a very famous, very notable animal rights leader, a law professor at rutgers, and he has come up with abolition obviously borrowing from the abolition of slavery. and realize that animal rights activists believe that what is done to an animal should be perceived in the same way as we would perceive the same thing being done to a human being. therefore, since cattle ranching in false control what cattle do and where they go, it is an odious to slaver. this is what is literally believed by true animal rights believer, not an animal welfare believe which will get into, but in animal rights believer. gary is very candidate he cooperated in my book. he knew i was going to criticize him, but he agreed to be interviewed, and i trust and i tried very hard to present his position, not only accurately in terms of what he said but also accurately in context that that was very important to me, because i consider gary to be very radical, but he's a principled radical. i disagree with him completely but he is candid about what he believes in, and he has a lot to tell us. and he said to me, quote we

never forget in a small meeting, she rallied the women's movement to make sure we stood up for the rutgers women's basketball team, and we take on don imus. that's right. and we did. this is a woman who could stand there with president kennedy when they passed the equal pay act for women, and yet lived to see and stand there with president obama signing the fair pay act, and the hate crimes act bill. [applause] >> she kept on keeping on, and i can tell you, we will also keep on keeping on in her memory. the women's movement, the civil rights movement, the social justice movement, you bet,ow stand hand in hand. [applause] >> women leadership in the house. thank you so much. i want anyone who leaves early, there's a ticket to get out, and it's filling this envelope. anyone who doesn't have one should raise his or her hand and we'll make sure the ushers pass them out. this is critical. it's a contribution to the national council of negro women so we can continue the work that dr. dorothy lived and gave her life for. and the obama team is in the house tonight. valerie jarrett, counselor to the

in political science from rutgers university. dr. samples. >> thank you very much, brandon. i'm happy to say that i don't have any disagreements with congressman sensenbrenner which is a good thing because he was here and lived through it and i did not. i just read about it in books and occasionally talked to people. i think one of the things he mentioned bears repetition because it's, one, an important factor on this that is often forgotten. which is -- and i will generalize it. the american political system that's in the constitution and the parts that have come down to us are not designed to bring about large changes in policy and in law. they are designed to make it difficult to bring about those changes. and it was done so so that you wouldn't simple majority rule. now, the result of that is if you really want to limit government, and i believe both reagan and the reagan administration, certainly david stockman and again, the new class of house republicans that year genuinely wanted to limit government. but in the context in which we live, that is in the post-new deal e