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" ... breaking down barriers ... "
“ … Every child and
every family in America deserves clean air to breathe, clean water to
drink and a safe and healthy place to live. This a justice issue.
It’s a civil rights issue. And as President, it will be a national
priority for us.
So my friends, throughout
this campaign, and then as President, I’m going to keep fighting to
break down all the barriers holding back every American. My door will
always be open to you. You will always have a friend and a partner in
the White House.
See, I believe that
Democrats have a special obligation. If we’re going to ask
African-Americans to vote for us, we can’t take you or your vote
for granted.
We can’t just show up at
election time and say the right things and think that’s enough.
We can’t start building
relationships a few weeks before a vote.
We have to demonstrate a
sustained commitment to building opportunity, creating prosperity and
righting wrongs – not just every two or four years, not just when
the cameras are on and people are watching, but every single day.
I have worked on these causes all my adult life. I’m going to keep
going at it no matter what.
And I want to close today
by paying tribute to some extraordinary women who are here with us –
who inspire me every day to fight harder, work longer, and never,
ever give up.
You heard their names,
when Reverend Sharpton introduced them, but I’ve gotten to know
some of them personally, and have had the great honor of spending
time with them.
Gwen Carr from here in New
York, the mother of Eric Garner, who was stopped for selling loose
cigarettes on the street and ended up dead.
Sybrina Fulton, the mother
of Trayvon Martin, shot and killed in Florida just for walking
through the development where his own father lived.
Valerie Bell, mother of
Sean Bell, shot and killed by police here in New York on the morning
of his wedding day.
And Nicole Bell, his
fiancee who would have married Sean that fateful day.
All these women and the
others who are here, the family members of those who have been lost,
not only by police action but by gun violence of any kind, anywhere.
The man who killed Trayvon Martin should have never had a gun in the
first place. All of these women and other family members have endured
unimaginable pain. I look at them and wonder whether I would have
been that strong and resilient.
Their grief is
unimaginable but they have not been broken. Instead, they are
channeling their sorrow into a strategy and their mourning into a
movement.
They are standing up for
criminal justice reform and they are standing up against the epidemic
of gun violence that takes on average, 90 people a day. That is
33,000 people a year killed by guns in America, every year.
Now, my opponent, who will
be speaking to you tomorrow, and I don’t see this the same
way. But, I think this is a national
emergency and I’m going to do
everything I can to take on the gun lobby and to try to save lives,
the lives of the children of women like this and the sisters and the
brothers and the daughters and the sons of so many others.
And I will work as hard as
I can as your President to keep faith with them for police reform and
demanding a criminal justice system that actually delivers justice.
They’re living what the
Scripture tells us: “Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in
due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”
These are words to live by
and I believe these are words to govern by. Think of the future
we can build if we work together and don’t grow weary doing good.
The men on both sides of me have not grown weary. This organization
has not grown weary. It is our obligation and our challenge not to
grow weary either until every American has the dignity, the justice,
and the opportunity they deserve.
That’s the future we
should want for our children and our country. That’s why I’m
asking for your support in this election, starting on the primary on
Tuesday. And that’s why we will roll up our sleeves and we will get
results that will make us proud to be standing together for the kind
of future that every child in this country deserves to have. Thank
you and God bless you.” … “
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