I Believe The Measure Of A Man

Mark My Words.it Will Not Be Six Months Before The World Tests Barack Obama Like They Did John Kennedy. The World Is Looking. We're About To Elect A Brilliant 47-year-old Senator President Of The United States Of America. Remember I Said It Standing Here If You Don't Remember Anything Else I Said. Watch, We're Gonna Have An International Crisis, A Generated Crisis, To Test The Mettle Of This Guy.

I Was In Sit-ins To Desegregate Restaurants And Movie Houses In The '60s.

Some Studies Have Shown Close To 70 Percent Of Men Who Are In Prison Have One Of Two Things In Common: One, They Can't Read. And Two, They Witnessed Violence Or Were Victims Of Violence As A Child. You Would Think That If You Had Seen Your Mother Get Beaten When You Were 10 Years Old, You'd Never Raise Your Hand To A Woman. Not True. The Prospect That You Will Increases Dramatically If You Witness Violence. So It's So Much Bigger Than Just About Women. It's About Our Society. It's About Our Culture. It's About Who The Hell We Are.

In My Neighborhood, When You've Got Something To Say To A Guy, You Look Him In The Eye And You Say It To Him.

Here At Home, When Americans Were Standing In Long Lines To Give Blood After The Attack On The World Trade Center And The Pentagon, We Squandered An Obvious Opportunity To Make Service A Noble Cause Again, And Rekindle An American Spirit Of Community.