When American Citizens Pull Together, There Is

One Of The Very Hallmarks Of Our Nation Is The Ideal Of E Pluribus Unum. It Is A Concept That Richly Flows From The Highest Ideals Of Our Nation.

You Need To Understand Something, You Drink Deeply From Wells Of Freedom And Liberty And Opportunity That You Did Not Dig. You Eat Lavishly From Banquet Tables Prepared For You By Your Ancestors. You Sit Under The Shade Of Trees That You Did Not Plant Or Cultivate Or Care For. You Have A Choice In Life, You Can Just Sit Back, Getting Fat, Dumb, And Happy, Consuming All The Blessings Put Before You, Or It Can Metabolize Inside Of You, Become Fuel To Get You Into The Fight, To Make This Democracy Real, To Make It True To Its Words That We Can Be A Nation Of Liberty And Justice For All.

We Now Know From A Princeton Study That Superfund Sites Are Causing Higher Rates Of Birth Defects. We Now Know That There's No Excusing The Lack Of Moral Urgency To Do Something About This Environmental Crisis. We See Flint, Michigan, For Example, And The Attention It's Gotten, But What Most Americans Don't Seem To Realize Is That This Lead Problem Is Not Confined To Just Flint. There Are Over 3,000 Jurisdictions That Have Twice The Lead Levels In People's Blood Than Flint Does. We're Now Seeing More People Being Exposed To The Truth About Environmental Injustice In Our Country.

Speaking As Somebody Who Voted Against Tpa And Has A Lot Of Suspicions About Trans Pacific Partnership That Are Reflected In Our Concerns About What's Hurting The American Economy And What The Opportunity Is To Grow, I Have To Say I Like A Person Like Hillary Clinton Who Is Willing To Analyze The Facts. I Have Met No One Smarter Than Her In Politics.

If You Understand The Black Lives Matter Movement, There's No Central Leadership Of The Movement. This Is An Organic, Grassroots Movement All Around America.