back, sees the hope reflected back, sees the unity reflected back, and the urgency to put our country back to work and pull our country back together. thank you. and god bless. >> ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce aid ran fenty, the mayor of washington, d.c. . .

>> [applause] >> melanie campbell is the executive director and ceo of the national coalition on black civic participation. and one of the co-sponsors of

weedy me the dream. please welcome melanie campbell. -- redeem the dream. >> thank you. for call in on us to redeem the dream of martin luther king jr., your father. repeat after me -- i am the dream. i am the dream. you are the dream. we are the dream. reclaim the dream. i bring you greetings on behalf of the national coalition and the black women's roundtable and black youth both. i want to recognize a delta sigma theta. i also bring you greetings on behalf of my 81-year-old mother who is down in minnesota watching us today. i'm honored and humbled to be

with you today to celebrate the life and legacy of dr. king and those leaders who joined him at the 1963 march in washington for jobs. can you say jobs? justice and equality. there are folks who are 100 -- over 250 rich and poor who came to washington, d.c. to ask our government to cash a check and that was marked insufficient funds. dr. king said to cash a check that would give this the riches of freedom and the security of justice. we are also gathered here today to renew and rededicate ourselves to completing dr. king's dream, to make real the promises of our democracy and

open the doors of opportunity to all god's children. can i say amen? dr. king gave his i have a dream speech here in the nation's capital. he declared that 1963 was not an end but a beginning. change was needed to achieve his dream of economic and social opportunity for all our citizens. dr. king urged his followers that day to stay positive and return home and start working on change. dr. king, in the 1963 march, said this situation can and will be changed. they left this city determined not to wallow in the valley of despair. they followed dr. king's leadership and said to focus and change. everybody remember 2008. what did we do? we've voted for change. we voted for health care and in 2010, we won that fight for

health care for all americans. can i get an amen? just like 1963, there are those that would not embrace change. they want us to go backward, not forward. today, august 28, 2010 double we are here to declare and move forward for change and as president obama declared, we are here to build a new foundation for economic recovery and prosperity for all americans. can you do this for me? turn to york neighbor and say it is cool out here. we get it. you showed up. one thing i will talk about and then i will sit down. one thing that he talked about when he talked about the mountaintop, why are you marching? why are you out here in this

heat? here is what we said. when we stop marching is when we do not see mass of cooperation of our young people. when will we stop marching? when we do not see massive unemployment. when will we stop marching? when we will not see excess of consumption. when will stick we stop marching? when we see people without access to health care. when will we stop marching? until we will see people still drowning economically five years after hurricane katrina or the bp oil spill in to retrieve -- in louisiana. when will we stop marching? when our grown men will lift up their hands. we love you my brothers. we will stop march and when our young people can live the american dream.

i will close out and just say that when you are ready to go back, back to mississippi, go back to florida my home state, california, louisiana, howard university students over there, north carolina, virginia, continue for change when you go back come. repeat after me, make sure you vote in 2010. make sure you go to the polls. d.c. anybody care from ward 8? you need to start voting on monday, august 30, 2010. tell that young girl her black is beautiful. tell that young man you can be anything you want to be thanks to the 1963 march in washington, you can be prosperous in the united states for a repeat after me -- i am the trade. you are the dream.

we are the dream. reedy the street. we claim that craig. thank you and god bless you. let's reclaim the dream together. the lead in the power, thank you very much. [applause] >> we have two more speakers and the rev. sharpton and we will get ready to march. wow, look at them. they either can't get in or they don't want to get in. they probably want to jump in front of the line. ladies and gentleman, my main man, you see him a lot now that they are talking about the five- year anniversary of katrina, there are probably a lot of people in new orleans who wished he was still the mayor of new orleans but we are pleased to have him on the civil-rights front. you can come on up.

thank you. there you go. you got it? all right, ladies and gentlemen, we are glad to have him on the civil-rights front and equally glad to have him as a c0- in the near of this effort for it but your heads together for my main man and president and ceo of the national urban league,mark h. >> good afternoon, brothers and sisters. i am grateful to see each and everyone of you and i am equally grateful to the rev. al sharpton and martin luther king iii for bringing us here today. we gather on this day at this historic school named after the

great poet paul laurence dunbar. this school, the first public school for black children in the history of the united states, this school, which educated charles drew, edward brooks, judge williams hastings, as well as eleanor holmes norton, we gather on this, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the national urban league, the 47th anniversary of dr. king's historic march on washington in a week where we celebrate women's suffrage which happened 90 years ago we gather. we gather at a time when fourscore and seven years ago, dr. martin luther king and his colleagues whitney young and roy

wilkins and james carter and john lewis a/ philip randolph and others gathered with 250,000 men, women, children of all races, creeds, colors, and religions to affirm a new vision for america in the 20th century. they gathered because they wanted to affirm those words embodied by the founding fathers of this nation that all men -- that all people are created equal. and all people, all people are endowed with certain inalienable rights, the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness. let the word go forth -- we are here today as the children and grandchildren of the generations

of dr. martin luther king. let the word go forth -- that in this crowd are also many who truly march with understood and understood dr. king's vision of 40 years ago. let the word go forth that we are here to reclaim that dream. , to reclaim that dream once and for all invest the 21st century. we've reclaim that dream because it is a dream of health care for all. it is a dream of access to affordable housing for all. he is a dream of good schools with good teachers for all children everywhere. and it is a dream of good jobs with living wage for all people. we reclaim the dream for our seniors, for our mothers and fathers, for our children, for our grandchildren, we reclaim

that dream for everyone who is fighting to make ends meet, but are struggling to send their children to school and college, to teachers who are on the front lines. we reclaim that dream for health-care workers as public servants everywhere in this nation. we reclaim that dream for entrepreneurs and small-business men and women and we reclaim this dream for the 21st century. let the word go forth -- that we will not stand silent as some seek to hijack and some seek to distort and contort and some see to bamboozle and confuse the vision of dr. king's. . wheat do not care -- we do not care if their names end in an a or b.

we don't care if their names and in o or a p. we do not care if they are members of the tea party, republican party, democratic party, the coffee party, or if they are at a cocktail party. let the word go forth as we reclaim the dream of dr. king for the 21st century. [applause] we reclaim, we reclaim this tree because we are here to say that we must be one nation. we must be one nation under god indivisible with liberty, justice, and economic opportunity for all. we must be one nation under god

with liberty, justice, economic opportunity, and educational excellence for all. we must be one nation empowered to assure that every child is ready for college, work, and light. we say yes. we say no to the achievement gap. we say no to the graduation gap. we say no that there are more black men in jail than in college or we say no to a world where majority of all children cannot read or do math at grade level. we say yes to a future where because our children are educated, we can bulldoze all the prisons. we say yes. we say yes to teachers that are well paid. we say yes to teachers that are accountable. we say yes to a future where there is economic opportunity and equal education for all.

we must be empowered. we must be empowered to ensure that we are one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and economic opportunity and justice for all to ensure that every person has access to a good job that pays a living wage with good benefits. we must be empowered. to ensure that we are one nation under god. today we say wake up america and we stand on the shoulders of martin luther king. we stand on the shoulders of fannie lou hebert. we stand on the shoulders of shirley chisholm, branch rickey, jackie robinson, ted kennedy, then folks, roy wilkens, thurgood marshall. we stand on the shoulders of our fathers and mothers, grandmothers, and grandfathers. reclaim a dream. reclaim the dream. reclaim of the dream. we are empowered. [applause]

>> ladies and gentleman, i only have to use two words to introduce the next speaker. i would say that i get up in the morning to listen to him but hell, i am doing my own show. ladies and gentlemen, tom joyner. [applause] >> hey, everybody, how are you doing? are you ready to march, i know i am? and excuse me, i need to do a photoop here. sybil?

do you have a real wide lens? not that i need a real wide lens. back in the day, when the civil- rights movement was marching just like we are marching today, how do you think they got the word at to get 40,000 people at the lincoln memorial? they did not have to see an end, they did not have social networks, it was black radio. we would stop the music. we would give the microphone to dr. king, reverend abernathy or

whomever and they would tell you when when, where, and why we would march. i was with dr. king on the last leg of the selma to montgomery march. and i am marching out just like i did a bed. i am glad to be here today. it is hot out here. it is getting late and it is time to march. the rev. al sharpton will fire us up. thank you, i love you, black people. [applause] >> let me bring this young lady up because she will take my place in introducing the next speaker and i will tell you why. mary pat hector will introduce the secretary of education. this young lady raised enough

money to bring three buses [applause] from stone mountain, georgia. [applause] stunned mountain, ga. it sure has changed, hasn't it? >> arne duncan was handpicked by the president of the united states, barack obama. he raised standards and student performance. as secretary of education, he believes that education is a civil-rights issue of our generation. he wants everyone to go to college. he says that is the path to the quality. he was in atlanta to listen to everyone. he was in atlanta to listen to me, students and educators. i want everyone out here to listen to arne duncan.

please help me and welcoming arne duncan [applause] >> can we have another round of applause for mary pat? she is the future [applause] . thanks to all of you for coming out we had to educate our way to a better economy and this is the civil-rights issue of our generation. if you go back and look at the dr. martin luther king's speech when he spoke here, the world did not change overnight. after he spoke, the governor of alabama, george wallace said there would be a new funeral in alabama. three weeks after the speech, a church in mobile, alabama was bombed. four beautiful black children will killed and 20 others injured. it is up to us to reverse this violence. it is up to us to demand

excellence. it is up to us to make sure that every single child in this country gets a world-class education. we have to march together. we have to work together. we have to make sure all of us are accountable. parents, turn off those television that night and read to your children. be part of the solution. educators, we have to stop making excuses. we have to stop talking about other people's shoulders. these are our children. we have to work together. pastors, if you're churches are full on sunday but empty monday through saturday, you are part of the problem. open up those charges. bring people in the [applause] community members, every school has to be a great school whether you have children at school or not. tudor, a volunteer, coach, mentor, the part of the solution. the students themselves, give a

hand to all of our young people today. [applause] we are here for them. they are the future. our young people have to take their education very seriously. if they work hard, they go to college, they have a world of opportunity. if they don't, if they drop out, there are no options. the dividing line in our country today is not a round white and black but around educational opportunity. it is the civil rights issue of my generation. if we can get every single child in this country and education, our country will move to a different level. we will not continue to struggle. we have waited too long. we have been too complacent. we have been too satisfied to have second-class schools. we have chosen complaisance and drop as part we can no longer do that. we have to step up and work together and a demand excellence

and now, not 40 years from now, not five decades from now, now, we have to fulfill dr. king's legacy. god bless and thank you for your hard work. thank you [applause] . >> ladies and gentlemen, let us now get ready. i would like to bring to the podium to introduce our keynote speaker, the national executive director of national action network. please welcome ,tameka mallory. >> good afternoon, on behalf of the national action network, her chapters and members, i would like to thank all of you for your presence here today. for those of you who have traveled from as far as los angeles or as near as mississippi avenue se washington, we thank you. we thank you for your partnership in this ongoing

dirty as we continue our quest to reclaim the dream. it was 47 years ago that a great american stood here in the united states capitol to claim his dream. the rev. dr. martin luther king jr. had a dream that one day all americans would receive equal justice, justice, not based on the color of their skin but the content of their character. today, i am excited that we can celebrate the many accomplishments of african- americans. people of color still struggle with the plethora of issues that are eating away at the very core of our community. we struggle with inadequate education of our young people which is based on where they live and not what they can become. we struggle with the heads of our households being under employed or not employed at all

we are still the last hired and the first fired. we struggle with minority businesses being marginalized and undercapitalized. we struggle with the recycling pandemic of gun violence in urban centers across america. our children have begun. they are hopeless, misdirected, and the american people choose to stand by and do nothing about it. father was son's murdered, gun violence i made a personal commitment on that day to lend my hand and by resources and my voice to help eradicate gun violence within our young people in this country today, at national executive director of one of the country's most effective civil-rights organizations, i am asking you

to join a national action network in that fight, the fight to save our young people all of the young people who have joined us here today, please go back home and tell the young people, your friends, to put down their weapons, it turned away from gang violence, and turned toward community building. put down your weapons, pick up your books, put down your weapons, pick up your pen, put down your weapons, prepare for your future, chase your dreams, have hope, the future is surely in your hands. finally, as we face the difficulties of the day, we still have a powerful dream to reclaim. it is a dream that is deeply rooted in the promise of american. together, we can make that dream a reality. in order to do that, we must

take back our communities one by one pare and challenge ourselves. we must take back our community so our children are cell. we must show up. show up at your child's school. show up on your job, committed to excellence and a brighter future. show up in our homes of our families are nurtured and protected. we must show at the polls so our voices are heard. most importantly, we must not wait for others to do for us what we can absolutely do for ourselves. in the spirit of dr. martin luther king, i say to you, go back, go back, brothers and sisters, go back to new york, go back to atlanta, go back to philadelphia, go back to

houston, go back to california, go back to your communities knowing that united we will reclaim the dream. [applause] in this coming our, there is a person on the international scene who carries the mantle of civil-rights and social justice. as the legacy passed down from martin luther king jr., this same person not only speaks for the voiceless but acts with power for those who have no power. we are here at dunbar high school today because he has ensured that education, equality the the civil rights issue of our time. this same person embodies the hopes and dreams of the current generation. sometimes bloody but neverbowed, sometimes castigated but never

compromise, confronted but always remaining courageous. i want to bring to you people's leader, a drum major for justice and the president of the national action network, the rev. dr. al sharpton. [applause] >> no justice? no justice? no justice? what do we want? what we want? what do we want? when do we want it? when do we want it? when do we want it? when do we want it? when we want it? when do we want it? when do we want it? hug the person next to you and tell them to reclaim the drain.

eam.e -- a dream. let me thank everyone of you who came from all over the country. this is not a rally, this is a march. we are getting ready to line the streets of washington by the thousands. because others march, we have a different light. we have to keep that going so that our children will have an even better life than us. somebody said why are you all marching? why are you all rallying? they call as trouble makers.

the folks that used to criticize us for marching are trying to have a march themself [applause] . we come because the dream has not been achieved. we made a lot of progress, but we still have a long way to go. i spoke last night at howard university [applause] i am going to have brandon cause be before i leave. i told the students to not mistake progress for rivals. i was on a flight from new york to atlanta about a half-hour into the flight, we ran into a storm.

we got into turbulence. the plane started shaking. the plane started dropping. i looked out the window and could not see because it was cloudy. for about 15 minutes, and we went through a terrible storm. after a while, when we cleared the storm, and i saw sunshine, i did not get off the plane. we just got through the storm, we had not arrived yet. just because we got through the storm does not mean that we arrived. we are still unemployed black to white. we are not there yet. we are still for grades behind in reading and mathematics. we are not there yet. we are still the last hired and first fired. we are not there yet. we are still spending more money bringing democracy to capitals overseas when we do not have democracy for the citizens

of washington, the say [applause] d.c. [applause] . we are not there yet. when we leave here today, we are leaving like they did 47 years ago. we are leaving to say we must have a jobs bil that will close the gap and those that will not vote for us, we want not vote for them. this is not about a one day thing. we need to show up. they think we showed up in 2008 and they are banking on is not to show up now. we know how to sucker punch you. we are coming out in 2010 but we have just begun to fight and we will not let you turn back the clock the [applause]

we need an education policy that will close the gap. we are not interested in throwing away our children. these are our children the new racism is to tell them do not expect to be nothing. don't try to be nothing. i want you to know that i don't care what their background is, they can learn. they can make it, and we will fight with all of our strength to raise their children a. up [applause] our children cannot believe that their only option is to be a thug and a gangster. our children cannot take off their malcolm t-shirts and put on scarred face. we did not come this far to be gangsters. we are the philosophers. we are the astrologers. we know what knowledge is and we must rise back to the true glory of who we are [applause]

we must still come up with the corporations, that come into our communities and make profits but will not do business. we will deal with the private sector. just this week, we met those black and latino advertising firms that unilaterally dismissed burger king. we don't have to have a. walker if you cannot -- would don't have to havewhopper. if you can't do business with us, you can take yourwhopper somewhere else. [applause] let me say this -- there is some confusion. i will say more on the other side but i wanted to straighten this out for some of my brothers and sisters in the media.

there is a story in the bible. where there were some that sought a man named joe. smith -- named joseph. he had a code of many club -- many colors. there were his brothers that were jealous of him. he annoyed them. he bothered them because he kept talking about his dream. and finally, they plotted and killed him. and threw him into the pit and said," let's leave them there." they plotted to kill him. they thought they killed it. they put him in a pet and said let's leave.

what becomes of his dream? well, there was another man named martin luther king who came to washington, d.c. 47 years ago and he talked about a. a dream the left here -- he left here and went to selma and he kept and knowing them. he got us the right to vote. he got us the right to public accommodations. they slayed him and when they him in th epit, we went in with them and started breaking up our families. do not confuse the pit with pit stop because we're coming out of that pit today. i will show you what became of his dream. when dr. king came here 47 years ago, we came on the back of

buses. today, we flew in first class a [applause] . what became of his dream? we could not sleep a. hotel we could not use a restaurant i- 95 north. now, we have a public accommodations. what became of his dream? in 1963, they were asking kennedy to hear them. in 2010, because he went to summer, we have an african american presidents. . what became of his dream? rev. al, you drink too much. if you don't start with a dream, you won't wake up and do nothing. you have to see what is not there and wake up and make it happen. you have got to see what is

thought there and fight to make it happen. we are the children of dreamers. that sauce here when we could not see ourselves. we're the children of dreamers that looked down dogs and fire hoses in the face and defied death singing we shall overcome. we are the children of dreamers that took the most powerful country in the world and never fired one shot but turned the social order upside down. you don't know who you are messing with. we are folks who took something and made something happen. we took food stamps and welfare and reordered the economy. we are the children of the dreamers. why do i believe in the dream? internationally, i have seen it happen. there was a powerful man named winston churchill.

churchill one day heard about one of the colony's rebeling and he had 150,000 tribesmen put into an incarcerated area. one of those men suffered than. incarceration we lived through that area and kept on dreaming. that tribesman that was in bondage, his son is now the president of the united states. [applause] why do i believe in the train? one day george wallace stood on the steps of the university of alabama and blocked a young black man and a young black woman from going to college. we had to get the federal government to open the doors and let them in. george wallace did not know that the young black girl had a little sister and that little sister watched as they

threatened her sister going to that school. that girls little sister grew up and married a struggling young black lawyer. he is now the attorney general of the united states, eric holder. that is why i believe in the dream. [applause] when we announced this gathering, they said to me, "why go to a school because we must close the education gap?" later they told me that others will be at the mall and they will be standing where dr. king stood for it they may have a mall but we have the message. [applause] they may have the platform but we have the dream. the dream was not about states' rights.

in fact, if you read the dream, martin luther king talked about governors whose lips were tripping with the words of interposition and nullification and those who try to take his place are trying to nullify all law. look at arizona. they are trying to nullify state law. they are trying to oppose the civil-rights era just because you have the spot does not mean you are standing up to the drain. if you understood dreaming, you can drill anywhere. we don't have to be at the spot. all we need to be as do we are. we can dream from jail cells. we can dream from hospital beds. we can dream from wherever we are. [applause] while they are down there, they ought to ask a blink in to tell them why he fought against states' rights print and held the union together. they should read dr. king's

speech. then they need to talk to some of us who came up the rough side of the mountain. those that made against all odds. that is why we are marching. somebody said card is there going to be trouble today tax where will be no trouble but we would not disgrace the date by allowing you to provoke us no matter what you say, no matter what you do, we will celebrate those that led down their lives to give us change. [applause] this is not about them. this is about dr. king. this is about dr. height. we will walk together, black, white, latino, asian, straight, gay, it does not matter. those that believe in a dream, we will walk together and we will keep marching until we get statehood for the d.c. and we will keep marching until we close the education gap. we will mark. together

-- we will march together. i want you all to hear me carefully. we are going to line up and i want you to follow the march. do not rush pe. they are all going to act like there are only 2000 or 3000 of us in here. let the line stretched so we can show the world the real dreamers in town. do not be stepping on each other's heels. i am not through. we will do this orderly. if people start heckling, smile at them. if people try to distract you, keep your eye on the prize. we are going to where they're going to build a martin luther king mondamin. martin luther king iii will speak to us there. i wanted to know before we leave three people coming out as

the marchers come up, come out sister jenkins forum stand up for d.c., brandon harris, head of student government for howard university [applause] of thegregreplois teamsters. they represent how we will make this education bill work, education, youth, and independence. i want them to say a word as we get ready to line up. how many of you are ready to march? [applause] how many still believe in the drain? how many of you thank god for martin luther king? [applause] how many of you think dr. height that you can't control your cells. if you are so mad you cannot do what i'm asking, stay here. do not get out there cutting up by dr. king big. this is not your march.

you are not that met. ad. do not act like you cannot control yourself. you control yourself all the time. they want to disgrace to this day and we are not giving them this day. this is our day and we are not giving it away. [applause] we are going to line up. >> thank you everybody for being here to represent a march on behalf of martin luther king jr.. my name is anise jenkins and i represent stands up. i welcome you here to the nation's capital, the last plantation, the last colony. as long as you have 600,000 people living in the nation's capital paying the highest

federal taxes per person in the nation who do not have representation in the house or the senate and cannot get the $2.3 billion that we lose every year because we cannot tax people that work here and don't live here, we need your help. go back, and tell your senators, your congressperson, free the state make us the 51st state. your brothers and sisters are here waiting for your help. freak d.c. --free dc. i would be remiss if i did it acknowledge the 350,000 students from howard university. >> my name is brandon harris.

today we are here not just to reclaim a dream but to realize a vision. over the last 47 years, undoubtedly advances have been made by it is a battle for justice and equality. we must remember that every shovel reaches a turning point. we confront a world on the brink of monumental change, a new administration, accelerated globalization, and a society still unsure of how to cope with the issue of race. if there is anything the king's speech does is that the only way to deal with race is honorably and it directly. we cannot allow the man made and social construct to strip us of our natural god-given humanity. 47 years later, in spite of our technological and intellectual progression, we have begun to socially regroup as wheat usher in a new era where the dream has been blocked -- dimmed by ms. education. the king's speech was in 1963.

within the five years, he began the political and systematic implications of his dream through diplomatic -- through diplomatic reform. the war on poverty is still yet unfinished part of we always mention the speech but we never revisit the mission. yes we are trainers but more importantly, we are achievers for the true essence of leadership is our ability to cultivate one cohesive unit that can make a dream a reality. my generation does not ask for another train. we do not ask for a better speech. we truly just want to finish what king already started in 1963. [applause] if the civil rights movement was anything, it taught us that our greatest asset is not in our

athletic ability, intellectual ability, or musical ability but our ability to unify and speak as one and act as one and move as one. does not for the betterment of ourselves but for the benefit of all mankind. let's reclaim the dream and let's continue the mission, thank you. [applause] >> who are we? who are we? who are we? who are we? i will not take a lot of time because it has been a long dead. thank you rev. for putting this together. it was in 1968, 1968 this great speech was constructed. it was a dream that was bigger than expected. it was conceived before the assassination of our martin luther king.

he had a vision. within 40 years, we have the first black president of the united states. that is not by accident. that is by conception. we need to recognize and reclaim the dream for our kids, our history has been tarnished. this tea party based on fundamental beliefs, how can the reject or demonstrate against dr. martin luther king's chris speech. the very basic ideas that made this country great. do you know what that is like? we had a president who was a great republican. abraham lincoln. that is like them rejecting the gettysburg address. this is serious. i will not take a lot of time because we have resources.

we have relationships with the man who is connecting the dots. it is about building for the future of our kids and our grandkids and keep this dream alive. local 237. >> i will be brief. i will be brief because we all want to go march and we want to hear martin luther king iii space. we should give a round of applause for al sharpton for having this vision to put this together and make sure that we do not lose sight of why we are here. the teachers are here to support rev. dr. martin luther king jr. and his dream to reclaim it. when we needed him, he was here for us. we stand in solidarity with this social movement and labor and this social civil-rights

movement are one and the same period thank you. [applause] >> get a hand to the councilman who made this come together. i wanted to introduce him on the other side. as we get ready to line up, i need the teachers to help us. in the movement back in the day, they used to keep everything going as we line up. there was a song," your change will come." ♪ ♪

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