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Not be sitting in this chair. congressman lewis that s the truth because of race, because of the heart issue of race. and think about it, this group of young men, congressman john lewis was before he became a congressman. he was a young guy who wanted to go to troy university and dr. king said if you go to troy you will be the first black person there. but your house could your family could lose the land they own. for a black family that was a lot. he decided not to go to troy. but troy state where he decided to march with dr. king. at a time when race in the south we saw strange fruit hanging from a tree. meaning we saw people being lynched and there s no federal antilynching laws. people being lynched for the color of their skin. people being denied access to the lunch counter. ....
As stacey abrams said, you know, you do not stop having your right to assemble if you don t go to a meeting for a year, because you don t go to a church or synagogue or mosque for three months, you don t lose your right to worship, you shouldn t lose your right to vote. i would pass as president my bill to register every kid in this country when they turn 18 to vote. that would make all of these discriminatory actions in these states go away. and i would stop the gerrymandering. in addition to the agenda of economic opportunity. because as martin luther king said, what good is it to integrate a lunch counter if you can t afford a hamburger? thank you, senator. let s now turn to the issue of foreign policy and the middle east. senator sanders. secretary of state mike pompeo recently declared that the united states believes israel. do not violate international law. that broke decades long u.s. precedent. ....
That would make all of these discriminatory actions in these states go away. and i would stop the gerrymandering. in addition to the agenda of economic opportunity. because as martin luther king said, what good is it to integrate a lunch counter if you can t afford a hamburger? thank you, senator. let s now turn to the issue of foreign policy and the middle east. senator sanders. secretary of state mike pompeo recently declared that broke decades long precedent. how would you respond to israeli settlement? would you link that to foreign aid to israel? israel has and i say this as somebody who lived in israel as a kid, proudly jewish. they have a right to exist in peace and security. but what but what u.s. ....
State? well, i will tell you that all of this kept me very busy. okay. i get that. but, no day-to-day things that you are responsible for? other than not qualifying for overseas and anything, is your conversations being affected by recalled by where you were? are you worried of the way you are treated by your fellow employees and state? do they shun you at the lunch counter or treat you badly as a result of how you were treated by the president. i received an out pouring support. the folks that you respect the most still respects you and holding you in high regard and affections? i do. george kent was in here, he made some statements about you, all of us would like to be a ....
We re there in terms of the national will. but how do you move the will in washington? yeah, i see people doing it right now. and someone referenced this last night, but you look back at the civil rights movement, you look back to the a.n.t. forum sitting at that wool worth s lunch counter. they shocked the conscience of the country. how also does a white majority in 1964 pass the civil rights act, the next year the voting rights act? they just engaged the conscience of so many of our fellow americans, white and black, to put pressure on the members of congress to override the filler busters that were employed at the time. i think it s going to be someone like that. there s no one person as the next president of the united states that s going to make this happen. it s those grassroots groups like moms demand, march for our lives, it s those student walking out of classrooms like ....