE GOT TOO MANY CHILDREN IN 13:43:39 POVERTY IN THIS COUNTRY, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ASHAMED. 13:43:43 BUT DON'T TELL ME EARTH DOESN'T HAVE A LITTLE TO DO WITH THE 13:43:46 FACT THAT WE GOT TOO MANY DADDIES NOT ACTING LIKE DADDIES. 13:43:53 I THINK THAT -- THINK THAT FATHERHOOD ENDS AT CONCEPTION, I 13:43:59 KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE MY FATHER WASN'T AROUND 13:44:02 WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND I STRUGGLED. 13:44:07 THOSE OF YOU WHO READ MY BOOK KNOW. 13:44:09 I WENT THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT TIMES. 13:44:11 I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A STRONG MALE FIGURE 13:44:15 IN THE HOUSE, WHICH IS WHY THE HARDEST THING ABOUT ME BEING IN 13:44:19 POLITICS SOMETIMES IS NOT BEING HOME AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE AND I'M 13:44:22 JUST BLESSED THAT I'VE GOT SUCH A WONDERFUL WIFE AT HOME TO HOLD 13:44:26 THINGS TOGETHER, BUT DON'T TELL ME THAT WE CAN'T DO BETTER BY 13:44:36 OUR CHILDREN, THAT WE CAN'T TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE 13:44:40 WE'RE INSTILLING IN THEM THE VALUES AND THE IDEAS THAT THE 13:44:43 MOSES GENERATION TAUGHT US ABOUT SACRIFICE AND DIGNITY AND 13:44:47 HONESTY AND HARD WORK AND DISCIPLINE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. 13:44:51 THAT COMES FROM US. WE'VE GOT TO TRANSMIT THAT TO 13:44:56 THE NEXT GENERATION AND I GUESS THE POINT THAT I'M MAKE 13:44:58 SOMETHING THAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WASN'T JUST A FIGHT 13:45:03 AGAINST THE OPPRESSOR, IT WAS ALSO A FIGHT AGAINST THE 13:45:06 OPPRESSOR IN EACH OF US. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S EASY TO 13:45:12 JUST POINT AT SOMEBODY ELSE AND SAY, IT'S THERE THEIR FAULT BUT 13:45:17 OPPRESSION HAS A WAY OF CREEPING INTO YOU, REVEREND. 13:45:19 IT HAS A WAY OF STUNTING YOURSELF. 13:45:23 YOU START TELLING YOURSELF, BISHOP, I CAN'T DO SOMETHING. 13:45:27 I CAN'T READ, I CAN'T -- I CAN'T GO TO COLLEGE. 13:45:30 I CAN'T START A BUSINESS. I CAN'T RUN FOR CONGRESS. 13:45:33 I CAN'T RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, PEOPLE START TELLING YOU CAN'T 13:45:38 DO SOMETHING, AFTER A WHILE, YOU TART BELIEVING IT. 13:45:44 AND PART OF WHAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS ABOUT WAS 13:45:47 RECOGNIZING THAT WE HAVE TO TRANSFORM OURSELVES IN ORDER TO 13:45:50 TRANSFORM THE WORLD. MAHATMA GANDHI, THE GREAT HERO 13:45:57 OF DR. KING AND THE PERSON WHO HELPED CREATE THE NONVIOLENT 13:46:03 MOVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD, HE ONCE SAID THAT "YOU CAN'T CHANGE 13:46:07 THE WORLD IF YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED. 13:46:10 IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, THE CHANGE HAS TO HAPPEN WITH 13:46:13 YOU FIRST." AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE 13:46:19 GREATEST AND MOST HONORABLE OF GENERATIONS HAS TAUGHT US. 13:46:26 BUT THE FINAL THING THAT I THINK THE MOSES GENERATION TEACHES US 13:46:29 IS TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE DO WHAT WE DO BECAUSE GOD IS 13:46:35 WITH US. YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES WAS FIRST 13:46:41 CALLED TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT OF THE PROMISED LAND, HE SAID, "I DON'T 13:46:45 THINK I CAN DO IT, LORD. I DON'T SPEAK LIKE REVEREND 13:46:49 LOWERY. I DON'T -- I DON'T FEEL BRAVE 13:46:53 AND COURAGEOUS" AND THE LORD SAID "I WILL BE WITH YOU. 13:46:59 THROW DOWN THAT ROD, PICK IT BACK UP. 13:47:03 I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO." 13:47:06 AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THE JOSHUA GENERATION. 13:47:14 JOSHUA SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M SCARED. 13:47:17 I'M NOT SURE THAT I AM UP TO THE CHALLENGE, AND THE LORD SAID TO 13:47:25 HIM, EVERY PLACE THAT THE SOUL OF YOUR FOOT WILL TREAD UPON, I 13:47:31 HAVE GIVEN YOU. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I 13:47:36 AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:47:43 THAT'S A PRAYER FOR A JOURNEY, A PRAYER THAT KEPT A WOMAN IN HER 13:47:47 SEAT WHEN THE BUS DRIVER TOLD HER TO GET UP, A PRAYER THAT LED 13:47:50 NINE CHILDREN THROUGH THE DOORS OF A LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL, A 13:47:53 PRAYER THAT CARRIED OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER A BRIDGE RIGHT 13:47:57 HERE IN SELMA, ALABAMA. BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE WHEN 13:48:02 YOU SEE ROW AND ROW OF STATE TROOPER FACING YOU, YOU SEE THE 13:48:07 HORSES AND THE TEAR GAS, HOW ELSE CAN YOU WALK TOWARDS THEM 13:48:10 UNARMED AND UNAFRAID? WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU AND 13:48:13 START BEATING YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR NEIGHBORS HOW ELSE CAN YOU 13:48:17 SIMPLY KNEEL DOWN, BOW YOUR HEAD AND ASK THE LORD FOR SALVATION 13:48:20 WHEN YOU SEE HEADS GASHED OPEN AND EYES BURNING AND LITTLE 13:48:24 CHILDREN LYING HURT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WHEN YOU'RE JOHN 13:48:28 LEWIS AND YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE ON 13:48:31 SUNDAY HOW DO YOU WAKE UP ON MONDAY AND KEEP ON MARCHING? 13:48:34 BE STRONG, AND HAVE COURAGE FOR I AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. 13:48:41 WE'VE COME A LONG WAY IN THIS JOURNEY, BUT WE STILL HAVE A 13:48:46 LONG WAY TO TRAVEL. WE TRAVEL BECAUSE GOD WAS WITH 13:48:52 US. IT'S NOT HOW FAR WE'VE COME THIS 13:48:55 FAR ON OUR JOURNEY. THAT BRIDGE OUTSIDE WAS CROSSED 13:48:58 BY BLACKS AND WHITES, NORTHERNERS AND SOUTHERNERS, 13:49:01 TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN, SHOPKEEPERS AND JANITORS, A 13:49:04 BELOVED COMMUNITY OF GOD'S CHILDREN WILLING TO TAKE THOSE 13:49:07 STEPS TOGETHER. BUT IT WAS LEFT TO THE JOSHUAS 13:49:12 TO FINISH THE JOURNEY MOSES HAD BEGUN AND TODAY WE'RE CALLED TO 13:49:15 BE THE JOSHUAS OF OUR TIME, TO BE THE GENERATION THAT FINDS OUR 13:49:19 WAY ACROSS THIS RIVER, THERE WILL BE DAYS WHEN THE WATER 13:49:23 SEEMS WIDE AND THE JOURNEY TOO FAR, BUT IN THOSE MOMENTS WE 13:49:27 MUST REMEMBER THAT THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, THERE HAS BEEN A 13:49:31 RUNNING THREAD OF IDEALS THAT HAVE GUIDED OUR TRAVELS AND 13:49:35 PUSHED US FORWARD EVEN WHEN THEY'RE JUST BEYOND OUR REACH, 13:49:40 LIBERTY IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY, EQUALITY IN THE FACE OF BITTER 13:49:44 INJUSTICE, OPPORTUNITY WHERE THERE WAS NONE AND HOPE OVER THE 13:49:46 MOST CRUSHING DE SPARE, THOSE IDEALS, THOSE VALUES, THEY 13:49:50 BECKON US STILL, AND WHEN WE HAVE OUR DOUBTS AND OUR FEARS, 13:49:53 JUST LIKE JOSHUA DID, WHEN THE ROAD LOOKS TOO LONG AND IT SEEMS 13:49:57 LIKE WE MAY LOSE OUR WAY, REMEMBER WHAT THESE PEOPLE DID 13:50:01 ON THAT BRIDGE, KEEPING YOUR H 13:50:07 HEART, THE PRAYER OF THAT JOURNEY, THE PRAYER THAT GOD 13:50:09 GAVE TO JOSHUA, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF 13:50:16 INJUSTICE, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE IN THE FACE OF PREJUDICE 13:50:21 AND HATRED, IN THE FACE OF JOBLESSNESS AND HELPLESSNESS AND 13:50:28 HOPELESSNESS, BE STRONG AND HAVE COURAGE. 13:50:30 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED TODAY IN THE FACE 13:50:34 OF OUR DOUBTS AND FEARS, IN THE FACE OF SKEPTICISM, IN THE FACE 13:50:39 OF CYNICISM, IN THE FACE OF A MIGHTY RIVER, BE STRONG AND HAVE 13:50:44 COURAGE AND LET US CROSS OVER THAT PROMISED LAND TOGETHER. 13:50:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY. GOD BLESS YOU. END SENATOR BARACK OBAMA