in christ -- warriors in christ. [applause] i stand here before you, a fourth-generation pastor. my father was in world war ii

and come to give honor to god where honor is due. that is my dream. [applause] that all people will come to

know jesus christ as our lord and savior. at this time, we are here to honor pastor jack said. will you give the lord a hand of praise. [applause] ♪ ♪ [applause] >> to this most magnificent audience, that god brought us

here through this great young servant of god, son of god, glenn beck. [applause] not only him but all of the new -- all of you, some 48 years ago, writer here beyond the fence, i stood as a young man who was led here by god and martin luther king. i stood right over there. [applause] my first hit -- my first trip here to washington and on a bus to go through mississippi. they promised us they would blow the bus up. dr. martin luther king preached, "i have a dream."

[applause] let me say this. then i will get out of your hair. god sent his son to the earth so that we could all gather. that is the dream and the vision of glenn beck. you will have to wonder what was the audience participation, what will they give back? i saw glenn beck's is alive tears. -- eyes full of tears.

what would jesus, if he stood here right now, what would be expected of this great audience? where you stand, you will see there were three women in the ministry of jesus christ. there were many men and many churches but there were three classical women who stood out in his ministry just like you stand out in the ministry of dr. glenn beck. one of those women came and said she gave all she had which was two mice. we call them the widow mice.

she gave them as a gift when jesus gave the offering. she gave all and she had. it was so powerful until jesus stock to the offering and said, "this woman will be remembered because her name is written down in the book of life." you did not come for nothing. you came to give your gift which would be a gift of yourself. this woman gave the best she had which was a box of

alignment. she anointed jesus's feet. can you imagine? this women did not anoint his hands but what? his feet. she took her hair and wide -- wiped his feet clean. what a great gift. jesus said, "this shall be remembered," because she gave him the resurrection before he even died. you can do the same. you can pray, give the best you have for a young man named glenn beck. [applause] thirdly, as i close, there was another great woman just like year. -- just like you. she was not jewish.

she was great. she was a gentile. -- she was greek. she was not supposed to be in the crowd. she followed jesus on behalf of her daughter who had an unclean spirit. they did not have any money. god's son, jesus christ, said it he had not seen the kind of faith in her as he had seen in the israelites. even the disciples told her she was not included. she spoke to jesus in a bidding voice. he ignored her and would not say a word. when jesus spoke, he said,

"should i take the bread of the table of the children and give it to a dog"? she did not get upset. she did not panic. she said, "you are right, but even the dog is beautiful." is anyone here living on the cross? people come from iraq, afghanistan on different legs. they can give all they have. feed the dog underneath the table. i want to thank glenn beck to give a man who does not deserve to be here, who quit school in the 10th grade.

and i did not stop. i have a bachelor degree, a ph.d., and a doctorate of law because god would not let me stop. he fed me underneath the table. [applause] he told me how god blessed him so and how he wanted to see all of the children. he said he went to a town and took a company that had been bankrupt. he took the company and gave 300 some people giving them a job, beating a person with a dog's appetite. thank you for letting me come. thank you for this reward. i do not deserve this honor.

i am honored to my dying day. thank you. thank you. thank you. [applause] >> hope, the parent of both bait and charity -- faith and charity. it gives lights to a difficult place. without hope, the light shining through the bleakest of times, we die. hope is our eternal flame.

for hope to be real, it must be bathed in truth and daughter. without it, hope is nothing more than an empty wish. our history is full of brilliant men and women whose integrity and courage gave birth to this glorious republic, men whose actions radiated hopes to run this entire land of ours. where have they gone? what happened to truth? what happened to honor? what happened to the individuals who do the right thing, the hard thing even when no one is watching? we need leaders to give our children something to hope for, to help in. we must restore, not transform, those values, those principles,

the freedom to defines who we are, who we have always been -- america, the beautiful, the land of the flurry of, the home -- the land of the free, the home of the brave. the shining beacon, the city on the hill for the whole world to see. that is our truth, that is our hope. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, here to present the badge of merit or hope, tony la russa. >> good morning. [applause] wow. what a view. before i get to the award, i want to thank the line and his

team for a few things. -- i want to thank glenn and his team. his organization, the special warriors foundation. i did not know about them until recently. it is an incredible organization. i am pleased to get to know them and will forever support them as you all are doing. thank you. i also want to thank glenn and his team for this contest. it is invigorating to hear what has been done so far. my responsibility is to introduce this year's hope award recipient. what does the hope award represent? the essence is a commitment to

honesty, integrity, and truth and trust. they exemplify this through their personal and professional lives. success is hard earned. an award winner will have confronted challenges, adversity, failure, refused to give in, and determined to influence the outcome the matter what he or she faces. these of the qualities we often defined as a hero. in reality, i think most of us will agree that real-life heroes are hard to find.

in fact, to many, and especially the young people, our heroes are a product of movies, television, and fiction books.

♪ [applause] >> thank you very much. i am very honored and humbled to be here today. i want to thank glenn for giving me the opportunity to be here and share with you guys not just the baseball, like tony said, but the things we do off the field with a lot of people do not get to see. i just want to thank god for giving me the platform as a baseball player. [applause] i believe it is more than a platform. i believe is more than being a baseball player. my job as a believer is to share the gospel of jesus christ. [applause] obviously there are so many people i need to think for this award or shared the award with. one of them is here today, my wife deidre. she is standing back there. also, my family. people back in st. louis who run my family foundation. they work so hard. thank you. they work so hard to make our foundation the best and i think them for that. -- thank them for that.

our job with the foundation is to be involved in kids with down syndrome and adults with down syndrome as well as going back to the dominican republic with a mission trip to give back. we cannot forget where we come from. [applause] as long as i am alive, i will continue to do the best that i can to represent jesus christ because 12 years ago i made the best decision of my life and that was following jesus christ. thank you so much and god bless you. [applause]

>> give me your tired, your poor, your masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse from your teeming shore. send these, the homeless from the tempest tossed to me. i lift my lamp beside the golden door. these are the words forever etched on the tablet of america's most iconic symbol, the statue of liberty. freedom, an opportunity, offered with no expectation of anything in return. that is charity. that is america. that is america's charity. charity is loved. it is selfless, pure, and an integral part of the foundation that our nation is built on. our founding fathers sought life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as a natural right, an invasion where each country will be mindful of one another. the proof is boldly written in

the declaration of independence. all men are created equal. they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. almost everyone needs a hand at some point or another. we all have or we all will. throughout our history, we, the people, have reached out to meet the needs that we saw around us now because someone told us to but because it was the right thing to do. america's charity, our compassion for others has always been the backbone of our country. there was a time when families took care of their own. neighbors helped neighbors and churches were there for those who have nowhere else to turn. benjamin franklin said, "mankind are all of a family." today, the true meaning of charity has been lost.

charity is not forced, fake, or declared it tax deductible. it is not about getting recognized with a name on a plaque. charity is about opening your heart to another human being in his or her time of need. without charity, true charity there is nothing. our responsibility is no less than that of the men and women who were called upon to risk their lives to defend freedom and security of our country. charity, real charity, and powers, off cliffs -- uplifts, and sets man free. [applause] >> here to present the award, the badge of merit for charity, retired from the supreme court, justice raul gonzales. [applause]

>> thank you. the honoree for the badge of rare for charity is from salt lake city, utah. our honor read was born in blackfoot, idaho. his father was a schoolteacher. his mother was a homemaker. his family moved to california at a young age. our honor read -- honoree was elected as a student body president in his eyes go. he received a scholarship to the university of pennsylvania's school of finance were he received the top rate in his graduating class. he later went on to get his mba

at the university of southern california. he married keiran in june 1959. in july the following month, he left to serve two years in the u.s. navy. [applause] our honoree has been married for 50 years. [applause] he and his lovely bride, karen, they are the parents of nine children and they had 56 grandchildren. [applause] he is active in his church. he had a very creative mind in industry.

he rose through the ranks in his profession. after using his creative mind for others, he formed his own company and among other things he created the containers used in the fast-food industry. both of his parents died of cancer. he himself is a cancer survivor. [applause] he has dedicated his energy and his wealth in funding the premier research institute for cancer, the hunts and cancer institute and has given millions of dollars in his own money for research.

[applause] his generous heart has given money to shelters for battered women, shelters for the homeless, and has given millions of dollars to different universities. his generous heart has extended to schoolteachers. annually, he gives 10 excellence in education the words to you taught teachers of $10,000 each. [laughter] -- [applause] he has been recognized as one of the handful as the most generous philanthropist in this country. he is also an author and wrote

the book, "winners never cheat." he truly exemplifies faith, hope, and charity. and has decided to give up nearly all of his wealth, over $2 billion, to charity. [applause] forgettery -- regrettably, he is not here. to receive the award on his behalf is emma houston. please come forward. ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause]

♪ ♪ >> good morning. i have not had the opportunity to greet each and every one of you, but i bring you greetings in the name of our lord and savior, jesus christ. [applause] as you can tell, i am not mr. huntsman. i am pleased to be here representing him and receiving glenn beck's award for charity. i know no more charitable individuals mr. huntsman. there is something that

precludes him being here personally. he has a granddaughter getting married. [applause] expresses his humility upon receiving this great honor. i will quote him exactly. "glenn beck is one of america's most trusted and honored citizens." " i am grateful to him for presenting to me, through emma houston, the award for charity. many people are far more deserving. it is easy to me or arent -- to

understand why he was selected for the award. his charity and generosity are known throughout the world. yes, he is a successful and wealthy industrialist, but most importantly he has given virtually all. he has given all of his money to a wonderful charity of causes. [applause] he began as a young boy helping those less fortunate when he lived in a small two room house without plumbing. he has put thousands of young and -- young men and women

through university. he has established homes for the homeless and needy. he has helped build one of the largest centers in the country for abused women and children. i know this has already been stated but it is worth repeating. his list of charities is endless. there is one in particular that is very meaningful. mr. huntsman donated hundreds of billions of dollars to build the world-famous creutzmann cancer institute and hospital in salt lake city utah -- huntsman cancer institute. [applause] it serves patients from the united states and many foreign countries. i'm fortunate and blessed, i want to emphasize a blast -- blessed, to be here today, because i was treated for stage three cancer at the huntsman institute. [applause] one in two men and one in three women will have cancer in their lifetime.

every family will be affected by this deadly disease. mr. huntsman's goal is to help eradicate cancer for the faith of the earth. [applause] when glenn beck and john huntsman first met several years ago, mr. huntsman said, "glenn, my goal is to die broke. everything i have erred in my lifetime will be donated for the upliftment and benefit of mankind." [applause]

may i just conclude with his favorite expression of love. "no man is an island. no man stand alone. each man's joya is joy to me. each man's grief is my own. we need one another. i will defend each brother, each man as my brother, each man has my friend." to you, my sisters and brothers, for such a time as this, this is the day that the lord has made. we shall rejoice. [applause] this is the day that the lord has made. we shall rejoice. we shall rejoice. we shall rejoice. we shall rejoice. we shall rejoice in this day that the lord has made.

on behalf of mr. john huntsman, i will carefully deliver this to him and his family and graciously thinking on his behalf. [applause] >> 47 years ago, on these various steps, dr. martin luther king had a dream. his dream seems a simple one -- justice, freedom, and the promise that all men are created equal, the promise that is america for all of her citizens. that day, 200,000 people, black and white, young and old, gathered across the national wall to hear his words. many had run out of faith. many had struggled just to

survive. more had lost hope. he knew that this was the day to inspire change. this was the day the american people would rise above politics, rise above the hate, and rise to the occasion. martin luther king was born into a time of fierce segregation. while parts of the country bought strictly in black-and- white, can only solve right and wrong. from the beginning, he recognized america as an idea, one that can only succeed if everyone was given a seat at the counter. just like the founding fathers before him, he knew the fight for freedom was not easy. a fight for equality was even harder. even though the fight was exhausting, the obstacles

demoralizing, he firmly stood by his belief. in the process of gaining a rightful place, he said, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. love, he preached, was the only way to invoke real change. martin luther king held strong while his detractors spew hate. he had the truth on his side. when he was told the the patient he said, "i have too little time. when jailed for protesting not violate, he wrote, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere." the great as was the face he had in the american people -- the greatness was the face he had. we, as citizens, must all carry

martin luther king's dream in all of our hearts, the dream is not completed. it is an ongoing struggle, one that all americans must be willing to undertake. like martin luther king, we are all born knowing the truth. the truth will set us free. on august 28, 1963, dr. martin luther king's message was, "look at the context of a man's character, not the color of his skin." his dream is the american dream. today, august 28, 2010, we stand here in this same hallowed ground with our heads held high and our hearts open. we all have the inalienable rights to live in a country with liberty and justice for all. >> this will be the day when all of god's children be able to

say with a new meaning, my country to is of the, -- my country tis of thee, from every mountainside let freedom ring. if america is to be a great nation, this must come true. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, it is my great, great honor to introduce to use someone that i met just recently in the last six months and has become a good friend, a woman whose family past has been washed in blood. her father and her of gold were both killed -- her father and her uncle were both killed for standing in what is right. ladies and gentlemen, dr. alveda king. [applause] ♪ >> praise the lord.

given the lord his glory. [applause] hallelujah. it is absolutely wonderful for glenn to use his popularity and influence to bring us together, to focus not on an election but to focus on honor. to focus on the content of our color and not the color of our skin. hallelujah.

god bless the special operation warrior foundation. hallelujah. thank you. thank you. listen. i want to introduce to you now catherine davis, dave gardner, dr. ed holiday, bishop harry jackson, pastor nelson, and others. come on down, my friends. [applause] we do not all have 10 minutes speeches. do not worry about this. let me ask you this real quick. how many of us know that we need to rebuild america?

[applause] we need unity to do that, right? please welcome our guest. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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leave all the broken this behind. we must rebuild our hope rebuild our loved rebuild our faith we must rebuild with the change we feel the same rebuild. we have got to build our buildings back. we need to build our family's up home by home. we have got to stick together and show at the whole world.

let them know that we have got to rebuild. hey. oh. ♪ we've got to rebuild our mind and our spirit oh america, we have got to do we have got to rebuild ooh ♪ o rebuild, yeah ♪ everything that is gone, rebuilt stone by stone, home by home, rebuild

♪ we have got to we have got to rebuild, ooh ♪ rebuild, ooh ♪ stone by stone ♪ ooh ♪ we've got to rebuild our home, home by home ♪ rebuild, rebuild ♪ stone by stone, home by home ♪ we've got to america, we've got to rebuild ♪ can we rebuild? whoa ♪ rebuild ♪

thank you. >> thank you, angelica. we have got to rebuild. [applause] >> rating from the book of as read chapter 6. it declares. moreover, i issue a decree concerning what you were to do for the elders of judah in the rebuilding of this house of god. it is to be paved -- paid out of the taxes of the provinces beyond the river. without delay, made the lord at a blessing to the reading of his word. >> bring us some unity. ♪

unity ♪ unity let's join together in unity ♪ unity ♪ that's what we need we're in a war against sin ♪ in a house that divided we've got to ask our heavenly father for a change of heart ♪ we can do much more together that we can do together ♪

come on. raise your hands. let's work together in unity ♪ ♪ unity unity that is what we need is more unity. how pleasant it is to live in harmony. how can we walk together unless we agree?

♪ put your hand in mine. we can turn the world around. we need unity. come on in ♪. let's walk together in unity ♪ unity ♪ unity ♪ that is what we need, more unity ♪

all around the world, to every sister and brother ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ unity unity ♪ let's work together in unity ♪ unity ♪ unity that's what we need is more unity ♪ we need unity ♪ unity that's what we need let's walk togther -- together in unity we need unity yes, you and me. that is what we need ♪ more unity ♪ that's what we need ♪ that's what we need ♪ come on and walk with me we need unity ♪ come on, everybody, woo. ♪ come on and take my hand hey, hey ♪ we've got to build one another

up turn the world around we need unity, unity ♪ unity rabb somebody's hand let's walk together ♪ every creed, every race, every color that is what we need more unity ♪ ♪ yeah, yeah ♪ whoo. hallelujah. >> let the church say, amen. i have been asked to read and encouragement from the apostle paul. i believe that this scripture is echoing to us today the american ideal that is found in the modern comic people nervous unum -- motto, e pluribis unim. we stand together in unity as

one strong group, americans today in the name of christ. [applause] pulse says in chapter for a -- paul says in chapter 4, i urge you to walk with patience, showing tolerance in one another, with love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace until we all come into this unity of the faith come until the knowledge of the son of god, until the measure of the state of the fullness of jesus christ. may god at a blessing to the reading of his holy word. [applause] >> glory to god. 47 years ago, my of go, dr. martin luther king jr., stood here and proclaimed, "i had a dream." my parents were here to support all go martin.

-- uncle king. we all knew that august 28 would be a very special day. it was an incredible moment in history, the descendant of african and irish ancestors speaking to the nation about freedom, about just as, and ultimately about love. pin shorted all that what the order did pool

they seek to oregon. they seek to serve. the book of god teaches us that we should celebrate and honor their lives today. i can only imagine what these heroes have experienced in their own trials, even as my uncle did in his lifetime. we know how long kollmorgen road on the margins of an old newspaper the beginnings of his baby -- is famous letter from a birmingham jail. it was there that he focused not on his around is -- surroundings, but his focus.

hallelujah, hallelujah. today, we are here to honor special men and women who, like my uncle martin, are blessed with servants hearts. though they gave their service in ways very different from martin luther king jr., they are not afraid to give their lives for the freedom of others. if uncle martin could be here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor were honor is due. he would surely remind us that as brothers and sisters, united by one blood and one single race, the human race, we are called to honor god and to love each other. he would encourage us -- yes, thank you. [applause] he would encourage us to lay aside are divisive lives. we are one human family.

yes, one human family. [applause] we must help those who are being oppressed. 47 years ago, uncle martin compared our nation's promise of equal protection to a check mark insufficient funds. today, in more than one sense, america is nearly bankrupt. our material gains seem to be going the way of our moral losses. we are suffering from the great evil divide of racism. our children are suffering in a failing school system. our sons and daughters are being incarcerated at astronomical rates. sickness, disease and poverty of the spirit soul and body are plaguing our community. the foundation of marriage is being threatened and the ones of our mothers have become places where the blood of our children are shed in a will war that it

shatters the fabric of our society. in the economy reflects our nation's moral poverty. yet, and we are not without hope. faith, hope and love are not dead in america. hallelujah, we put our trust in god. our honored heroes here today bear with us that there is hope for the human heart. oh that the fountain can be rebuild -- rebuilt. when will we know that the check on omar and spoke of is good? -- ogle martin spoke of is good?

[applause] we will know what our children are no longer in our streets but in our classrooms. we will not know-we will know when of righteousness rolls down like water and justice like a mighty spring. [applause] yes, i did, too, have a dream. i have a dream that one day soon, god's love will transcend skin color and economic status and cause us to turn from world -- from moral turpitude. i have a dream that america will recant of the sin of racism and

return to honor. i have a dream. yes, i have a dream that white privilege will become rudy -- human privilege and the people of every ethnic blend of bull receive everyone as brothers and sisters in the law of god. .

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after the march on washington we had a terrible treanled. the dream turned into a nightmare. four little girls were blown up , murdered in birmingham, alabama at the 16th street baptist church. and when martin luther king, junior, preached the you'llology, he said that those four little girls, though they were dead, they were living and speaking. speaking to the politicians that serve their constituencies

, the stale bread and spoiled meat of racism. speaking to the clergy that were hiding behind their stained glass windows and cloistrd hallways. speaking to all who stood passively on the sidelines instead of engaging in the struggle for justice and they are speaking to us today. they are telling us to march on. and that's what we'll do. march on as one family. march on as one nation. march on as one people until freedom is won. remember, don't be afraid. alicia said you've got to have an empire state of mind and have big dreams, big goals. and we must remember king who

said we will learn to live together as brothers and sisters or die as fools alone. >> john boy, it is absolutely ashame that the black farmer had not gotten the settlement for their lawsuits. the man who has fought that fight and is still fighting, ladies and gentlemen, the president of the black farmers association, please welcome dr.

john boyd. >> hello, weashed washington, d.c. i want to say today to dr. king our world leader, the founder, the originator, the emancipator, the man who paved the way for blacks in this country and paved the way for america to be what it is today, let's give a hand for dr. king. let him hear today. let dr. king hear us today. and dr. king gave us a miracle

in 2008. he gave us the first african american president in history. we ought to let that be known today. we support our president. you know, in the early 90s i made so many trips no washington, d.c. about the plight of black farmers, the plight of land loss for black people in this country. and you know something, people? a landless culture is a power lines culture. those who -- powerless culture. my plight is your plight. what is the connection from black farmers and african americans in this country? we have to be able to feed ourselves. and if we don't own any land, people, we can't feed ourselves. can we? or you all ain't with me today. that ought to be important today. and we march to get a settlement in 1999.

that settlement gave us the largest settlement in history for black people. the black farmer settlement, where 14,000 black farmers received compensation for discrimination at the department of agriculture. now, dr. king gave a speech that said the president has the power, and he spoke about discrimination 53 years ago. and today, we're still talking about discrimination. people, we've got a ways to go today. or you all aren't with me today. we ought to be celebrating in one aspect. ready to fight in another aspect. and on the other side of washington talking about the constitution. i want you to know today that the constitution exists for black americans integget exists for black americans. we want all those things too.

the constitution doesn't belong to one group of people. it doesn't belong to one person in this country. the constitution was written that said all men was created equal. as we celebrate the dream. i want you to do something for black farmers when you leave here. monday morning, i want you to call your u.s. senator and say pass the black farmers bill. they've been waiting too long. they've been fighting too long. too many have died. and as i close, i want to say to my good friend shirley sherod, god is with you. god is but. god is but. -- with you. i said there were 80,000 black farmers who filed complaints

against the department of of agriculture and nobody was fired. here was this lady that god chose that day pulled over to the side of the road and was asked for her resignation because they thought she had done something wrong to a white . but god fixed it so, he picked a good soldier that day and showed the goodness of her trying to do something right. and i ask the question today, how could someone be fired on the spot and for decades not somebody been fired for the abts of discrimination against black people? something is wrong with that. and as i leave today, i want to tell you, don't give up. when we've lost all our land, don't give up. we've lost the fight for our land but we will win the fight for 1.25 for black farmers across the country. thank you. god bless you.

>> it takes one heck of a long time for plants to grow. so three minutes to him is like, you know, watching corn grow, man. and reverend adames is sitting over here saying i finished early. any how, i've got to bring up another reverend. all right. you all are going to be full of the spirit today. and we were on time about six minutes ago. any how. is everybody all right? all right. drink plenty of water now, please. plenty of water. drink plenty of water. all right, please welcome all

the way from newark, new jersey the pastor of metropolitan baptist church, the reverend david jefferson. >> good morning. brothers and sisters. the measure of a man is not simply what he does for himself , but rather the sacrifice that he is willing to make for others. we must not forget our purpose. we must not forget our cause.

47 years ago, they came from the farmlands of louisiana, north carolina, and georgia. they came. from the streets of the inner cities, they came. with chicken wings and chicken legs in brown bags they came. they came when they didn't have a place to stay and they could not ride in the front of the bus. but they came. and they came because not for themselves but they came that we might have the opportunity that we have today. there is an awesome spirit in this place. there is a spirit here today that commemorates the legacy, the life, but more importantly the dream of dr. king. and there are those in his days who were tempted to make him

think that he had arrived and there are those today who would make us think that we have arrived but we have not arrived. we have not arrived until every kid in our country has access to a good education. we have not arrived. we have not arrived until we have jobs in our inner city and throughout the united states of america. we have not arrived. we have not arrived until there is justice for everyone. we have not arrived. and today must be more than an activity. today must be more than an event and an episode. but today must go beyond reclaiming the dream. we must reclaim our communities. we must reclaim our families. we must reclaim our homes. we must reclaim our children. and so we have come today. not to preach but to simply say let's go back to our various places and let's make a difference in the communities

from whence we have come. god bless you. power to the people. power to new jersey. thank you all. god bless you. welcome, george gershman, president of 1199 sciu and michael mel brew, president of the united federation of teachers labors in the house. good afternoon. thank you for being here. it's a beautiful day. isn't it? my name is jamie conterrories and i'm with 36r7b26r7b b -- 32 bj in the house.

and it's an honor for me to be here with my brother from 1199 new york. it's also here other labor leaders. first of all, let me say this. why are we here today? why is sciu and other labor leaders here today? because it is ashame what's happening today at the lincoln memorial where the great martin luther king gave the i have a dream speech. shame on them. right? today civil rights leaders, union leaders, religious leaders, and others are joining together to commemorate to really commemorate martin luther king's 47th anniversary of the march on washington and the i have a dream speech. we still have a dream. right? we are here to let those folks at the lincoln memorial know that they don't represent the

dream. they sure as hell don't represent my dream. and they don't speak for me and they don't speak for all americans. they represent hate mongering and angry white people. that's who they represent. now, the happy white people are here with us today. right? i say again to those people at the lincoln memorial, shame on them. today black, brown, and working people in general are joining forces to let those people -- i have another word for those people but i'm not going to say it. those people know that enough is enough. and we will not let them stand in the way of the change. community leaders, civil rights

leaders, labor leaders, religious leaders and all of us are here today to say no more immigrant hating by passing laws like the law that they passed in arizona. we need comprehensive immigration reform. we are also here to let them know that we need to let -- we need to end it. we're here to let them know to invest in job creation and not tax breaks for the wealthy. we're here to let them know to invest in education for our children, no more working people hating in this country. enough is enough. i'm going to -- just one more thing that i want to say to you all. in 2008, we stood together and

we voted for change. right? and we still need some of that change to happen. right? on that day, november 2008, we stood together as a people and we won. right? what does that say? that people united, that people united will never be divided. that people -- thank you very much. keep on fighting. >> in washington, d.c. we live on this last plantation of america, but it won't be too long. we are out to free d.c. so that our congresswoman can have the vote we pay taxes, we send people to war, and we send one of the best quim, men,

delegates -- congress women, men, delegates in america up on capitol hill. ladies and gentlemen, eleanor holmes norton. >> oh, thank you, my good friend the black eagle. on behalf of the 600,000 residents of the district of columbia, i am pleased to welcome all of you to the nation's capital. where the residents will not rest until they get their voting rights, and until we are admitted to the union as the 51st state. i want to thank reverend al sharpton the leadership

conference on civil rights, the national and local leaders who have worked to bring us together for an occasion appropriate to the dignity and memory and meaning of the 1963 march on washington. i appreciate that you have gathered at dun bar high school, the first public high school for black students in the united states. famed for its excellence, not withstanding segregation and for its acheevers such as dr. charles drew and senator edbrook. i was fortunate to attend dunbar and was sitting in one of those segregated classrooms when the principal announce that had the supreme court had just declared segregated schools unconstitutional.

when the march on washington occurred in 1963, dunbar was not segregated but schools all over america still were segregated and public accommodations was segregated and housing was segregated and blacks in the south didn't have the right to vote. so the march on washington changed all of that. glenn beck's march will change nothing. but you can't blame -- you can't blame again bleck for his march on washington envy. too bad he doesn't have a message to match the place that is worthy of the march. as a kid, i spent part of the summer in greenwood, mississippi, and part of the summer working for the march on

washington as i watched the crowds from the steps of the lincoln memorial i saw my country coming together across all racial and class lines. king's movement for equal rights stood for racial reconciliation, black and white together. we shall not be moved, not glenn beck's message. we will not -- we will move right over you on this 47th anniversary of the march that changed america when our country reached to overcome the low point of its racial history. we will not be wrouth.

>> they've got a new trick. all right. so now when you hear the piano and you don't go to the last paragraph of your speech, they turn off the mike. i've got to tell you all, you all have got some nerve turning off the mike on the congresswoman. all right. it's time for my main man. big ed. ladies and gentlemen, welcome the ed show star. >> thank you. what a wonderful day. what a wonderful crowd. give yourself a hand. this is awesome.

i've never had a three-minute timetable, but i'll try. the job market in america, it starts right there in that building. that's where it starts. let me tell you about ed. i went to a black high school. i'm a product of forced busing for racial equality. i know what it was like to be on a black football team. i know what it was like to go undefeated in a regular season. i know what it was like that night we went to the playoff game. and instead of bringing one bus like they did all season long, we're in the playoffs now, they decided to bring two buses. and all the white kids got on this bus and all the brothers got on this bus. and i was the last one out of the locker room and i knew the political climate, i knew why i was there, and i want you to know i got on the bus with the brothers and i've been riding

with them for the last 40 years. and while the political forces in this country tell thause that building is not worthwhile, that there's no hope for public education, and that we should defund it and we should go to school vouchers, ask yourself the question, is that what dr. king wanted? ask yours the question, is public education important to us fixing the job issue in this country? let me tell you, and i talk about diversety. i am a proud product of the middle class. i am a proud product of racial equality and forced busing. and i want to tell my white brothers and sisters and my asian brothers and sisters and all the walks of the walk in america, it works pt don't be afraid of it.

it works. one final word. i'm not in the tv business. i'm not in the radio business. i'm living the life of telling the truth about america. they just happen to put a microphone in front of me. god bless you. let's go. yes, we can. yes, we can. yes, we can. god bless america. thank you. >> i had to see how much he learned on the bus. that's all. still got to work on the coordination there. that's all.

we have just one more announcement. you know, they're still coming in. they're still coming in. real quick, marshals, we have an announcement here just real quick. a little house-cleaning right here. good afternoon, everyone. all right. all the marshals, and that's all of you who obviously have t shirts on that says marshals that signed up to be marshals because you know the other part of the day is we're getting ready to march. we're going to meet all the marshals by the rider truck right in this corner over here so if you can make your way over there so we can give you all of the instructions we're going to need when we get ready to line up and start to march. thank you. let's welcome now to the podium the pastor of new mount missionry baptist church in west garfield, chicago, illinois, please. reverend marshall pact.

>> thank you. chicago in the house. god bless you, brothers and sisters. today we are not so much concerned about standing in the same space that dr. king stood in 47 years ago, but we are concerned about bringing the same spirit that dr. king had 47 years ago. we are not concerned about taking america back. we are concerned about moving america forward. somebody say forward. with the moral vision. listen, no serious patriot can claim to love america without talking about maximum investment in poor black latino and white children and closing the funding and achievement gap in education. make no mistake about it, america has no future without

the success of these children. we cannot compete in the global economy without these children. we cannot rebuild the american economy without these children. we cannot reestablish american values without these children. we cannot defeat global terrorism without these children. we cannot even fund social security in the future unless these children are gainfully employed. without them, there is no america. we believe that the moral vision means we can do what is good and what is right at the same time. too much of our human potential is in underfunded schools and overcrowded jails. too many young men who now run illegal drug cart teles and do battle with the police have the ability to run for tune 500 countries. many of our young ladies on chicago south side, all of them

have the capacity to be the next michelle obama. we must invest in our future. and so our success represents our future success is invested in these children. let me be done. but on the south side of chicago, chicago urban prep, and this past spring 108 young men graduated with an acceptance let tore a four-year college and university. i was at that graduation. and i found out that in the beginning, 108 of them, at the end 108 of them went out. it can be done. we can do it. god bless america. >> the president of the leadership council on civil and human rights. we're all going to be back here

october 2nd. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome wade henderson. >> good afternoon, brothers and sisters. good afternoon. good to see all of you. i'm wade henderson, i'm president of the conference on civil rights a national coalition working to build mirk like the vision of dr. king, one where quality and brotherhood are the standard of the day. there are a lot of people in washington today who think they know what dr. king would be saying and doing if he were here walking among us. i'm not one of them. i don't know what dr. kink would be thinking and saying. i do know that his vision far exceed it had expectations of his day. that's why, when barack obama was given the nomination to be the democratic party candidate for president, it happened on the same day that dr. king gave his i have a dream speech.

his vision exceeded everything. so i do know this. there are four things he would probably be working on. one, he knows that jobs are the issue of the day. that means creating a million jobs immediately to put all of us bark to work and to make that the top priority. second, we heard about education. dunbar is a symbol of what a quality education can be even in times of discrimination. but that's not it. whatever zip code your daughter or your son lives in should be a zip code where quality education is available for all. and that's got to be the standard. third, we would be lifting up the need to fix our broken immigration system. it's wrong to pit poor black workers against poor latino workers and to say they've got to fight it out for the

nonsense jobs that are available and that don't work for any of us. we need to fix that system. we need to make that work. and then, lastly, we've got to lift up the dignity of work. the truth is dignity is found in work. if it weren't for the unions, we wouldn't have a five-day workweek, if it weren't for the unions there wouldn't be no march on washington because who pays for the buses to come? here's the final deal. dr. king knew that we were the change we wanted to see happen. that was the message he gave from the lincoln memorial steps so lift up your voice, lift up your votes. because if you don't vote, you don't count. turn this expectation of a stumesie in november around. make it work for everybody. >> i would like to bring to the

podium now the national president of the delta signature ma thatea -- sigma theta. >> hello. as the national president, i believe there are some deltas in the house, we come today on this historic day. we are gathered to commemorate the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our great nation. we are here to reclaim the dream that our great dr. martin luther king junior and so many others, she ros and heroes of the civil rights movement, fought, bled, and some died for. we are also here today to shed some light on the key issues that have diminished the dream. a few of those like health care, quality education,

economic empowerment. as a public service organization commited to uplifting and empowering african american communities, delta sigmathatea has been involved in every social movement that has taken place in this country since our inception 97 years ago. deltas were very active on the march on washington. in fact, our beloved presidents stood as the only woman on the steps of the lincoln memorial. i also stand here today as the chair of the council of presidents of the divine nine. i stand and roachting my brothers of -- representing and sisters of all the organizations, come today knowing that as african americans we are at a pivotal point in history where we can

either remain complacent under the guise of a post-racial society or we can continue to fight for policies that can move us forward and not push ut back wards. we must continue to bring to the attention of all the issues of our community. others want us to believe that there is no discrimination. others want us to believe that there is no need for rallies and cries. others want us to believe that all is well in the united states of america. this is what others want us to believe. but we came today to say that is a lie and the truth is not in it. it is up to us to fight for change. it is up to us to make change happen. it is up to us to declare reclaim that dream. it's up to us. >> i am seeing like a whole new

wave of people coming in, and those are the ones that just got up. it's 20 minutes after 12:00 now. they got up and said i'm going to will b late. so they're still coming in, ladies and gentlemen, when i'm off the air at 10:00 a.m. on wo l radio one. you there's another guy, you never know where he is, please give it up for warren valen tine. >> what's up truth fighters. >> wait a minute. >> he does four hours talk. so we've got to hold him to three minutes. i just want you all to know

that. >> i'm going to be less than three minutes torks be honest but. i applaud for everybody coming out. give yourselves a round of applause. i want you to repeat this with me. a dream without a plan is nothing more than a wish. dr. king had a dream. he had a vision. but all we've been doing is wishing. we've been looking for the government, we've been looking for everybody to save us. you are the heroes of today. we've got to start thinking about what we're going to do with our money, people. every tribe of mankind is in your community is getting rich and you don't even realize it. if we want equality, if we want to be standing strong, it starts with our money. the politicians want us divided because, you know what? republicans and democrats make

money off of us that way. the country wants us divided by us being racially divided. why? because there's big money in that. but i will say what dr. king once said. we may have come here on different ships, but right now we're all in the same boat. and until we realize we need to start paddling, we will all go down. so i challenge you all today not just to wish, but to plan and make tomorrow better. god bless you. i love you with the love of jesus. >> give him a round of applause. less than three minutes. national council of laraza, she is the president. give it up for laraza. >> good afternoon. it's an honor, a true honor for me to be here today but to pay

tribute to the life of the legacy of dr. martin luther king, junior. you know, august 28, 1963 is a date that is re veered and celebrated in the latino community as well. thousands of latinos marched in solidarity with dr. king and other civil rights leaders that day including my predecessor, the man who led this organization for 30 years, we've been there together. we know what it's like to walk the walk together. the reason we were there that historic august day was that we knew dr. king's dream spoke to everyone, and it spoke to us in the latino community. it spoke to every community. today it is more important than ever to remember and reaffirm that dr. king's vision of america and americans included every race, every ethnicity,

every religion, and every community. dr. king sent a note of support to a very famous latino community icon, caesar chavez that said, our separate struggles are really one, a struggle for freedom, for dignity, and humanty. that still rings true today. we reaffirm that promise that was made and we commit to live to that promise together. and while much has changed since dr. king's time, the struggle continues. that is the reason that, for 40 years, we have stood shoulder to shoulder with our brothers and sisters in the african american community to promote equal opportunity for all americans. as dr. king noted, we cannot walk alone.

i am a child of dr. king's hope and it is his hope and his positive vision for america that we need to remind everyone here today and across this city at the other end of the mall that it is a positive message of hope that we have for our future, and together we know there is more that unites us than divides us. we commit as latinos to working with our african american brothers and sisters to live his dreams. thank you very much. yes, we can. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the assistant secretary of the united states labor

department, william sprigs. >> thank you very much. yes, howard university. so, i am glad to be here. this is not -- this is not the counter rally. i am happy to be here at the rally, because no one else can claim our vision or our dream. now, when dr. king came 47 years ago, the original march was organized by a philip randolph. and he organized that march because he wanted jobs. and that is still what we are about today. and that is what the u.s.

department of labor is trying to do today, is to restore good jobs for everybody. but we have a big challenge. there are some people who would like to have us move the economy and put it into our. we want to put the economy and not go into reverse. we want to put the economy into drive. in 1993 , when the secretary of labor took their position under bill clinton, there were 109 million americans on the pay roll. when the secretary left as the second secretary of labor under bill clinton there were 132 million americans on the pay

roll. when the baton was passed to hilda solis, the daughter of immigrants, the daughter of a team ster local president, when the baton was passed to her, there weren't 132 million jobs on the payroll. after eight years there were fewer americans working than when secretary chow had been handed the baton. we are not struggling about just the recession. we are struggling about eight years of running up the biggest deficit of anybody in american history and delivering fewer jobs. we are here because dr. king's speech had a lot of where ases before he got to the, therefore, i have a dream part.

the where as that started it said that, you know, we don't even have the right to vote. we don't even have somebody to vote for if we could vote for. but you elected that person we had the chance to vote for. and now we need your help to keep moving the country forward to keep that dream alive, to keep the dream alive. >> dallas, texas is in the house. board members and national action network, please welcome the reverend frederick haines >> reclaim the dream. what happens to a dream deferred, does it dry up like a raisen in the sun, fester like a sore and then run, or does it

stink like rotten meat? or does it just explode? those words of course come from langston hughes, a colleague of paul lawrence dunbar during the harlem renaissance. what happens to a dream deferred? ask those for whom the american dream remains an elusive nightmare. what happens to a dream deferred? ask 40 million who still find themselves beneath the poverty level. i ask my man can give it to you like this. it's like a jungle. it's like a jungle. sometimes it makes me wonder how i keep from going under. ask those who find themselves in schools that are factories of failure that feed the prison pipeline so that we now have in this country what michelle alexander calls the new jim crow. what happens to a dream deferred? we are here to reclaim that dream. why? because we dare to believe with

dr. king from 47 years ago who against the backdrop of a negative nightmare of jim crow aparta dared to declare we have a dream. so, yes, we are reclaiming the dream. why? because dreams still come true. they come true because 1963 led to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1964. dreams do come true because marching feet from sell ma to montgomery led to the passage of voting rights legislation. dreams do come true because rossa parks sat, jesse ran,al sharpton stood, obama won, and now we can all fly. dreams do come true, because now in the white house we have malia and sasha playing in that white house. because dreams do come true. because if god before us who can be against us? dreams do come true because no weapon formed against us shall

prosper. dreams do come true. and we shall overcome. peace. >> and he walked off the stage like james brown. >> executive director of d.c. votes. please welcome him to the stage. >> what's up d.c.? what's up d.c.? when i say d.c., you say vote. d.c. d.c. when i say d.c., you say vote. d.c. d.c. america, we are here to reclaim the dream that is true. but in d.c., we're still trying to achieve the dream of full

democracy and voting representation. that is our message to the rest of the country. we're trying to achieve that dream. earlier this morning, we were down to the tea party and we handed out tea bags. on the tea bags it said end taxation without representation in d.c. and people took those bags. they're like, oh, yeah. end taxation without representation. and they were tea bags so the tea baggers were all excite about them. but here's the thing antithat, folks. the tea party wasn't about taxation. it was about taxation without representation. we've had us a tea party in washington, d.c. for a very long time. so we're here to demand democracy. if you have the sign hold it up. i am d.c. i demand democracy. i am d.c., i demand democracy. i am d.c. i demand democracy. give it up d.c.

thank you. >> a little of the d.c. flavor. let me welcome and bring to the podium the chairman of the d.c. city council mr. vince gray. >> good afternoon, everybody. welcome to the historic paul lawrence dunbar high school where i'm a proud graduate, went here for three years, graduated from dunbar that gave me the launching pad to be able to go forward and help people in this city. as we talk about education, let's reflect back on 47 years ago when dr. king not only talked about the then existing conditions among frin americans in this country. he pated the greatest vision

ever to move us forward. and 47 years later, we still have the challenge and the charge before us to right the wrong that has befallen people who are minorities in this nation. we know we need to improve public education so that our kids graduate and have the ability to get a job in this society. we need to improve employment. in this city when you go to the eastern end of this city, ward 8, 35% unemployment. ward 7, 19% unemployment. and it is time for us to be outraged and get our people back to work again. everybody desoist to work. -- deserves to work. and also, the district of columbia deserves to be treated with equality. we pay the same federal taxes as everybody else in this nation. last year we paid $3.6 billion in taxes and we can't even get a vote in the congress for one of the most outstanding representatives in this nation,

eleanor holmes norton. and so, instead of jist fighting for a vote, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us to stand up and fight to become the 51st state in the nation. it is time for us to be outraged. those of us who live in the district of columbia, let's demen strait our outrage. and those who live outside the city, go back home wherever it is and say it is time to right the wrong in the nation's capital that we can't fight for democracy in foreign places and we can't fight for it at home. ladies and gentlemen, let's right the wrong. let's make dr. king's dream come true. let's have equality in our nation's capital. thank you all very much. >> we are now in the final banks ft pee speakers. they're all -- banks of the

speakers. reverend sharpton is here. bell is here. they're all standing by ready. we've still got people coming in. but we're not going anywhere until we hear from the chairman of the board of the national action network, the reverend w. franklin richardson, pastor of grace baptist church, mount vernon, new york. >> good afternoon. i want you to know that we are really grateful to have you here. it's important that we are here not far from here 50 years ago a great american articulated the hopes and dreams of his generation. and we are here because we have picked up that generation. we have picked up their hopes and their dreams. we believe that we are testifying to the souls of

those who fought before us. we testify that we will never forget their sacrifices. we will never forget their being bruised and indignified for our hopes and dreams. we will never forget them. but we are also here to celebrate the accomplishments of the last 50 years. we have watched many doors open, new opportunities have arisen for us as a people. we have a lot to be proud of. but we are also here because the work is incomplete. there's still yet much that we must do. some have asked why are we here and the other group is at the mall? this is america. all groups ought to have the opportunity to speak and to give their particular point of view. i happen not to agree with their point of view, but i would fight for their right to speak at the mall. but let me tell you, we have been at the mall for the last hundred years we've been at the

mall. it's all right with me that they're at the mall today because we are at the white house. and as long as -- [cheers and applause] as long as they are at the mall, it's all right with me if they let us be in the white house. the challenge before us is to make sure that we are a competent people, that we bring to the table great competence, great commitment, excellence. martin king said this, in 1871, if you can build a better mouse thap than your neighbor even if you build your house in the woods, the world will make a path to your door and this becomes increasingly true. we must not set out to be a great anything ro doctor or barber or buetigs. what we do already float the ma trick lation examination into the university of integration. if it falls, on your lot to sweep streets, sweep streets

like shake spear wrote poetry like beethoven wrote music, so the whole host of heaven and earth will say here live as great street sweeper. get together children. don't you be weary. >> the next speaker is head of the oldest largest civil rights organization, the naacp. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome ben jo lis.

give a round of applause. >> fired up. fired up. fired up. all right. let's try a different chant. [inaudible] that's right. raise your hand if you were here on january 20th, 2009. raise your hand. and raise your hand if you stayed home and watched it on tv because it was too cold. you all are the smart ones. the rest of you, it was cold that day. and you know, i was fortunate,

i got the forecast two years earlier. and i said to my grand father, grand dad, i think we've got a winner this time. he said what's his name? i said barack hue sane balm obama. and my grand father said barack who? i lived my 90 years as a black man in this country, tell you something. don't put your heart too much, because it will be a cold day. and there i was 12 rows behind the president with a skull cap pulled down and i said grand dad, you're right. it's a cold day and barack obama is president. you know, i remind us of that day because it was a day when the entire country felt united.

it was a day when we felt our country was a place of big hearts and big minds. and for a year and a half we've been subjected to small hearts and small minds on our small screens. and starting with this day, we will remind the country that the majority of people in this country believe in hope, believe in progress, believe in unity, believe in universal human dignity for all people. and that's what dr. king talked about. i hope the media here sees the signs at our rally, because across town they told them not to bring any signs to their rally. imagine that. imagine dr. king having to say, well guess what, when it happens. number one on their list is don't bring their sign. number two on their list is don't bring your gun.

what is our country coming to? and that's why we all have to stand together and say we have come too far to pass health care reform, we have come too far to narrow the sentencing disparity between crack and powder 80%, we've come too far to save 160,000 teachers jobs. we have come too far to turn back now. we will not sit down, we will not be counted out, we will be there on 11/2/10 and that's why we need you. and we need you back here on 10/2/10, for the one nation rally that reverend sharpton and others, and clergy across this country are helping us to organize. it is time to make sure that our country, when they turn on the tv, sees