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"Sometimes the smaller things are the best things ever," said Mike, who has been living on the street for about two years.
30 years ago 1991 a group of activists joined me in starting the national action network. i had been an activist for 22 years then. i was in my 30s and had started when i was 12 or 13 as a youth director of operation bread basket. we fought that year the racial killing and the police brutality against rodney king, and we've fought many cases since then. we've fought for diversity in corporations and voting rights . tomorrow night in carnegie hall, we'll celebrate 30 years of staying on the case across the board, dealing with the issues. 30 years ago we got started, it was not even a realistic ...
Someone uses those gifts in ways that enhances humanity. aretha franklin was given special gifts but she used it in a special way. and she would not want us to celebrate her without talking about, she stood for something. she never shamed us. she never disgraced us. she never made us make excuses for her. she represented the best in our community and she fought for our community until the end. [ applause ] i first met miss franklin when i was a teenager. i had become youth director of new york operation bread basket. she would come to the strategy
Donald trump appears, does he not, determined to drag us back, not 30 years ago, but 100 years ago. >> no. he seems very determined. and he's determined with his policies to do that and his language. you and i have met with donald trump down through the years. i've known him 35 years. and marched on him, protested him and have met with him. all of my meetings with donald trump has been far more profane than profound. so i know that he used this kind of language. it is what he does. and no doubt he's calculated it. the irony is 36 years ago today, january 15th, '82, i was in my 20s. james brown...
Baltimore. and he put 10,000 of his own money into that bank to try to save it. that is $20 million today. it was said that bank did more to set free slaves and america back than ten more years of slavery. said so i think we're t dumb and stupid, we're brilliant. you level the playing field and we excel. we just don't know what we don't know that's killing us, but we think we know. and the memo delivers the rules that no one ever taught you and gets us updated to today. >> now, we need to deal with economic stability and economic growth, and i think that there's been a lot of emphasis and need...