This is just under two hours. Praise the lord. Praise the lord. We will alsoe childhood home no justice, no peace. No justice, no peace. What do we want . Justice. When do we want it . Now when do we want it . Now without further adieu, let us hear from our first speaker for the rally in front of the Justice Department, that is here now from Jay David Cox senior, the National President of afge. No justice, no peace. Brothers and sisters, i come to you today from the American Federation of government employees. The people that said, government is good and government should stand for all of its citizens in an equal mannerism. Brother and sisters, i come to you today with love. Its time to that we bring back love to this country. Lets stop and think. Hatred of the stranger, people who are different. People who come from somewhere else. Speak another language. Have different couples, eat different food. The bible is the oldest document that challenges that. The Old Testament says the stranger as a native because our ancestors were strangers in the land of egypt and knew what slavery in opposition were all about it in the new testament, matthew tells us the love of strangers i was hungry and you gave me food. I was thirsty and you gave me drink and i was a stranger and you welcomed me in. Brothers and sisters, it is not just our neighbors we must love and treat with me drink and i was a stranger resps all gods children. Deserves children were respect, dignity, security, hospitality and comfort. Godre all children of one and everything we say and do must follow from that basic truth. Who are we to turn away and ignore poverty in the midst of the enormous quest of this great country and land of plenty. Who are we to turn away and ignore injustice in a nation with a constitution and a set of laws guaranteeing equal protection and a right to vote in this country, brothers and sisters. Who are we to refuse to care for this world and give stewardship that god expect of us. We must heed the voices of the prophet. We shall not turn away from our responsibilities brothers and sisters. Brothers and sisters, there is no room for hatred in this country. We cannot continue to tolerate hatred brothers and sisters. I will speak from my heart now. You hear this southern boy . You hear this southern voice. Its time to take those statues down right now brothers and sisters its time to take them down but, we the base so we have to tell our children that and our grandchildren what an evil wicked thing this country did. We will never go back. Mr. Trump, i tell you this, afge well open up on you. Thank you, brothers and sisters. I dont know if thats in the thank you, brothers and sisters. Bible, but all right. Next speaker is my big brother. He is the president of impact. Which is a National Organization of ministers engaged in economic and social justice and empowerment. He is the Senior Pastor of mount nemo Baptist Church in historic harlem, new york. Senior pastor, johnny green. No justice no peace. No justice no peace. Al sharpton, president and founder of the National Action network. Civil rights leader of the 21st century. Our drum major for justice and one who reminds us daily, where theres no justice, theres no peace. Thousands of ministers, rabbis and imams come together to say thank you for the 54th anniversary of the march on washington. Were here today for some of the same reasons those who have gone before us came here 54 years ago. Were here today because many of those who sit in the seat of power, the president , the Republican Congress and the republican senate, they have once again written us a bad check. The check written to millions of americans black, brown, jewish, muslim and many others come back stamped with insufficient funds. Were here today at the department of justice to say that we refuse to issuing of another bad check. When you try to take away health care for more than 26 million americans. Youre trying to issue us on bad check. When you cosign killings of people of color in the name of law and order, leave black body laying in the street and refuse to hear our cries of i cant breathe while choking us to death, you trying to issue us another bad check. When you take away food stamps from the poor and needy and you build airports, Governor Andrew Cuomo with our tax dollars without giving contracts to blacks and minorities, you trying to issue us another bad check. Were here today to say hell no to your bad check writing were here today to serve notice to all the dream busters, both in washington bark at home in new york and across america. Were not going to let you turn dr. Kings dream into a nightmare. The dream of dr. King still i dream today. We shall and we will overcome. We will overcome trumpism. Well overcome racism, classism and sexism. Well overcome gentrification of our system. Well overcome devastation of our people caused by this new spirit of jim and jane crow. Well turn your stumble block into steppingstone. Well turn your midnight into midday. No weapons formed against us shall prosper. Well endured. Joy has come in the morning. Let me remind all of us here today that above the crowd, written the word and too shall pass away. Let us remind all of us today that we should stand up and we should stand together. God bless you. Another bad brother, big brother of mine from the city small city you may have heard in chicago, illinois. Let us hear from the president of the leadership action network, reverend marshall hatch. Good afternoon. Today our prayer are with the people in houston, texas and those victims in hurricane harvey. We pray for the success of that rescue and recovery. This crisis reminds us once more demonstrates that we are all in this together. We may have come on dinner ships, the mayflower, slave ship, immigration ship or across the rio grand. We are now all in this boat together. Now is a time to lifted the voice of faith. Someone has to calling. Someone has to accept the assignment to halt our nations dissent into the slippery slope of fascism and racism and attack on our brothers. This is not a normal american government. Somebody has to have the courage that little boy had in the nursery rhyme to remind the country that this emperor has no clothes. Firing the attorney general to stop an investigation of foreign meddling into our election. This is not normal. Pardoning sheriff convicted of contempt of court and racial profiling. This is not normal. Press briefings from the white house untelevised and filled with misinformation, this is not normal. Threaten nuclear war and rumor of war by a president by tweet is not normal. Refusing to condemn racism and antisemitism is not normal. Somebody has to have the courage to stand up and say this emperor has no clothes. Were called as prophets. This scapegoating of those who are most vulnerable, reminds what was said that came for the muslims and i was not a muslim and i did not speak up. They came for the jews and i was not a jew, so i did not speak up. They came for the communist, i did not speak up. Then when it came time to come for me, there was no one to speak up. Now is a time to lift our voices for justice. Brothers and sisters, we call on this step of the Justice Department for a new moral vision for america. Everybody in and nobody out. When i grew up in Public Housing in chicago and went to the public school, we were taught to put our hands on our hearts and pledge allegiance of justice to all. Now we say healthcare for all. The right to vote for all. Freedom from Police Brutality for all. Full employment for all. Access to a high quality Public Education for all. We call for the dignity of all of gods children. Everybody got a right to the tree of life. We challenge you with the challenge of the good shepard. Who taught his disciples to go into the valleys and low places and gather those who have been scattered. Like sheep that had no shepard. Gather those who had been scattered that were diseased and were isolated and disconnected one from the other. Go back home. Go to the valleys. Go to the barrios. Go to the ghettos and feed the sheep and register them. We have heard from the voices of fascism. In 2018 well hear from the people. This is what america looks like. We shall overcome. In the spirit of dr. King the diversity that reverend al sharpton gathered here today continues now with one of our jewish temples. Please welcome rabbi Hannah Goldstein of temple sinai. Please welcome her warmly. Im rabbi Hannah Goldstein here in washington, d. C. My congregation is like many of your congregations. We will not stand idly by. This has a sacred season for jews. At the very end of this period of soul searching and introw expense, we sing words from psalm 118. We conclude our worship by crying out to god [indiscernible] open the gates of righteousness. We are here to open the gates. To open the gates of righteousness. The open the gates of justice. We are here because it doesnt look like our Justice Department is trying to do that. Lately, it seems like our Justice Department is working overtime to close those gates and to barricade them shut. To lock the gates to the voting booths. To lock the gates of the private prisons after filling them to capacity. They want to lott gates to this to lock the gates to our hospitals and clinics. Today i stand with my brothers and sisters, people of faith to say that when our Justice Department closes the gates, together, we will push them back open. Let me hear you say it, open the gates. Open the gates if they punish sanctuary cities, well open wide the door of our sanctuaries who are vulnerable. Open the gates. If they band Transgender Americans from defending the values of this country, we will defend our values by standing with them in solidarity. Open the gates. If theyre going to send tweets about the devastating destruction in texas, were going to send food and diapers and people to help. Open the gates. If theyre going to build walls then were just going to have to open the gates. Lift each other up higher. Open the gates. If they want to teach hate, we are just going to have to love harder. Open the gates. Because of this, we are certain, they are not truly the gatekeepers. They are not the ultimate gatekeeper. They can try to barricade those gates closed. We will walk tall and unafraid. We will keep marching right up to those gates. We will push on those gates. With our bodies, with our voices with our words and song and prayers. We will open the gates. Arm in arm well open the gate and well walk through the gates into a land of righteousness. Into a land of justice. Into a land of love. Together, we will open the gates. Rabbi Hannah Goldstein. Of course, we hear on the anniversary of the march on washington. We know the organization dr. King founded correct . Lets say it out loud. Sclc. Please welcome the president , the reverend dr. Charles steele. Thank you so much. Let the church say amen. Im so happy to be here. Little bit under the weather. But i made it anyhow. God is good. I want to thank reverend al sharpton for bringing us together. Give him a big round of applause. I want to thank him. I want to thank Martin Luther king iii for being here. Give him a big round of applause. Hes always on the battlefield. In the position that im in, people always ask the question, charles, you all still marching . I was in mississippi three times in the last two months. In miss, thats where dr. King first in public. He served. He said ralph, now is the time to go to washington d. C. We are embarking upon poor people campaign, 2018. I asked the mayor and other leaders, in mississippi, i say, 50 years ago, roughly almost, dr. King was here. I want to ask you a question. Has anything changed in 50 years . They say yes. But it changed for the worse. He said were still poor. We dont have teachers to bring the education pross. We have no recreation facilities. As i thought about it, i said many of us think we have arrived in case you feel like that, you got youre not there yet. You got to get back on the bus. It was dr. King who said, hate cant drive out hate. He also said, darkness cant drive out darkness. Only light can do that. But he also said, i dont fool with no scared negroes. You cant be afraid in this type of stuff. You know we have to stay on the battlefield. Let them come after me. You got to die anyhow. Let me die for freedom and justice and equality for all gods children. Matter of fact, i own a funeral home. Let my funeral home bury me. Ill remised if i didnt say this. This is my last point. Sclc is not going anywhere. Were here to stay. Im going to say this and go to my step. I left atlanta this morning. It was a ceremony going on at 10 00. People are not going to tell how powerful you are at the civil rights movement. They think you dont need it anymore. Ladies and gentlemen, let me give you some good news. Three years ago, sclc demanded to the government and legislature, to erect statue in state of georgia in atlanta of Martin Luther king jr. Im here to tell you today, at 10 00 this morning while its here in d. C. , the statue was erected for dr. Martin luther king jr. In atlanta, georgia at the State Capitol. Im serving notice. We going to every State Capitol in this country. Me going to demandt t fired up aint going take it no more. Reverend dr. Charles steele. Were going to stay with the first name. Charles here representing the Michigan State chapter of National Action networ dr. Charles william as he comes. First of all, let us give ou to our president , reverend al sharpton. 5000 of us. We have descended upon the department of justice. We are here for trayvon martin. This historic event has brought us here, pass doors, imams, clergy, we are here for michael brown. Castile. We are here to protect Voting Rights. We are here to let our president know we will not stand for racism. We will not stand for bigotry. We will stand together against you and where there is no justice, there will be no peace. Thank you very much. We appreciate dr. Williams. Thats how you do it. Joining us now the Virginia Baptist State Convention president. The reverend dr. Charles whitfield. Please welcome him. Brothers and sisters good afternoon. As we stand here today, the message of dr. Martin luther king jr. Is the strength on which we stand. Which is something bigger than each and every one of us. I stand together representing the 650 churches of the Virginia Baptist State Convention. Can i suggest what we preach a jesus gospel. Social justice is what jesus preached. Proverbs 27 7 the righteous is concerned for the rights of the poor. But the wicked does not understand such concern. We stand here today because jew and gentile alike, jesus said i come for both of them. But the political pendulum has been swinging far too much away from those of color. The poor, the disenfranchise and the downtrodden. Those who chose to remove the sheets. In charlottesville and in yourville have revealed a cancer thats been festering underneath skin and immorally metastasizing sizing and truth be told since election of barack obama. Charlottesville is where its happening and where we need to do. Those of us who are here today weve got to preach truth to power. If the government chooses not to denounce the extremism and bigotry and the blatant hatred and murder in america, let the preacher stand up in his or her voice. Let the layperson stand up and prof sigh and preach truth to power and declare the love of jesus christ in the midst of hatred thats running rabid in this land. If you can help me say it and not just say it but do it when we leave here, speak truth to power speak truth to power. Speak truth to power amen. Please welcome now from the city of refuge, city of refugee. City of Refuge United Church of please welcome now from the city christ, Bishop Yvette please welcome her. Can you shout with me hallelujah. We shall prevail. Im a pentecostal. You have to look at your neighbor and say hallelujah. We shall not be moved. I have deep respect for the universal truth that is expressed in all religion. But spiritual and culture identity is im evolving pentecostal. I come from a teaching that says that when a dedicated group of believers come together with one accord, theyre able to work through their divisions and dismantle their differences and diffuse the thing that separate them. God honors their ability and the holy ghost, thats what my folks called. The holy ghost will give ability to peek in language that are foreign to them. Speaking in tongues, vehicle to eradicate the barriers that divide the human family. Speaking in tongue and empowering those believers to move across cultures and religions. I say it is time for a new pentecost. When we name the same bigotry that is forced on colored people, to use separate bathrooms and that same bigotry is forced on transgender people, about their viability as human beings, we need a new pentecost. We decide that the ban on color people from serving in the military, is the same bigotry which called for a ban on transgender men and women from serving and dying in the military, i say we need a new pentecost. When we decide that emmitt tills murderers being set free is the same bigotry that inspires the foolish pardon of a sheriff who blatantly breaking the law. The two of the same sin, then we are ready for new pentecost. When we did that the fight for black lives matter includes black gay men and black lesbian women who blackness is not compromised by their sexuality it is time for a new pentecost. When we decide to call religious compromised by their sexuality freedom another name for bigotry when wearing our colors and talking to our megachurch audiences, bigotry is bigotry. We will experience a new pentecost. When we decide that food justice and Environmental Concerns and womens rights and mass i