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good luck. well, we pause and give praise and honor to god for being good enough to allow us to be at this place, at this time. when i look out at this convention, i see the face of america red, yellow, brown, black and white. we are all precious in god's sight. the real rainbow coalition, all of us. all of us who are here, think that we are seated where we really are standing on someone's shoulders. ladies and gentlemen, mrs. rosa parks. the mother of the civil rights

movement. i want to express my deep love and appreciation for the support my family has given me over these past months. we have endured pain, anxiety, threat and fear. but we have been strengthened and made secure by our faith in god in america and the new your

love has protected us and made us strong. the my jacket, the foundation of our family to our five children whom you met tonight. to my mother, mrs. helen jackson was present tonight to our grandmother, mrs. matilda burns. my brother chuck and his family. to my mother in law, mrs. gertrude brown, who just last month at age 6 to 1, graduated from hampton institute. a marvelous achievement. i offer my appreciation to mayor andrew young, who has provided such a gracious hospital lighting to all of us this week and a special salute to president jimmy carter. president carter.

president carter restored honor to the white house after watergate. he gave many of us a special opportunity to grow for his kind words was unwavering commitment to peace in the world and for the voters that came from his family. every member of his family led by billy and amy. i'll put my special thanks to the carter family. for my right and my privilege to stand here before you has been one one in my lifetime by the blood and the sweat of the innocent. 24 years ago, the late finally lou hammer and aaron henry, who

sits here tonight from mississippi, were locked out onto the streets in atlantic city. the head of the mississippi freedom democratic party. but tonight, a black and white delegation from mississippi is headed by ed cole, a black man from mississippi. 24 years later. many were lost in the struggle for the right to vote. jimmy lee jackson, a young student, gave his life rather than weak soul. a white mother from detroit call -- lover and brains blown out at point blank range surrounded goodman and chaney, two -- and a black found in the common grave, but as rubber bullets in mississippi before darling little girls in the church in birmingham, alabama.

they died. and we might have a right to live. dr. martin luther king junior lives on long a few miles from us tonight. tonight he must feel good as he looks down upon us. we sit here together. a rainbow coalition. the songs and daughters of slave masters and the sons and daughters of slave. sitting together around the common table to the side of the direction of our party and our country. his heart would be full tonight as a testament to the struggles of those who have gone before. as a legacy for those who will come after. as a tribute to the endurance, the. patience, the courage of our forefathers and mothers. as an assurance that their prayers are being answered. their work has not been in vain and the hope is eternal.

the moral night. my name will go on nomination for the presidency of the united states of america. we meet tonight at the crossroads. a point of decision. shall we expand, be inclusive, find unity and power ourself with a vision. and if attacks, we come to atlanta. the cradle of the old south, the crucible of the new south. tonight, there is a sense of celebration because we have moved fundamental and more from racial battle. the browns by law to economic common ground. the moral challenge to move to higher ground. common ground. think of jerusalem, the

intersection of trails met a small village that became the birth place for three great religions judaism, christianity and islam. why was this village so blessed? because it provided a crossroads for different people met different cultures, different civilizations could meet and find common ground. when people come together, flowers always flourish. the air is rich with the aroma of a new spring. take new york. the dynamic metropolis is what makes new york so special. you're seeing petition at the statue of liberty. give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, not restrict it to english. only. many people, many cultures. many languages with one thing in

common that yearn to breathe free. common ground denied in the letter for the first time in the century, reconvened in the south. if state where us once stood in schoolhouse doors. well, julian bond was an author seat in the state legislature because of his conjectures. objection to the vietnam war, a city that, through its five black universities has graduated more black students than in the city in the world. atlanta now a modern intersection of the new south common ground. that's the challenge of our party tonight. left wing. right wing. progress will not come through. boundless liberals, liberalism, nostalgic conservatism. whether the critical mass of mutual survival, not at

boundless liberalism. master that conservatism, but at the critical mass of mutual survival. it takes two wings to fly. coiffure, hawk or dove? you're just a bird living in the same environment, in the same world. the bible teaches that when lions and lambs lie down together, no one will be afraid. and there will be peace in the valley. it sounds impossible. lions eat lambs and lambs respectively, from lions and even lions and lambs. find common ground. why? because neither lionel. lambs want the forest to catch on fire. neither lions for lambs will acid rain to fall near the lions. the lambs can survive nuclear war. if lions and lambs can find

common ground. surely we can as well as civilized people. the only time that we win is when we come together. in 1960. john kennedy, the late john kennedy beat richard nixon by only 112,000 votes less than one vote for precinct one by the margin of our hope. well, let's together. he reached out. he had the courage to defy his advisers and inquire about dr. king's jailing in albany, georgia. we won by the margin of our

hope, inspired by courageous leadership. in 1964, lyndon johnson brought both wings together. the thesis antithesis and the creative synthesis. and together we won in 1976. jimmy carter unified us again. and we won. when we do not come together, we never win. in 1968, the vision and the spirit in july led to our defeat. in november. in 1980, recalling in the spring and the summer lay at the reagan in the fall. when we divide, we cannot win. we must find common ground as a basis for survival and the build up myth and change and grow.

the day when we debated differed, deliberated, agreed to agree, agreed to disagree. when we had the good judgment to argue a case and then not self-destruct. george bush just a little further away from the white house and a little closer at the private life. tonight, i salute governor michael dukakis. he has run. he has run the well managed, a dignified campaign, no matter

how tired or how tried. he always resisted the temptation to stupid demagoguery. i've watched a good man fast at work steal nerves, guiding his campaign out of the crowd at three, all without appeal to the worst in us. i've watched his perspective grow as his environment has expanded. i've seen this toughness and the nasty close up know his commitment to public service. mike dukakis parents run. doctor and a teacher. my parents made the beautician and the janitor. there's a great gap between brookline, massachusetts and hanna street. the field village housing projects in greenville, south carolina. he studied law. i studied theology. the difference is that religion, religion and race differences and experience is and

perspectives. but the genius of america is that out of the minute, we become one. providence has enabled our paths to intersect. chris for parents came to america on immigrant ships. my poor parents came to america on slave ships with whatever the original ships were in the same boat the night. our ships could pass in the

night. if we had the false sense of independence, they could collide and crash. we would lose our passengers. but we can seek a higher reality and the greater good apart we can drift on the broken pieces of reaganomics. satisfied our basic instincts and export the fears of our people at the highest. we can call upon noble instinct and navigate this vessel to safety. but the good is the common good. as jesus said, not my will. but then be done. it was his way of saying there was a higher good beyond personal comfort. opposition. the good of our nation is at stake. its commitment to working men and women to the poor and the vulnerable, to the many in the

world. with so many got it. missiles, so much misguided leadership. the stakes are exceedingly high. our choice for participation in a democratic government are more abandonment and neglect. and so this night we choose not a false sense of independence, but our capacity to survive and endure. tonight, we choose interdependency and our capacity to act and unite for the greater good, common good is found in commitment to new priorities, to expansion and inclusion and commitment to expand and participate passion in the democratic party at every level. but a commitment to a shared national campaign strategy and involvement at every level. a commitment to new priorities that ensure that the hope will be kept alive.

a common ground commitment to a legislated agenda for empowerment with a john conyers bill. universal owns site. same day registration. everywhere. a commitment to d.c. statehood and empower ment. b.c. deserves statehood. and a commitment to economic set aside. a commitment to the dellums bill for comprehensive sanctions against south africa. a shared commitment to a common direction. common ground. easier said than done. what do you find? common ground at the point of

challenge? this campaign has shown that politics need not be marketed by politicians, packaged by pollsters and pundits. politics can be a moral arena where people come together to find common ground. we find common ground that the plant gate that closes on the work goes without notice. we find common ground at the farm auction. well, good. farmer loses his or her land to bad loans or diminishing markets. common ground at the school yard. what teachers cannot get adequate pay and students cannot get a scholarship and can't make a loan. common ground at the hospital. the meeting room where somebody tonight is dying because they cannot afford to go upstairs to a bed that's empty, waiting for someone with insurance to get

sick. we are better nation than that. we must do better. common ground. what is leadership? if not present help in a time of crisis. so i met you at the point of challenge in jay, maine. paper workers were striking for fair wages in greenville, iowa, where family farmers struggle for a fair price. in cleveland, ohio, where working women seek comfortable work in their fallen california. well, it showed that other spanish farm workers may be dying from paws and land, dying in clusters with cancer and aids hospice in houston, texas, for the sick, support one another 12 rejected by their own parents and friends.

common ground. america's not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. when i was a child growing up in greenville, south carolina, and grandmamma could not afford a blanket, she didn't complain that we did not freeze. instead, she took pieces of old cloth patches, wool, silk, gabardine, croaker sack on the patches barely good enough to wipe off your shoes with. but they didn't stay that way very long. the the hands on the strong caught. she sold them together into a quilt. a thing of beauty and power and culture. now, democrats, we must build such a quilt. farmers, you seek farm prices, and you are right. but you can not stand the law.

your patch is not big enough. workers, you fight for fair wages. you are right. but your patch labor is not big enough. women you see crop about worth and pay equity. you are right. but your patch is not big enough. women are mothers who can't start and they care. and prenatal care on the front side of life rather than childcare and welfare on the backs of life. you are right, but your patch is not big enough. students you think scholarships. you are right. but your patch is not big enough. blocks and hispanics. when we fight for civil rights. we are right. but our patch is not big enough. gays and lesbians. when you fight against

discrimination and a cure for aids, you are right. but your patch is not big enough. conservatives and progressive. when you fight for what you believe. right wing. left wing. how so? you are right. from your point of view, what's your point of view? it's not enough. but don't despair. be. be as wise as my grandmother put you on the patches and the pieces together, bound by common thread. when we form a great quilt of unity and common ground, we all have the power to bring about how care and housing and jobs and education and hope to our nation. we the people can win.

we stand at the end of a long, dark night of reaction. we stand tonight united and the commitment for a new direction. for almost eight years, we've been led by those who view social good coming from private interests, who view public life as a means to increase private wealth. they have been prepared to sacrifice the common good of the minute to satisfy the private interests and the wealth of a few. we believe in a government

that's a tool of our democracy and service to the public, not an instrument of the aristocracy. in search of private. well. we believe in government. with the consent of the governed. all for and by the people we must that emerge into a new day with a new direction. reaganomics based on the belief that the rich had too much money. too little money, and the poor had too much. that's classic reaganomics. it believed that the poor had too much money and the rich had too little money. so they engaged in reverse. robin hood took from the poor, gave the rich, paid for by the middle class, weak cannot stand four more years. reagan nomics and in their version and then at this guy's.

how that document that case seven years later the richest 1% of our society pays 20% less in taxes. but poorest 10% pay 20% more. reaganomics. reagan gave the rich and the powerful a multibillion dollar party. now the party is over. he expects the people to pay for the damage. i take this principled position, conviction. let us not raise taxes on the poor and the middle class. but those who had the party, the rich and the powerful, must pay for the party.

i just want to take common sense. the high places will spending. $150 billion a year defending europe and japan. 43 years after the war is over, we have more troops in europe tonight than we had seven years ago. yet the threat of war is ever more remote. germany and japan are not creditor nations. that means they've got a surplus. we are a debtor. nation means we are in debt. let them share more of the burden of their own defense. use some of that money. the build decent housing. use some of that money to educate our children. use some of that money.

but long term, how can you sound that money to out the slums and put america back to work. i just want to take common sense to high places. we can bail out europe and japan. we can bailout, call no bank and chrysler and mr. iacocca make. $8,000 an hour. we can bail out the family farmer. i just want to make common sense. it does not make sense to close

down. 650,000 family farms in this country while importing food from abroad subsidized by the us government. less makes sense. it does not make sense. the biggest guarding oil. take us up and down the persian paying to fifth for every one dollars worth of oil. we bring out. while all where the cap in texas, oklahoma and louisiana i just want to make sense. leadership. must meet the moral challenge of its day. what's the moral challenge? our day. we have public accommodation. we have the right to vote.

we have open housing. what's the fundamental challenge of our day? it is to end economic violence, black clothing without notice, economic violence. in the gritty do not lone from greed. economic violence. most poor people are not lazy. they are not black. they are not brown. that most of white and female. and young. but whether white, black or brown. a hungry baby bear turned inside out is the same color. call it pain. call it hurt. call it agony. most people another welfare. some of them are illiterate and can't read the worn out sections

when they can. they can't find a job that matches the address. they work hard every day. i know. i live amongst them. i'm one of them. i know they work. i'm a witness. they catch the bus. they work every day. they raise other people's children. they work everyday. they clean the streets. they work everyday. they drive dangerous cabs. they work everyday. they change the. you slept in in these hotels last night. and can't get a union contract. they work every day. no. no. they are not lazy. someone must defend them because. that's right. they cannot speak for themselves. they work in hospitals.

i know they do. they wipe the bodies of those who are sick with fever and pain. they emptied their bedpans. they clean up the commode. no job is beneath them. and yet, when they get sick, they cannot lie in the bed they made up every day. america, that is not right. we better nation than that. we are better nation than that. we need a real war on drugs. you can't just say no. it's deeper than that. you can't just get a poem read on astrology. it's more profound than that.

we are spending. $150 billion on drugs a year. we've gone from ignoring it to focusing on the children. children cannot buy our britain $50 billion worth of drugs a year. a few high profile athlete athletes have not loved the ring. a hardened $50 billion a year bankers are. i met the children in what? who? unfortunately, in their despair, their grapes of hope have become raised to despair and they are turning on each other and their self-destruct thing. well, i stayed with them all night long. i wanted to hear their case.

they said yes to jackson. as you challenge us to say no to drugs. you're right. and not sell them. you're right. not use these gone. you're right. by the way, the promise of scepter that this place that they did not replace. we all need the jobs, not houses, not services, not training. no way out. some of us take as anesthesia for our pain. some take drugs as a way of pleasure. but short term pleasure and long term pain. some sell drugs to make money. it's wrong, we know, but you need to know that we know. we can go and buy the drugs buy the boxes at the port. we can buy the drugs. the port. but you believe the federal government can stop it if they

want to. they say we don't started the mac specials in the more they said we buy ak seven and those of the latest make the weapons we buy them across the counter along this boulevard. you can not fight a war on drugs unless until you go tell the bankers and the gun tellers and those who grow them. don't just focus on the children. let's stop drugs at the level of and demand. we must end the scourge on american culture. and leave the ship. what difference will we make?

leadership cannot just go along to get along. we must do more than change presidents. we must change direction. leadership must face the moral challenge of our day. the nuclear war build up is irrational, strong leadership cannot desire to look tough and let that stand in the way of the pursuit of peace. leadership must reverse the arms race, at least we should pledge more fresh use. why the cost pressure? using the gas for us? retaliation. and that's mutual immolation. that's not a rational way out. no use. appalled. let's think it out and not put it out because it's an unwinnable fight. why hold a card that you can

never drop? let's give peace a chance. leadership will not have this marvelous opportunity to have a breakthrough with the soviets. last year, 200,000 americans visited the soviet union. that's a chance for joint ventures in the space, not stuff for wars and the war on escalation, but a space defense initiative. let's build in the space together and the military. lives to happen. that's the way out. america, let us expand. when mr. reagan and mr. gorbachev met, it was a big meeting. they represented together one eighth of the human race separated. the human race was locked out of that room. most people in the world tonight, half are asian, one half of them are chinese. that's one of two mentioned in

the middle east. that's europe, 1.8 million latin americans next door to us, the caribbean, africa, half billion people, mostly in the world today. a yellow, a brown, a black man, christian, poor female, young and don't speak english in the real world. this generation must offer leadership to the real world. well, losing ground in latin america, middle east, africa, because we're not focusing on the real world. that's the real world. we must use basic principles, support international law, which that the most to gain from it. support human rights. we believe in that. support south of termination. we'll build on that. support economic development. you know it's right. be consistent and gain our moral authority in the world. i challenge you tonight, my friends. let's be bigger and better as.

a nation and as a party. we have basic challenges. freedom in south africa. we've already agreed as democrats to class south africa to be a terrorist state. but don't just stop there. get south africa out of end. goal. free namibia. support the frontline states. we must have a new, humane human rights policy in africa. i'm often asked that's say, why do you take on these tough issues? they are not very political. we can't win that way.

if an issue is morally right. it will eventually be political. it may be political and never be right. fannie lou hamer didn't have the most votes in atlantic city, but the principles have lasted. delegate who voted the lock out. rosa parks did not have the most votes, but she was morally right. the king can have the most votes about the vietnam war, but he was morally right. if we are of all first our politics will fall in place. jess, why do you take these big, bold initiatives? a poor man. i know now that when something like this we mastered the air, we've conquered the sea, annihilated dishes and prolong life. but we're not wise enough to live on this earth without war and without hate. ask for jesse jackson. i'm tired of sailing my little

boat for inside the harbor bar. i want to go out with the big ships, float out on the deep with a great one's, on and shook my frail craft proved to slight but wave to sweep those below us or i'd rather go down in the stirring fight, then drown sit there at the shelf, show up. we've got to go out, my friends, for the big boat. talk. and then for our children. young america. hold your head high now we can win. we must not lose to the drugs and violence. premature pregnancies, suicide, cynicism, pessimism and despair.

we can win. where were you all tonight? i challenge you to. hope and the dream. don't submerge your dreams. exercise. above all else. even on drug dream of the day you are drug free, even in the gutter. dream of the day that you'll be all up on your feet again you must never stop dreaming. face reality. yes, but don't stop with the way things are. all dream of things as they ought to be. dream, face. pain. but love. hope. faith and dreams will help you rise above the pain you hope and imagination as weapons of survival and progress. but you keep on dreaming, young america. dream of peace, peace is rational and reasonable about what is irrational in this age and unwinnable dream of teach us

who teach for life and not for living. dream of doctors will consign more about public help and private wealth. dream of lawyers more concerned about justice on the judgeship. dream a preacher focused more about prophecy than profiteer. dream on the high road sound values and then america seek to go forth the september, october, november and then the ameri america must never surrender to a high moral challenge. do not surrender to drugs. the best drug policy is a no for us. use no surrender with needles and cynicism. let's have more fresh use. on the one hand, our clinics on the other never surrender. young america, go forward. america must never surrender to malnutrition.

we can feed the hungry and clothe the naked. we must never surrender. we must go forward. we must never surrender to illiteracy, invest in our children, never surrender and go forward. we must never surrender in equality. women cannot compromise. he are a comfortable word. women are making six $0.02 on the dollar. that what a man makes. women cannot buy meat when they cannot buy bread cheaper. when they cannot buy milk cheaper. women deserve to get paid for the work that you do. it's right. and the spam. no to render my friends. go to have aids tonight you deserve our compassion. give with aids. you must not surrender in your

wheelchairs. i see you sitting here tonight in those wheelchairs. i stayed with you. i reached out to you across our nation. don't you give up? i know it's tough. sometimes people look down on you. it took a lot more effort to get here tonight. and no one should look down on you. but sometimes mean people do you only justification we have for looking down on someone is that we're going to stop and pick them up. but even your wheelchairs, don't you give up. we cannot forget 50 years ago when our battle against the wall, roosevelt was in the wheelchair. i would rather have rules about in a wheelchair. reagan and bush on a horse. but you surrender and don't you give up. don't surrender and don't give up. why? i can now challenge you this

way. yes, sir. jackson, you're the one to stay in my situation. you be on television. you're the one to stand. i see you. the big people. you. you don't understand my situation. i understand you see me on tv, but you don't know the me that makes me. me. they they want wonder what does. yes, iran. because they see me running for the white house. they don't see the house running from. i have a story. i was not always on television. right? right. this one always outside my door. and i was born late one afternoon, october eight, in greenville, south carolina. no writers asked my mother her

name. nobody chose to write down our address. a momma was not supposed to make it, and i was not supposed to make it. you see, i was born a teenage mother who was born a teenage mother. i understand. i know. abandonment and people being mean to you and saying you're nothing and nobody and can never be in the thing. i understand. jesse jackson. is my third name. i'm adopted it when i had no name, my grandmother gave me her name. my name was jesse burned till i was 12 so i wouldn't have a blank space. she gave me a name, the whole me over on the stand for nobody

knows your name. i understand when you have no name on the stand. i wasn't born in the hospital. mama didn't have insurance. i was born in the bad head house. i really do understand. born in the three room house, bathroom in the backyard, slop job by the bed. no hot and cold running water on the stand. wallpaper used for decoration? no, but windbreaker. on the stand. i'm a working person's person. that's why on the send you whether you are black or white on the stand work. i was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. i had the civil program for my

hand. my mother, a working woman. so in the day she went to work early, my riding in the stockings she no better mesirow i'd rather have stockings so that my brother not could have met and sucked and not be laughed at his school. on the stand at 3:00 on thanksgiving day. couldn't eat turkey because mom was a pan. someone else's is turkey. at 3:00 we had to play a football field to train ourselves in the other. around 6:00 she would get off the bus and we would bring up the leftovers and it turkey left it over the carcass, the cranberries around 8:00 at night i do understand every one of these funny labels they put on you, those of you who are watching this broadcast at night in the projects on the call, i understand and call you out cast low down. you came make it you're nothing.

you have nobody supply on the class when you see jesse jackson with my name goes in nomination your name goes in nomination. i was born in the slum, but the slum was not born in me and the one born in you. and you can make it wherever you are tonight. you can make it hold head high, stick your chest out you can make it it get stopped. sometimes. but the morning comes don't you surrender suffering breeze character, character free space in the end, faith or not support you must not surrender you may or may not get back but just know that you are qualified and you hold and hold out. we must never surrender. america will get better and better keep hope alive keep hope

alive, keep hope alive oh tomorrow night and beyond keep hope alive i love you very much i love you very much.

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