Mr. Biden mr. Mayor, thanks for your hospitality, and to all the elected officials that are here, i bring you greetings. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. George floyds last words, but it didnt die with them, are still being heard echoing all across this nation. They speak to a nation where too often just the color of your skin put your life at risk. They speak to a nation where more than 100,000 people have lost their lives to violence, 40 million have filed for unemployment with a disproportionate number of those deaths and job losses concentrated in black and brown communities. They speak to a nation where every day millions of people, and millions, not a moment of losing the light but in the course of living the life are saying to themselves, i cant breathe. Mr. Biden its a wakeup call to our nation in my view. Its for all of us, and i mean all of us. Its not the first time we heard those words. They are the same words we heard from eric garner when his life was taken away six years
President trumps recent handling of the protest and called on congress to begin addressing racial injustice. Mr. Biden mr. Mayor, thanks for your hospitality, and to all the elected officials that are here, i bring you greetings. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. George floyds last words, but it didnt die with them, are still being heard echoing all across this nation. They speak to a nation where too often just the color of your skin put your life at risk. They speak to a nation where more than 100,000 people have lost their lives to violence, 40 million have filed for unemployment with a disproportionate number of those deaths and job losses concentrated in black and brown communities. They speak to a nation where every day millions of people, and millions, not a moment of losing their life, but in the course of living the life are saying to themselves, i cant breathe. Its a wakeup call to our nation in my view. Its for all of us, and i mean all of us. Its not the first time we heard t
I cant breathe. George floyds last words, but it didnt die with them, are still being heard echoing all across this nation. They speak to a nation where too often just the color of your skin put your life at risk. They speak to a nation where more than 100,000 people have lost their lives to violence, 40 million have filed for unemployment with a disproportionate number of those deaths and job losses concentrated in black and brown communities. They speak to a nation where every day millions of people, and millions, not a moment of losing their life, but in the course of living the life are saying to themselves, i cant breathe. Its a wakeup call to our nation in my view. Its for all of us, and i mean all of us. Its not the first time we heard those words. They are the same words we heard from eric garner when his life was taken away six years ago. But its time to listen to those words, to try to understand them, to respond to them, respond with action. They country is crying out for th
I bring you greetings. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. George floyds last words, but it didnt die with them, are still being heard echoing all across this nation. They speak to a nation where too often just the color of your skin put your life at risk. They speak to a nation where more than 100,000 people have lost their lives to violence, 40 million have filed for unemployment with a disproportionate number of those deaths and job losses concentrated in black and brown communities. They speak to a nation where every day millions of people, and millions, not a moment of losing the light but in the course of living the life are saying to themselves, i cant breathe. Its a wakeup call to our nation in my view. Its for all of us, and i mean all of us. Its not the first time we heard those words. They are the same words we heard from eric garner when his life was taken away six years ago. But its time to listen to those words come to try to understand them, to respond to them, respond with
clinton and civil rights leaders gather to honor and mark martin luther king jr. day at a breakfast hosted by the national action network here in washington. this is an hour and a half. good morning. as we gather today, first let me thank all of our honorees that we are saluting this year. it is important on king day that we do things in the spirit of dr. king. today, dr. king as a federal holiday was a result in and of itself of struggle. so we do a nots a take it as a off. we take it as a day on, to do something in the spirit of human rights andnd civil rights that . king stood for.n national action network startedn 28 years ago on those principles. and we ve been blessed to feder partner with martin luther kingl iii who thought it appropriate to spend this holiday every year with us at the breakfast. and he had brought his mother to our convention for many years. so we are in our dna king-like. and no year is more important than this year, because we are meeting on the m