those who game to america, europe was into collective everything, they came to america and these guys said no, it s individuals, you and god and that s why we established a freedom of conscious, not for the group, a quaker can say i m close to oppose to war, we ll let you off. take an oath, affirmation. throughout history because of conscious, that s one-on-one and we did the same thing with freedom of religion. you have the right to practice your religion not only as a group, but as an individual. all the way through it was individuals and what s so cool is it was preachers who did that, those guys who came, i mean, the first constitution we ever have written in the history of the country, 1638, the reverend thomas hooker who said, oh, wait a minute, god gave us the written word so every one of us can go to his word and know exactly what they want. and every one of you can go to the government and know what the contract is. three years later. nathaniel warden the first bill of rights
this victim narrative about blacks in the united states. that the only role they played was a victim to white majority oppression. when i teach my course on black american politics i always stress to my students when we talked about king and the civil rights movement in 50 s and 60 s we need to call it the modern civil rights movements because blacks from before the revolution were pressing, prudently, pressing foretheir rights. m american history could be one long civil rights, emancipation proclamation and it s going on now, it s people trying to grab other s rights. that never changes, that s human nature, that s human history. if i asked the audience when did america have its first african-american judge, what year would you say? anybody? take a guess.
. 47 years ago my uncle, dr. martin luther king, jr. stood here and proclaimed, i have a dream. i was at home with the younger children when daddy king senior and mama king. we all knew that august 28th would be a very special day. if uncle martin could be here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due. he would surely remind us that if brothers and sisters united by one blood, in one single race, the human race, we are called to honor god and to love each other. i, too, have a dream. it is in my genes. i have a dream that one day soon love will transcend skin color and economic status and
in my stead for me, i have to stand in my stead before him and give an account of my life. that s not collectism, that s individual. i think that s lost in our conversation. what we re seeing, glenn, we re seeing an unholy mixture, a strange fire added to the scriptures and it s a marxist idea. we ve got to be careful because marxism, socialism, communism, they have one thing in common, they do not believe in god and attempting to create a utopia here on earth that s generated and fostered by mankind and the bible says put no trust in man and they re attempting to achieve it through an eagletainer redistribution of wealth and take from the haves and give to the have notes, that s anti-bible. god created each of us in his own i am imagine and likeness and our rights are gifts from gods. so do we have rights as
stood for and now, when i see speaker pelosi with the african-americans gathered around here and they re really trying to tear down the dream, to destroy the american dream of life, liberty and the pursuant of happiness for one family, one human family, i think it s a travesty and i just ask america, i beg america, please, don t be moved by your emotions. when you see a group of people in what appears to be a civil rights effort, look into the history and see what they re really saying. next, the african-americans next, the african-americans ñ÷÷ñppeceded the civil rights