Cory Booker
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So she worked to organize, help organize the March on Washington, manned a booth on the mall, helping people who needed housing if they couldn't get transportation back to where they drove in from, bused in from.
And she told me that the remarkable thing about that day for her, besides the fact that most people forget that it was about, there were more pillars that day about economic justice than about racial justice. But what she said was remarkable that day is that when Martin Luther King had his moment, he did not unfurl a list of grievances against the demagogues of the day.
And she told me that the remarkable thing about that day for her, besides the fact that most people forget that it was about, there were more pillars that day about economic justice than about racial justice. But what she said was remarkable that day is that when Martin Luther King had his moment, he did not unfurl a list of grievances against the demagogues of the day.
And she told me that the remarkable thing about that day for her, besides the fact that most people forget that it was about, there were more pillars that day about economic justice than about racial justice. But what she said was remarkable that day is that when Martin Luther King had his moment, he did not unfurl a list of grievances against the demagogues of the day.
He didn't talk about George Wallace and his darkness. He didn't talk about You know, Bull Connor, he took this moment where children were dying in church bombings, where people were getting beaten on their marches and on their freedom rides with billy clubs.
He didn't talk about George Wallace and his darkness. He didn't talk about You know, Bull Connor, he took this moment where children were dying in church bombings, where people were getting beaten on their marches and on their freedom rides with billy clubs.
He didn't talk about George Wallace and his darkness. He didn't talk about You know, Bull Connor, he took this moment where children were dying in church bombings, where people were getting beaten on their marches and on their freedom rides with billy clubs.
We know Bloody Sunday, the rhetoric of those days speaks to the horrors that blacks were experiencing and many whites who were sitting in solidarity with them, like Goodman, Cheney and Schwerner, black, white, Christian and Jewish who died together in Mississippi. Amidst all of that, King stands up and does not simply speak to the darkness.
We know Bloody Sunday, the rhetoric of those days speaks to the horrors that blacks were experiencing and many whites who were sitting in solidarity with them, like Goodman, Cheney and Schwerner, black, white, Christian and Jewish who died together in Mississippi. Amidst all of that, King stands up and does not simply speak to the darkness.
We know Bloody Sunday, the rhetoric of those days speaks to the horrors that blacks were experiencing and many whites who were sitting in solidarity with them, like Goodman, Cheney and Schwerner, black, white, Christian and Jewish who died together in Mississippi. Amidst all of that, King stands up and does not simply speak to the darkness.
He ignites a vision of America that was so compelling and inspired the moral imagination, not just of Democrats of the day, but of all Americans. This is one of those moments. And I'll tell you, Shiva is the god of destruction, but in the Hindu faith is revered because you cannot have rebirth and renewal without the god of destruction and
He ignites a vision of America that was so compelling and inspired the moral imagination, not just of Democrats of the day, but of all Americans. This is one of those moments. And I'll tell you, Shiva is the god of destruction, but in the Hindu faith is revered because you cannot have rebirth and renewal without the god of destruction and
He ignites a vision of America that was so compelling and inspired the moral imagination, not just of Democrats of the day, but of all Americans. This is one of those moments. And I'll tell you, Shiva is the god of destruction, but in the Hindu faith is revered because you cannot have rebirth and renewal without the god of destruction and
And King, in that moral moment, didn't say America is lost, called America to find its way back to its North Star. And so I think that that's the other half of this moment, was we have to check Donald Trump everywhere. We have to amass the urgency amongst more good people who are doing not enough, including myself.
And King, in that moral moment, didn't say America is lost, called America to find its way back to its North Star. And so I think that that's the other half of this moment, was we have to check Donald Trump everywhere. We have to amass the urgency amongst more good people who are doing not enough, including myself.
And King, in that moral moment, didn't say America is lost, called America to find its way back to its North Star. And so I think that that's the other half of this moment, was we have to check Donald Trump everywhere. We have to amass the urgency amongst more good people who are doing not enough, including myself.
It is about the fight, but it's also about in this moment more than any other moment, We need to start talking about who America is and will be on the other side of this darkness. What's compelling us? Because too many people have given up on the idea of America. Too many people don't believe in the promise of America. We do not feel the kind of common calling and common cause.
It is about the fight, but it's also about in this moment more than any other moment, We need to start talking about who America is and will be on the other side of this darkness. What's compelling us? Because too many people have given up on the idea of America. Too many people don't believe in the promise of America. We do not feel the kind of common calling and common cause.
It is about the fight, but it's also about in this moment more than any other moment, We need to start talking about who America is and will be on the other side of this darkness. What's compelling us? Because too many people have given up on the idea of America. Too many people don't believe in the promise of America. We do not feel the kind of common calling and common cause.
And I think this is the very time that we need to also be talking to that as well.