Howard Dean
May. 1st, 2003 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brdgtThey finally posted the transcript of Howard Dean's appearance at the JFK Library on March 26, if you want to check it out. I really hope WGBH gets around to providing video of it.
Choice excerpt:
"What are we doing being silent when the President of the United States uses the word quota eight times on national television? There are no quotas now at the University of Michigan. There never has been quotas. Quota is a racially loaded word designed to appeal to people's fears of losing their jobs and their places in our best schools to folks of color. This country depends on all of us uniting as a people, building a community, standing together. That's what this country is all about. I am tired of being divided by race. I am tired of being divided by income. I am tired of being divided by gender. I am tired of being divided by sexual orientation. I am tired of taking my orders from the fundamentalist preachers and the right-wing talk show hosts.
I plan to stand up for an America that we built in my generation, an America that struggles every day, but is committed to equal justice under the law for all Americans, an America that struggles every day, but understands the hard work that working people have to do to put food on their tables, working three jobs in two-parent families to hope one day their kids may be able to go to college too. I want America to stand up for itself. I want our country back, and we're going to take it back, and you're going to help me. Thank you very, very much."
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Choice excerpt:
"What are we doing being silent when the President of the United States uses the word quota eight times on national television? There are no quotas now at the University of Michigan. There never has been quotas. Quota is a racially loaded word designed to appeal to people's fears of losing their jobs and their places in our best schools to folks of color. This country depends on all of us uniting as a people, building a community, standing together. That's what this country is all about. I am tired of being divided by race. I am tired of being divided by income. I am tired of being divided by gender. I am tired of being divided by sexual orientation. I am tired of taking my orders from the fundamentalist preachers and the right-wing talk show hosts.
I plan to stand up for an America that we built in my generation, an America that struggles every day, but is committed to equal justice under the law for all Americans, an America that struggles every day, but understands the hard work that working people have to do to put food on their tables, working three jobs in two-parent families to hope one day their kids may be able to go to college too. I want America to stand up for itself. I want our country back, and we're going to take it back, and you're going to help me. Thank you very, very much."
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