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Andfather was an academic president of a college in pennsylvania. School up at a quaker which was obviously an integrated quaker school. Graduated, the family moved to atlanta which he tells me was for him a terrifying experience because of all that he had heard that happens to africanamericans. He started at Morehouse College and in 1960 was a cofounder of the student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which is one of the majors for those of you are not old enough to older history, one of the major activist organizations of to know your history, one of the major activist organizations of the ...

[applause] maybe maybe, mr. President. But im afraid not. Because the truth is, ladies and gentlemen, that this is how we were warned it would be. President reagan told us from the very beginning that he believed in a kind of social darwinism. Survival of the fittest. Government cant do everything, we were told, so it should settle for taking care of the strong and hope that economic ambition and charity will do the rest. Make the rich richer, and what falls from the table will be enough for the middle class and those who are trying desperately to work their way into the middle class. You know...

For three years in a row. Something else he said was good news. In a row. S trust me on this. He said the organization is hale and hearty and alive and well, and i am proud to be associated with it. What has it meant for the Civil Rights Movement that you have been involved in for your entire life and still are as the chairman of the naacp, to have a black man in elected as president of the United States. It means the work we have doing since 1909 is worth it. We were talking together and joked upstairs about how the headline in the onion the day after obama got it, black man gets worst job in...

What do you feel about the Current Supreme Court . Julian bond they are awful. They are not all awful but the majority is awful. I cant quote this exactly so i hope youll understand. You read the decision in the almart case. Justice scalia writes that business is always hire the very best people. [laughter] there is no reason they would not hire the very best people. Therefore the argument the other people are making is nonsense. If you have that kind of reasoning, how can you expect anything but garbage to come out . And garbage came out of him this time and in other decisions they made. It i...

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