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It Was Very Clear To Me In 1965, In Mississippi, That, As A Lawyer, I Could Get People Into Schools, Desegregate The Schools, But If They Were Kicked Off The Plantations - And If They Didn't Have Food, Didn't Have Jobs, Didn't Have Health Care, Didn't Have The Means To Exercise Those Civil Rights, We Were Not Going To Have Success.

It's Deeply Rooted In The American Psyche. Black Men Have Always Been Viewed As The Other, Which Leads To A Different Application Of The Laws. The Current Laws Are An Obscenity. More Black Men Are Locked Up For Using Pot Than White Folk Are For Far More Serious Crimes.

It's Time For Greatness - Not For Greed. It's A Time For Idealism - Not Ideology. It Is A Time Not Just For Compassionate Words, But Compassionate Action.

You Can't Tell Parents To Teach Children The Value Of Work When We Don't Have Jobs And The Jobs We Have Don't Pay A Decent Wage. You Can't Tell Children To Achieve And Then Let Them Go To Broken-down Schools With Teachers Who Don't Care. We Need A Consistency Of Values In Our Public, Corporate, And Private Lives.

Children Under Five Are The Poorest Age Group In America, And One In Four Infants, Toddlers And Preschoolers Are Poor During The Years Of Greatest Brain Development.