The National Moral Monday movement organizes coordinated nonviolent protests across the United States to oppose the Middle East war and all forms of policy violence, including denying voting rights, healthcare, living wages, and climate action. The movement emphasizes that every person has inherent dignity and that the people have both the right and duty to resist unjust government policies through peaceful means, drawing on religious traditions that call for justice, peace, and the protection of all human life.
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Look at all the people they look at the people.
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Look at the people.
Look at all the people they just look at all the people having nowhere to live.
Look at all the people.
Look at all the people.
Look at the people.
I love all the people.
Look at all the people.
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>> Somebody say no justice.
No peace.
>> No peace.
>> Let's warm my voices up a little bit more. Okay.
>> When I say we want, you say justice. We want >> justice.
>> We want >> justice.
>> All right.
>> When I say we want, you say justice. We want >> justice.
>> We want justice.
>> When I say we want, you say justice. We want >> justice.
>> We want justice.
>> When I say no more, you say more.
>> No more.
>> No more.
>> When I say no more, you say war. No more.
>> No more.
>> When I say we want, you say healthare.
We want >> healthare.
>> We want healthare.
>> When I say we want, you say hotel. We want >> healthare.
>> We want healthare.
>> I say we want you say living. We want >> living. We want you say what we want.
>> We want you say justice. We want >> justice.
>> We want justice. When I say you say no more, you say peace.
We want you.
Say peace.
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>> When I say bring them, you say home.
Bring them home. Bring them. Bring them.
>> Bring them home. Bring them home. Bring them.
>> When I say no more, you say no more.
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>> Y'all like this justice >> now >> in three minutes.
>> The reason y'all was saying >> step forward.
start focusing on whatever.
>> Yeah. And make sure you're record.
>> Okay. So, it's gone. Reporting.
>> We are >> I think that's what >> going to take the street >> in front of the White House.
>> That's part of our escalation today.
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>> Part of the escalation today is taking the street in front of the White House >> and to speak with one voice. This is not about show horses. This is about workh horses.
>> And the main voices we're going to start with are those who've been here for seven weeks.
>> All right.
>> And and we also noted in 16 other states.
>> Then after we finish and we make a conclusion, we're going down to the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue.
There are some persons here who have said they must speak with their bodies.
>> All right.
>> About 30 of them must speak with their bodies.
and they must begin what may have to continue to grow. Now, I was told years ago, you don't protest in DC >> and you don't do certain things. But the time is far past for being >> casual.
>> Come on. Come on. Come on.
>> And we are not trying to get back to normal >> cuz normal what's got us here.
>> Right. Right. Right.
And this morning, one of the sisters was praying and she said, Hannah had her pray and I heard her and I said, "Hannah, what did she just say?" She said, "In essence, we need to bring love, our love and our fire, >> our heart and our fire.
We're asking everybody to be very focused because we have come to connect violence.
We're against the war in Iran, but that's not the only violence.
>> That's right.
>> In fact, the war in Iran can actually distract you from the other violence.
>> That's right.
>> And it's because we didn't say enough about the other violence that it gives people permission to go to war.
>> And all of us, some of us, all of us need to have some repentance.
All of us need to have some repentance around the fact that we didn't do enough, but God has given us another chance.
>> So, in just 30 seconds, I'm going to step into the street.
>> There's a special song, y'all, that they're going to sing when we get to the street, and we're going to be moving and adjusting. We want as many people as can to be in front of the podium. speakers, all speakers, when I step, you step and go behind the poll. It is by design that we want the White House to be seen in the background.
>> Part of it is to remind the White House that the people are in the foreground.
>> And then we want to build all the way around and we're going to be in the streets.
>> Are y'all ready?
>> You ready to take the street?
>> All right. We got a mic out there by the podium.
We got a mic on the podium.
>> Y'all Ron Freddy, give us some going in the street beats.
>> Hey, check one. Hey. Hey.
We don't want war. We want justice.
Justice will bring up the peace.
We want to live in a world without fear.
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No, my people are dying.
dying on the hands of police.
Why can't we live in a world without fear?
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>> Bring it down just a little bit. Now we need I need a sign that says voting rights denying voting rights and violence. Come up here. Denying voting rights and violence.
Denying food and violence.
We want some signs all the way across.
Come on. Dying food is violence. Just stand across in the front. Poverty is violence. Not all of you. Just some.
Denying of statehood is violence. We need it up here.
>> Denying food. Where's denying food? Is violence.
>> Denying child here. Where are you?
All speakers, you all in place of we need a friend to be up here in front.
All right.
Right.
This area we keep it open. So we have time for the cameras to be live streaming to millions and millions of people right now. Just thank all of our letting all of our video out. Come on.
Let's sing your your um uh post so we can put our hands together. We can open up these street. Who street?
>> Our street.
>> Who street?
>> Our street.
>> Bring this mic up. Bring this volume up.
Bring this volume up.
I need two American flags cuz we not going to let folks take the flag.
>> We're going to straighten it out >> right there.
We need one more.
All right.
>> Good. We got the little All right.
All right. Y'all turn it up for a while to this music and put your sign down for just a second and clap your hand. Then we going to pick them up after the music. We want to go with the music and then Miss Hannah going to take over.
Come on. Come on. Come on.
Come on.
When will their wages increase?
Building your wealth on the backs of the poor.
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shows this war over people.
Now people are gathered in treats.
Call for an end of this war. We say no war cease or cease. Everybody say, "Oh, come on, everybody help us."
>> All right, mic.
Make sure you introduce yourself for prayer.
>> Good afternoon.
>> It's great to see so many lovely people out here today. My name is Pastor Eric and I'm a pastor at Hope Lutheran Church in Clinton, Maryland.
>> So hopefully they can hear me all the way into Maryland.
Let us pray.
God, we we have heavy hearts.
Blood's being spilled. Money's being wasted.
>> Yeah.
>> People are not getting justice.
We speak about faith.
>> We think about we pray about hope and love.
And those three words go together. And with our faith, we have hope that the right things will happen in this country so we can love each other.
That's what it's all about.
Justice is love.
>> Amen.
>> And let it be so.
>> Let it be so.
>> I am Reverend Dr. Hannah R. Broom, national director of religious affairs for repairs of the breach. No justice, >> no.
>> Stop the war.
>> Stop the war.
>> Save lives.
>> Save lives. We've come from synagogues and sanctuaries, from the freedom church of Ammy Zion and Franciscanian communities, from the AM from Adventist to Unitarian, from the Lutheran parishes, Presbyterian and Christian church congregations, and from the conscious of those who claim no creed but justice.
We come from labor unions and picket lines.
>> From classrooms and hospital corridors, >> from the bedside of the uninsured and the kitchens of the working poor.
>> As those who have been failed by every system built to serve them, we showed up anyway.
>> We are diverse in our doctrine. We are united in what we are demanding of you, Mr. President.
We need you to hear us, members of Congress.
>> Every tradition here teaches the same truth. Human life is sacred.
>> Not some lives, not a few lives, but all lives.
>> The earth is not ours to destroy. The poor are not disposable. Those sick deserve healing. Workers deserve dignity. Immigrants deserve welcome.
Children deserve a future without the shadow of war.
>> So hear us clearly, Mr. President.
>> Hear us definitely, members of Congress.
>> When you deny voting rights, our faith condemns it.
>> When you deny healthc care to the most vulnerable, our faith condemns it.
>> When you choose an unholy war over peace, our faith condemns it. When you deny living wages to the working people, our faith condemns it.
>> When you defund public education and silence our teachers, our faith condemns it.
>> When you ignore a dying planet and silence the alarm, our faith condemns it.
>> When you strip dignity from immigrants, from women, from the poor, from the marginalized, our faith condemns it.
>> We are not one denomination. We are not one party. We are not the opposition.
>> We are the consequence.
>> We are the moral conscience of this nation. Standing on your doorsteps because you work for us.
>> History is watching. God is watching.
The spirit of humanity is watching. And we are not going anywhere.
Choose peace over profit. Choose people over power. Choose justice before justice chooses you.
>> Love for together.
>> That is our covenant and that is our demand.
>> You're going to hear from so many different voices from every walks of life.
>> We're going to hear from a veteran, Robert Brennham.
Bring this if you can, Mike.
I want us to be out.
>> He's coming.
Check. Check.
>> We're going in. There we are. There we are. So, all right. Somebody said forward together.
>> Now, we've asked speakers, as Reverend Broom just said and shaped our framing.
She named the forms of violence that are connected to violence. Our escalation is that for a few weeks we were over there on Black Lives Matter Street. Now we have taken the street in front of the White House >> in the middle of rush hour >> in DC.
>> Each speaker will speak to another issue of violence. We've asked all the speakers, you don't have to speak on somebody else's issue of violence.
>> Stay right there because we want folk to be clear. Each speaker has got what we call the twominut or the 150. Why 5050 words? Because we are taking all of this and using it throughout social media to drive consciousness.
Somebody say, "There's a purpose."
>> There's a purpose >> to the method.
>> To the method.
>> There's a method.
to what we're doing >> to what we're doing.
>> And this is why we wanted to have voices, not people who speak on behalf of people, but voices impacted. Now, there are about three speakers who will take a little bit more than 10 minutes. One of them is Phyllis Bennett, who's going to come from the Institute of Policy Studies and really lay out for us some things about this war we're not hearing in the media.
Another lady is going to be a person with conscientious objection because we want this to be a place where people who make decide to make that decision can in fact know exactly what it means and how to do it. All right. Those persons will have some extra time in the midst of this gathering. At the end, my job is going to be to try to pull it all together and synthesize it before we either go to Pennsylvania Avenue or we decide right here to engage in a form of nonviolent civil disobedience. We should also give a mighty shout out for all of the other places across the nation. Come on, let's say forward together.
>> Come on, forward together. Amen.
>> I do want to ask the mic people to keep the mic up. We will modulate, but keep it nice and loud. We hope that some of it trembles right on over there in the White House and some other places. All right.
>> Remember to celebrate people as they come. Take the time because we know mean folk will take all night doing wrong. We ought to be able to take a couple hours doing right.
>> All right. All right, my brother.
>> Strong to this one up.
>> Yeah. Put that one up. Take that microphone.
>> Greetings and salutations, beloved. My name is Robert Vincent Brandham. I am a Washingtonian. I am a military service connected disabled veteran.
>> The Constitution I took an oath to preserve and protect and defend guarantees freedom from every for every American. I love >> freedom is for everyone.
>> Freedom is for the people, the 702,000 people who live in the District of Columbia.
>> So, as a veteran, I say we want freedom >> for DC.
>> Freedom.
>> Freedom >> for DC.
>> for DC.
>> Freedom.
>> Freedom >> for DC.
>> For DC.
>> God bless you. Help him down, brother.
Help him down, brother. Help him down, brother.
>> Denying statethood is violence.
>> Good afternoon.
>> Good afternoon, DC and the world. These are hard times.
>> That's right.
>> For all of us. for poor and low-wealth people here in this country and for the people under the bombs and facing genocide around the world often paid for by our tax dollars without our consent.
Do you hear that, Mr. President? Yeah, >> there are many kinds of violence and we know that the USIsraeli war against Iran right now, one of the most violent immediate places right now is immoral and illegal.
>> That's right.
>> It is a war of choice and it is a war of aggression. Yes, >> it is illegal here in the United States >> and it is illegal under international law as well.
>> The cost of that war so far is over $50 billion >> of our money. You know what we could do with that money?
>> We could put $1.5 million people on Medicaid.
We could have 35,000 university scholarships.
>> We could put 727,000 children into Head Start. And we could have a living wage for 11 for 117,000 families.
>> What's going to keep us safer? What makes us safer? Having unformed, armed national guards walking around our streets, does that make us safer?
>> I don't think so. That is policy violence >> and it's designed to prepare us.
>> It's designed to normalize >> the presence of armed uniformed soldiers on our streets.
>> So when they show up on election day, >> That's right. The people who look like me who were born in this country might not worry all that much >> cuz they're not coming after us.
>> They're coming after the people of color. They're coming after immigrants who are now citizens and have the right to vote, >> but they don't want them to vote.
>> That's right.
>> So that is another kind of violence. In Gaza today, where the genocide continues, >> the US has paid almost 28 billion directly to the Israeli military to pay for that genocide.
>> They promised 10 billion more.
In 2024, just that one year, our tax money paid 40% of the entire Israeli military budget. We paid for the genocide. That is our country's violence.
>> The cost there if the genocide continues, and it does. Yesterday was Mother's Day. Yes.
>> The day before 17 people were killed by Israeli bombs in Gaza. On Mother's Day, the mothers of Gaza were in mourning.
>> Three of them were children. One was a baby only 6 months old.
>> The costs are massive.
>> The costs there are in lives. the cost in Iran. 3,500 people killed so far in this war, of whom 175 were children killed the first day in their school.
>> Remember that shame indeed and the shame is on us and on Israel who launched this war together. There is no ceasefire.
>> Yes, >> we need accountability.
We need to stop allowing our money to be paid to continue these wards. And when we fight for justice here, when we fight for jobs and health care and education, we know that that fight is not complete until we include the Palestinians and the Venezuelans and the Iranians in our fight. Thank you.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Stop the war.
>> Say loud.
We are going to hear some voices denying peace but choosing an unholy war as they come.
>> I'm Sandy Sorenson and I'm a formerly a member of the national staff of the United Church of Christ where I work here. And >> those of us behind us, we have a thing.
You don't talk while other people are talking. We can't listen to us. We can't expect them to listen to us. So, if you're behind this podium, there should be no conversation except Amen.
Go ahead, Sandy.
>> Uh, formerly a member of the national staff of the United Church of Christ where I worked here for over 30 decade 30 years.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Now, just a couple weeks ago, right here at Black Lives Matter Plaza, uh, at one of our Moral Monday witnesses, a school psychologist spoke and she talked about a conversation she had with a 10-year-old student and he asked her, "So, if we bombed a school in Iran, does that mean they're going to bomb a school here? And if they do, might his school be the target?" because he lived near the cap and that would be in the blast zone.
All is not well with our children today.
>> That's right.
>> All is not well when terms like blast zone and lockdown drills are part of children's daily reality and when schools and hospitals and refugee camps around the world do in fact become blast zones.
All is not well when there are thousands of children in the wealthiest country on earth who wake up in the morning not sure that they will get enough to eat.
All is not well when children cannot go to school and focus on learning because they're worried their parents may not come home for work.
All is not well when mothers and children are killed in their own homes as victims of domestic violence. An epidemic that is rarely acknowledged.
Now, you cannot say, "Well, there's just not enough money. This is just the way things are. This is just what we need to do to be safe." in one breath and in another breath proposed $1.5 trillion dollar in Pentagon spending for the next year.
>> This is not just the way things are.
This is a world created by policy makers who who pri prioritize profit power and insatiable greed. And we can choose differently.
>> Say stop the war.
>> Stop the war.
>> Stop the violence. Stop.
>> Now, I'm going to have to do something.
I'm going to try not to do this.
Everybody was supposed to come with 150 words.
>> We can't got get all these speakers and preachers especially. We're good for that. Now, I'm going last because I'm going to be longer by design that folk ask. Okay. But we need you to do a statement, a rally, 150 words because you're doing violence to the people behind you. Cuz in an hour y'all going to be talking about we need to move on. We got to quit. We want to get every voice in. Am I right?
>> Now, I'm doing this for Hannah so y'all won't be mad with her. I don't care about being mad at me. But it but we got to do that, right? We can do that.
>> Can we do that?
>> Cuz we got to we got to speak to everybody. All right.
>> So turn to your neighbor and say, "Let's do good to each other.
>> Let's do good to each other."
>> All right. Come on. Come on. Next one up.
There you go.
>> Good afternoon. My name is Claudia Allen. I serve as the executive director of Adventist Peace Fellowship. And we gather in a moment that scripture would recognize. Last month on April the 8th, the White House published a press release entitled Peace Through Strength.
Operation Epic Fury crushes Iranian threat as ceasefire takes hold. That's right. This declaration of peace in the midst of war calls us to the words of the prophet Jeremiah when he said they have heeded the wound of my people lightly saying peace, peace when there is no peace. As I stand before you today, there is no peace. No beloved, these are not the children of peace.
They heed not the command of Christ to be peacemakers. These are the makers of war. The dragon says we bomb you in the name of peace. The dragon says we will draft your children in the name of freedom. The dragon says we will starve Gaza. We will surveil tan. We will sanction the poor and we will call it Christian nationalism. The dragon of Revelation 13 says, "We will spend $900 billion dollar on weapons and tell you there's no money for your grandmother's insulin, no money for your child's lunch, no money for your veteran surgery." It's the dragon that says, "Peace, peace." when there is no peace.
Uh, the Adventist Peace Fellowship calls upon our neighbors of every faith and those of no faith at all. The Catholic and the Quaker, the Muslim and the Jew, the Menanite and the Methodist, the Baptist and the Lutheran, the Episcopalian and the Evangelical, stand against this unholy war. May the God of peace who is greater than the men of war make us troublesome.
Rabbi David from Kel here in the Washington DC area. Uh this pharaoh has inflicted tremendous damage on the progress this country has made regarding climate change. This past uh Sabbath the Jewish communities read from the book of Leviticus where God instructs the people about caring for the earth. We are called to give the earth a sabbatical every seven years. It is a mitzvah. We are reminded that we are stewards of the earth. We learn about climate justice and that the health of the land is necessary for the health and sustenance of all humans. Trump's policies have resulted in higher energy prices and more climate pollution, further endangering the health of millions of Americans and way beyond. He is underdoing programs that would protect us. Together, we must be strong for climate protections. We must stand up and fight for the health and safety of our communities. This is Leviticus's word. The word, God's word teaches us we are after all partners with God in guarding the earth and taking care of each other. We can't wait. Our climate can't wait. Our children can't wait.
We're already suffering from more frequent hurricanes, flooding, raging fires, more drought. We the people must stand together to overcome this idolatrous regime. We must convince Congress to find the moral courage to address climate change and protect us, the people. We choose life. We stand here together to say no to the evil acts of this administration.
>> That's right. That's right.
>> Denying climate change in our environment is a is violence. Policy violence. Yes.
>> My name.
>> We will now have Jamilia McKinnon.
>> Yes.
>> And Lily Golden.
>> Call Clinton. Clinton.
>> And Clinton.
>> Come here. Where's Clinton?
>> Come on.
>> Hi. Whoops. Hi. My name is Lily Golden.
I'm here as an Appalachin State student.
Growing up in North Carolina public schools, I was taught that government is for the people.
But I have witnessed my peers, my neighbors, my friends, and my teachers suffer at the hands of the very same government.
If the government is not for the teachers, students, and the poor, then who is it for?
>> That's right. That's right. I asked my representatives Tom Tillis, Ted Bud, and Virginia Fox to ask them that very question. Who are they representing?
>> That's right.
>> Is it not students, teachers, or the poor?
It doesn't have to be this way. Thank you.
>> Good afternoon. My name is Jamila McKinnon and I'm from Greensboro, North Carolina where I studied agriculture and environmental systems at North Carolina ent State University. I'm here because the earth is our only home. There's no backup planet. There's no replacement.
The air that we breathe, the water that we drink, or the soil that we grow our food. That is it. Protecting our environment is not only a political trend or a side issue. It's directly tied to our health, our communities, and the future generations. When we provide clean air, clean water, and healthy ecosystems and sustainable policies, we are not only protecting ourselves, but also our future and the planets and animals that make our life possible here on this planet. That's right.
>> We need political leaders who are understanding and care about this planet and the means for caring for people.
Environmental policy is not a human policy, but it also but it's also a policy that deals with people. That's right.
>> The planet thrives when we all thrive and vice versa. So forward together, not one step back.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
I'm Laura Vio. I drove over here from Harrisburg area, Mechanicsburg specifically, so I could tell Mr. President a story. That's right.
>> I was not surprised to hear that my nephew enlisted in the army last fall, so that he and his wife, who both work, by the way, could have healthc care.
>> Wow.
>> Because they had a baby on the way.
Mama, >> that baby arrived as Drew finished basic training >> and yet another ceasefire stopped. Your Department of Defense, Mr. President, continues waging this illegal, immoral, multi-billion dollar war as millions of Americans endure the violence of your cuts to programs that make food and health care affordable.
My nephew is not unique in weighing the hope of a reliable living wage and benefits against the risk of combat duty.
>> That's right.
>> A risk that increases every day that your enablers in Congress refuse to vote against this unjust, unholy war.
>> That's right. A risk that would be unnecessary if Congress ended the policy violence that enriches corporations and leaves ordinary Americans vulnerable, hungry, and unheard.
>> We see you, >> Mr. President, and we will not look away. And we will not be silenced.
>> Say that together. We will not >> We will not >> be silent.
>> be silent.
>> Bring this mic up some. We will not >> We will not >> be silenced.
>> be silent.
>> Stop the war.
>> Stop the war.
>> Save lives.
>> Save lives.
>> Denying healthc care is violent.
>> We're going to hear some voices concerning healthcare.
>> I'm Reverend Dr. Dela Owens Barber.
Mr. Mr. President, Mr. President >> and members of the Congress and Mega, I stand here today as a pastor of Eastern North Carolina. And this morning when I hear a news report of a mother and a father who have been separated from their son who is 18 years old battling stage 4 cancer, but finally getting a chance to see them on Saturday, but he dies >> on Mother's Day.
>> That's balance. And I know what it's like to live with the incurable disease, lupus. Lupus, along with 1.5 million other Americans who need lifesaving medical treatment. One in four lupus patients still receive health care through Medicaid and Medicare. And I've had three siblings who needed dialysis due to lupus new Fridays. And not having access to health care is violence.
My father who lost his health care that was tied to his job and not his humanity when he retired. He died at an early age of 46 years old.
>> Violence.
>> Violence.
>> Violence.
>> Violence.
>> And what is worse?
What's worse?
>> That's right. is that you, the Congress, Mr. Trump, you have taken health care from those who have had it and yet you choose to use those monies to fund tax cuts and an unholy war. This is pure >> violence and we will stand against it.
>> Yes.
Somebody say we >> we >> will stand >> will stand >> against it >> against >> pure >> pure >> violence.
>> All right.
>> Musicians, are you all over there?
>> Are you over there? Bale. There you go.
I see you. We're going to call on y'all in just a second. In just a second. All right. Thank you, Bishop.
Denying voting rights and living wages and denying freedom from poverty is violence. The next voices you'll hear will be dealing with those violent situations.
Come on up and bring it up. Come on.
Come on.
>> There we go.
>> Good afternoon.
>> Good afternoon. I'm the Reverend Abi Janamanchi and I serve Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Bethesda, Maryland.
>> There is a truth older than any government, any party, any law. Every person has inherent dignity.
Not some people, every person. It is the ground on which every great religious and moral tradition stands. Every one of them. No exceptions. None.
>> And yet here we are. We are made for each other. We belong to each other.
What diminishes one of us diminishes all of us. And when we strip healthc care from trans people, criminalize women's bodies, gerrymander districts to silence black and brown votes, we are not making policy. We are deciding who belongs to the human family.
>> Violence and people of faith cannot be silent when that question is being answered wrong. Gender justice and democracy are not separate fights. They never were. Both rest on the same conviction. Every person counts. Every person belongs. Every person deserves to live freely and without fear. That is what our traditions have always called us toward. The beloved community, not the community of the privileged few, not the community of the politically convenient. The beloved community has no exceptions and leaves no one outside the circle of care. We are here because love will not let us go, let us down, or let us off the hook.
>> Forward together.
>> Not.
>> Somebody say, "Love >> love >> will not let us >> not let us >> except >> except >> violence."
>> Violence.
>> The Lord is my light and salvation. Whom shall I fear?
>> The Lord is the stronghold of my life.
Of whom shall I be afraid?
>> Good evening. My name is Reverend Amanda Hemler Voss and I serve as the senior minister at First Congregational United Church of Christ, a justice-seeking church in the heart of our nation's capital, founded by abolitionists in the Lincoln administration.
>> This war of choice has deeply offended people of faith. It has offended the conscience of people of faith.
>> It's not just the egregious costs, but it's toxic theology.
>> Military personnel have been instructed by commanders that the war is part of God's plan to usher in Armageddon.
This administration gleefully calls for death and destruction to rain down from the skies. But the Bible says, "Seek peace and pursue it."
>> This administration quotes fake verses about great vengeance and furious anger.
But the Bible says, "Beat your swords into plowshares."
>> That's right. That's right. This administration says no mercy for the enemy, no harbor for prisoners of war.
But Jesus said, "Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword."
>> Make no mistake, this is no holy war. It is a fool's errand enacted by Christian nationalists who cozy up to white supremacy, gag the gifts of women, and erect idolatrous golden statues of this president.
>> That's it. That's it.
>> Today we say clearly this is not the faith of Jesus Christ. Justice is surely coming and we will hold this administration accountable for all of its unholy bloodshed. God will not be mocked.
>> That's it. That's it.
>> Somebody just say that when before she comes. Before she comes, say God >> God >> will not >> will not >> be mocked.
>> be mocked. Now we have four speakers coming in a row to talk about particular areas again of violence. Do you all see what we're trying to do for the nation >> with thousands and thousands of people listening in it? We cannot just talk about the war as violence >> but this violent moment that we're in that we must challenge.
>> Come on my dear sister.
>> It was going to be longer shortened. My name is Renee Moore and I'm an impacted individual.
>> Yes.
>> Yes. Yes.
>> Violence is residents in need of basic services, food, housing, and medical care and the most powerful country in the world. While our congressional leaders spend billions on war and allow its citizens to go without. Violence is citizens having to go from agency to agency searching for assistance and should not entail a 54page document, nor standing outside a government facility in Southeast, which will mean, you know, >> in the cold waiting for what is an unattended PowerPoint slide presentation. Nobody in the room, >> seniors in the cold. Violence is property management companies forcing tenants already under stress to pay sewer, trash, and processing fees. These fees should be borne by the billiondoll property managers who receive guarantee rent for the privilege of doing business in the nation's capital. This kind of violence in the mic, we want to hear every word and they hear you in the back and get picked up in the media. Stay with the mic.
There we go.
Y'all help her out. Should I go? You stay right in.
>> There you go. We want to hear you. We want to hear you.
>> Should I repeat it?
>> Violence is property management companies forcing tenants already under stress to pay sewer, water, and processing fees. These fees should be borne by the billiondoll property management companies who receive guarantee rent for the privilege of doing business in the nation's capital.
This kind of violence is unnecessary.
>> That's right.
>> And against God and God will have the last word.
>> That's right.
>> That's right. Say God.
>> God.
>> And that which is greater >> And that which is greater >> will have the last word. Hold on a second.
>> We want all of the last nine speakers to go meet with Sister Hannah. We're trying to do something. Just step right here on the side on the left. Meet with Hannah.
Call all of anybody who has not spoken to step with her. And we're going to have the musicians. Come on, musicians.
And lift us up with a song right now in the midst of the street. Amen. While we take a minute with Sister Hannah. Amen.
Amen. We're ready with Hannah. We're ready with her. Everybody's not spoken yet. Stand over there with Hannah for a second. She wants to give some clarifying remarks.
>> One, two.
Oh, somebody's hurting our people and it's going on too long.
I do.
>> I tell you, it's going to somebody's hurting our people. I just want to We won't be silent anymore.
>> Did you hear somebody starving the children? And it's gone on >> too long.
Is going on.
is born.
>> Somebody starving her children.
If we've been just a little too quiet, you know what's going on.
>> Not too long.
It's going to >> just a little too quiet.
>> Bring it down just a little bit y'all.
Bring it down a little bit.
>> Bring it down a little bit. Music.
Listen everybody. Listen everybody.
Put your placers down. We're trying to have We can't This violence is serious and when we sing we don't break. Singing is a part of challenging violence. So if everybody will put their placers down that are in with us and let's join. The song says somebody's hurting my brother, my sister, and it's gone on far too long. So you can put them down on the street for just a second and we can all join in. Bring that music up. I want the the sound the speakers bring it up nice and loud. Everybody's got a placer. Just put it down for a second and start putting your hands together. Come on.
Teach us, yara. Come on. Come on. Yeah.
This is a part of challenging Bible.
>> Bring us singer speakers up. Bring them mics up. Come on.
>> Somebody's hurting our people. I just going on >> and it's going on.
>> I tell you it's going on.
Oh, somebody's hurting our people and it's going to we won't be silent anymore.
>> Oh, somebody wants to keep us in war, y'all. And it's going on to >> I tell you it's going on.
Oh, somebody wants to keep us in war and it's gone.
>> That's right.
>> Bring it down a little bit. Bring it down.
>> Bring it down. Bring it down. Bring it down. Y'all keep clapping now. Sound man. I don't know if you ever wor with us before, but you got to work with us.
Keep these mics on up here. Unless they're giving feedback, both mics. cuz we got a crowd out here and we're trying to talk to folk and we're trying to have a rally.
That's one of the reason we wanted the choir in the in the street and the mic's facing that way. But if this is causing feedback, y'all, you go ahead and take it. One more line. One more line. Then we're going back to the speakers. We're going back. Turn their mics up if you need to turn mine down, but then turn them back up quickly. Okay. All right.
Let's go. Come on.
>> Put your hands together, everybody, and let me hear you from the street.
>> Yeah. If we've been just a little too quiet, you know, it's gone on too long.
Hey, it's gone on.
>> I tell you, it's gone on.
>> Oh, if we've been just a little too quiet, it's gone.
And we won't be silent anymore.
And we won't be silent anymore.
And we won't be silent anymore.
One more time. We won't be silent anymore.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
We won't be silent.
>> We won't be silent >> anymore. That's right. Hey, bring this mic back up. Somebody say mic.
>> Mic >> and sound >> and sound >> makes a congregation.
>> Makes a congregation.
>> No matter how many people you got, if they can hear, even if they can't see, am I right about it?
>> We want these other speakers to come.
We've got nine speakers to come and then we're going to try to put this together.
How many of you didn't come out here for fad and for form, but for serious business?
>> That's right, Bishop.
>> For serious business. Say serious business. Serious.
>> This is serious business.
>> Serious business.
>> All right. Behind us is an author home of an authoritarian.
>> This is serious business.
>> Come on, other speakers. We ask everybody now to listen up if you would.
>> Come on.
This is my friend the neighbor. I'm I'm a little funny and y'all might get mad with me, but I'm going to love you in the house cuz if y'all real. But everybody that's with us that's still talking behind. Can y'all stop and focus on the mic? I know we fellowship, but y'all we dealing with some serious stuff here.
>> This ain't about no fellowship just coming together. This is serious stuff.
>> Amen.
>> Amen.
>> Amen.
>> And this is a serious brother in union.
And we thank God for you, man. Come on.
Good evening.
>> My name is Sam EPS, president of the Metropolitan Washington Council AFL CIO, representing 150,000 union members here in uh DC's metropolitan region. We are here today because we know something in our bones.
Poverty is not an accident.
>> It's a policy choice.
When we talk about policy vi violences against workers, we are talking about what happens when a worker breaks their back for 40 years and still cannot retire with dignity.
>> We are talking about what happens when a parent who works two jobs and still cannot afford insulin for their children.
We are talking about what happens when the people who grow our food, build our roads, and care for our elderly are told they are not worth a living wage.
>> That's right.
>> That is violence to workers.
>> And labor unions were born for days like this >> when working people looked at an unjust system and said, "Not on my watch."
>> That's right.
And today we say it again, not on our watch.
>> Not on our watch.
>> We say no to an economy that hoards wealth at the top while workers beg for and take away.
>> We say yes to an economy built from the bottom up and the middle out where work is rewarded and dignity is guaranteed.
And no zip code determines whether your children will thrive.
>> Dr. Barber reminds us that that there is a moral budget. It's not about deficits.
It's about values.
>> And values say that that persons that make the least deserve the most protection from all of us. So we say no to workers violence.
>> That's right.
>> Solidarity forever.
>> Solidarity forever.
>> Yes. Yes. Yeah, >> there you go. Good job.
>> My name is the Reverend Adam Russell Taylor. I serve as the president of Sojuners.
>> I want to be crystal clear. Denying voter rights is violence.
As our nation comes quickly to its 250th birthday, >> our democracy is caught in the crucible of what feels like a prolonged Good Friday.
>> Last week's Cala decision by the Supreme Court's conservative majority in effect gutted the Voting Rights Act.
This decision is not only legal malpractice.
It is morally bankrupt.
>> It has already opened up the floodgates in states like Louis Louisiana and Tennessee who have already racially gerrymandered away black representation with new maps that will derail a multi-racial democracy.
This president, this White House has is actively trying to ban vote by mail and has threatened to unconstitutionally nationalize our elections and abuse law enforcement at the polls.
>> The administration has doubled down on the lie of widespread voter fraud, which is being used as a pretense to pass the SAVE Act and to undermine the integrity of our midterm elections. That is the bad news that voter suppression and election subversion are real and present danger. But there is some good news y'all. In the Christian tradition, we are still in the lurggical season of Easter, a season of redemption and a season of renewal. And so we are crystal clear that we must and can redeem our democracy and make the promise of liberty and justice for all real for all. Yeah.
>> My brothers and sisters, I want those that are behind, if you want to, you can move in to the sides and move in front. Except for those holding the signs along the podium.
I want y'all to give Hannah a great big hand because she operated on faith. She said, "Ramba, if we got an hour and we got 19 speakers and they all take 2 minutes, we ought to be able to get things up by 6:00." Well, >> here.
>> Yeah. Well, some folk can't because we got people with disabilities. We got a march we got to make to the White House and to the place where some people are willing to put their their bodies on the line today and we want to respect that.
So there are other persons that may have to speak. We're asking you to walk with us >> and walk down there because you know brothers and sisters I've been out here a long time. 61 years old 62 almost 63 despite the pain.
This is no time for show horses.
>> This is serious.
>> And I want us to be one for a moment.
Fact of the matter is, you can put your placers down and just grab somebody by the hand and tell them we got to be one in this moment. I want the nation to see us, see you all together.
Oh yeah.
>> You know, sometimes I was one time I was up speaking and I asked folk in the back if they would be quiet and you know I can hear everything and somebody said why don't he shut up and I said and that's why we have some of the problems we have >> because if we can't respect each other >> that's why they >> if we can't listen >> there is no joy about being out here today. Yeah.
>> Except the joy for maybe as the guy said one time when he went out in front of the White House and held up a sign every day and somebody said, "Do you think it will change them?" He said, "No, but it will change me."
>> It will keep me from ever giving in.
My brothers and sisters, I want to try to say something to the nation and hopefully clergy and others will take this up as a part of their moral messages.
>> And it's fine to loose your hands. You know, we're in a democratic society and the structures of our common life are built for disagreement.
>> But what we're seeing now is not normal.
It's not just disagreement >> here in our nation's capital. There's supposed to be a white house and a Supreme Court and a Congress.
>> Mr. President, hear us. Mr. Trump hears MAGA and others. We have a system that tries to balance those powers because we know that they will not always agree.
Inside those chambers where our laws are supposed to be debated, there are sometimes two sides and maybe more. But members are elected to represent us.
They may run as Democrat and Republican, but once they get elected, they swear.
They swear regardless of their partisan title that they will be about the business of establishing justice, >> providing for the common defense, promoting the general welfare, ensuring domestic tranquility, equal protection under the law. They swear to these things.
>> Yes. Yes.
>> And we are heirs of movements that have worked to change public opinion. We're not the first ones to take these streets, nor will we be the last.
We're not the first one. Whether it was 250,000 people on the on the march on Washington, which is many million that still were not there, or it was 800 people in the 1930s and the in the in that came here in ART for their uh unemployment money, the money they were on, the bonus marchers. But over and over again, people have come to this place to change public policy.
And this is hard work.
Democracy is hard. Look at your neighbor and say, "Democracy is hard."
>> Democracy is hard.
>> But here's the question before this generation.
What do you do when the democracy has been hijacked?
>> You know, a plane can go through turbulence and make it.
>> Yes.
>> A plane can change the time it's going to land or it can get delayed and make it. Yeah.
>> A plane can even switch pilots from the pilot to the co-pilot or the first officer. But when the plane is hijacked, >> yeah, make it plain, bishop, >> this is the question we face.
>> This is why we got to get real serious.
>> This democracy or our effort to be a democracy has been hijacked. Yes.
>> And it's not just because of one person or one election.
>> There is a kind of socio schizophrenia >> that is all in that exist in the in the in the ethos of America.
>> Yeah.
>> And that social schizophrenia Hannah is always seeking to take over and direct our common life to something different than was what was written. The socio schizophrenia is this. Dr. King said it like this. We have a high blood pressure of creeds.
>> And then the ammenia anemia of deeds.
>> You hear me, Dela? This is this is the contradiction.
>> And look at your neighbor and say, "And the contradiction has been with us.
>> The problem with what we see now when folks say it's not America." Yes, it is.
>> It is. It's not all of America. is not the only part of America. But this kind of schizophrenia has been with us since the nation was born. And the nation sought to say to women, you don't have a real voice. To poor white men, you don't have a voice. And to black folk, you're three-fifths of a person.
>> But every so often it goes real crazy.
That's what we every so often in this thing called America, it gets pronounced as schizophrenia.
>> And we're in a moment like that. The man who occupies our White House and the members of Congress who treat him like a demigod >> are MAGA extremists and our government is captive to MAGA madness. Our democracy is being subverted in plain sight >> and we face a constitutional crisis as the executive branch continues to run through guard rails while it tells us we don't understand what America really is about. You see, we actually have a hijacking that doesn't believe that America started out broken and has been trying to get better. It believes America was right in its beginning when only wealthy white men were in control.
And every effort since then has been a reversal.
>> We just celebrated Mother's Day >> and I was thinking about Julia Ward Howard, the abolitionist. You know, she was an abolitionist from Boston who rode the train down here to DC during the Civil War. And she reviewed the troops who had gathered to fight. And she was the one who came up with the idea of Mother's Day. When she saw all of the carnage and the death, the Mother's Day originally was about ending war.
>> Now, she also wrote the song, "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. He is trampling out his ventures where the grapes of wrath are stored. He has loosed his fateful lightning of the terrible swift sword. His truth is marching on. And Dr. King used that same hymn at the end of his speech at the end of the Selma to Montgomery march.
But Howell knew something.
She was horrified by the destruction of a civil war. Even when the cause is just, she knew that a tyrant could come along and sing that same battle hymn to make people feel righteous about unnecessary war.
She knew that that same song could be misused.
And that's why she wrote something else at the original Mother's Day. She wrote a cry. And this is what she said. Arise women of the day.
Arise all the women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or tears. Say firmly, we will not have great questions decided by irrevolent agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us wreaking with the carnage for caucuses and applause. Our son shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we've been able to teach them about charity and mercy and patience. Arise women, arise and declare, disarm.
Disarm, disarm.
Because murder is not the balance of justice. And blood does not wipe out dishonor, >> nor violence vindicate possessions. Give me this mic. She wrote that on Mother's Day.
>> And here we are the day after Mother's Day. Once again, we have to cry disarm.
>> And so the truth of the matter is that MAGA can wave the flag and play the battle him all they want to. We know who we are. And the truth is when a nation is going through schizophrenia, somebody has to know who you are. We can't be schizophrenia of schizophrenic along with the nation.
>> Touch your neighbor and say, "We know who we are."
>> We know who we are.
>> And we are here to declare that this war is mean, >> this war is angry, >> this war is greedy.
>> This war is anti-American. Yes, >> we are here to say that the this authoritarian hijack and captivity isn't about one person.
It's about the madness that MAGA has wrought.
>> So we today change the meaning of MAGA.
MAGA doesn't mean make America great again. MAGA actually has come to mean mean, angry, greedy, and anti-American.
Yeah.
>> And we say no to choosing unholy war.
Why? Because as long Dr. Jackson as the constitution says in article 1 section 8 that the congress has the authority to declare war >> to grant letters of marquee and repraisal and make rules concerning capturing on lands and waters. As long as that's in the constitution, this war >> is illegal. Yeah.
>> As long as the Bible says, "Blessed are the peacemakers, >> for they shall be called the sons of God, >> this war is immoral.
>> It is immoral.
>> But not only to war, we have to say no to all policy violence.
>> All policy violence.
>> Every bit of it.
>> Denying voting rights is also a form of policy. As long as the Constitution says that no one in the United States can deny or a bridge >> Yeah.
>> the right to vote >> on the account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, >> then the ruling of the Supreme Court a few weeks ago is unconstitutional and anti-American.
Yes.
>> And it's war and it's violence.
>> As long as the Bible says that every person created in the image of God is given a voice and a vote >> and it's a part of my human dignity.
Turn to your neighbor and say, "Nobody gave me the right to vote.
>> Nobody gave me >> my tower. It came with being born.
>> God gives us the right to choose.
And as long as that's true, >> then any attack mat, any attack on the voting rights is a denial of your humanity. When somebody attacks your voting rights, >> from a Christian perspective or Judeo-Christian perspective, what they're saying is you're not a human.
You're not made in the image of God >> and I have a right to take it.
>> Did you know that we really have only been a democracy where black people have been able to elect black people to Congress for 40 years?
>> Out of the 250 years of the history of this country, we've only been pressing our way towards a full democracy for about 40 years.
for about 40 years. And we did a study with the Institute of Policy study and what they said was when they looked at the diversity that the Voting Rights uh produced that if it was not for the Voting Rights Act, we would have never had the votes for the Affordable Care Act. Yeah.
>> If it was not for the Voting Rights Act, we'd have never had the votes to deal with CO >> to give people relief during CO >> because it was the members of the Congressional Black Caucus that have been elected only because of the provisions of the Voting Rights Act that gave the Democrats the majority >> That's right.
>> that they needed.
>> And that's why attack on voting rights >> isn't just an attack on black people.
It's an attack on democracy.
>> See, because the same people that attack voting rights, they want vote power so that they can attack healthcare, >> so they can attack living wages, >> so they can attack public education.
>> And that's why we have to say no to unholy war. And we have to say no to the violence of voter suppression. We have to say no to all policy violence. Come on and say this with me. Today, denying living wages >> Denying living wages >> is violence >> is violence.
>> Denying health care >> denying healthcare >> is violence >> is violence.
>> Denying statethood >> denying statehood >> to citizens in Washington DC >> to citizens of Washington >> and then asking them to fight in war >> and then asking them to fight >> is violence >> is violence. Denying >> Denying >> the rights of indigenous people >> the rights of indigenous people >> is violence >> is violence >> denying >> denying >> climate change >> climate change >> is violence >> is violence >> attacking immigrants >> attacking immigrants >> attacking gay people >> attacking gay people >> is violence >> is violence >> it's mean >> is mean >> it's angry >> it's angry >> it's greedy >> it's greedy >> it's anti-American >> it's anti-American >> and it's time >> it's time >> for all of of us all >> to come together >> to come together >> in a massive >> nonviolent >> nonviolent >> resistance >> resistance >> to all of this violence >> to all of this violence.
>> That's where we are.
>> That's where we are.
>> You don't have to play. Thank you.
We come from a tradition as I close.
>> Yes. Yes. Yes.
>> Of people who knew >> Mhm. that every generation has to challenge America's schizophrenia.
>> The tendency >> to be schizophrenic.
To say one thing and then do another.
>> But not only that, there's something else we have to do here. I almost hate to say it because the violence is so bad and I don't want to be misunderstood, but we can't blame Trump for all of this.
>> We can't blame MAGA for all of this.
>> The Voting Rights Act was gutted in 2013.
We should have mounted >> in 2014 a massive national call to restore the Voting Rights Act then >> and demanded that Congress fixed it.
>> But too many people said they won't go that far.
>> That's right. You're right.
>> In 2020, in the midst of CO, some of us got in these streets.
>> And some folk said, "No, we can handle this in the back room." Right.
>> And they said, "No, don't don't push don't push Biden and don't push uh uh uh Vice President Harris uh too much. Uh uh let them let them get the co peas McCain and then they'll come back. Uh let let Senator Mansion get what he wants and then he'll come back."
>> Yeah.
>> Oh yeah. I hate to say it, >> but there's some repentance that even the movement has to do.
>> Huh? Yes.
>> When John Lewis did a sit in in the Congress, >> the truth of the matter is we should have all followed him and done sitins in the street.
>> That's right.
>> Yeah.
>> We can't blame Trump for all of this.
>> 90 million people sat home in the last election.
>> Oh God, somebody help me here.
>> Come on. in the county in the in the states that that that Trump won, 7 million folk that could have changed the outcome didn't even vote.
>> Didn't even vote.
>> The Congress that we have >> exist because of only 7,000 votes.
>> That's right.
>> When 90 million voters stayed home.
>> That's right.
We have taken this authoritarianism, this mean, angry, greedy, anti-American stuff too lightly.
>> And we have blamed it too often on just one person.
>> Okay?
>> But >> but >> the sun came up this morning.
>> And that means that God has given us another chance.
And if America wants to come out of this sickness and come out of this hurt, the people are going to have to do it.
>> And you need to hear and I need to hear that we have more power than we've ever used.
>> But we can no longer have an election where only 50% of black folk vote.
>> Oh no. We can no longer have an election where where only 60% of Americans vote.
>> God has given us another chance.
>> And this is no time to stand down.
>> If we use one of the greatest nonviolent tools in the world, and that is the power to vote.
>> We can to begin the process over the next 10 years of shutting MAGA down.
Yeah, >> we don't need a midterm election. We need 10 years of massive voter turnout like never before.
>> Black folk need to come together.
>> White folk need to come together.
>> Brown folk need to come together.
>> Asian folk need to come together.
>> Indigenous people need to come together.
>> Gay folk need to come together. Straight folk need to come together.
>> Southern folk need to come together.
>> Western folk need to come together.
>> Northern folk need to come together.
>> Eastern folk need to come together.
>> And when we all come together, >> there can be a powerful >> transformation.
>> If we vote our power, >> a want to be king won't have a country to play in.
>> I feel something now.
If we vote our power, Alvin Jackson, >> the Congress will be changed.
>> If we vote our power, >> some of my going to join us >> and leave that sickness that they're messing with.
>> If we vote our power, >> mean-spirited Congress person can be sent home and Congress people that'll vote for a living wage can be sworn into office.
>> If we vote our power, >> greed won't have the last word. Yeah.
>> If we vote our power, >> ICE will have a meltdown >> and we can have our communities back.
>> If we vote our power, >> the germ of inequality can be cleared up with the antibiotics of justice.
>> If we vote our power, >> everybody can be respected.
>> Everybody can be protected. Everybody can be celebrated >> if we vote our power >> in the 250th anniversary of America. We can begin a third reconstruction to change this country.
>> If we use >> what God has given us >> and vote our power >> our power.
>> So let me close here.
>> Uhhuh.
Bishop >> before the Constitution was written >> and somebody said we hold these truths >> to be self-evident >> that all men they should have said all people but we're going to forgive her for that for one second all men are created equal they endowed by the creator with certain unalable rights among which are life liberty whatever >> come on say that say life, >> life, >> liberty, >> liberty, >> and the pursuit of happiness.
>> The pursuit of happiness.
>> The problem is >> we stopped reading there.
>> We stopped reading there.
>> That's not all the constit the Declaration of Independence said.
>> It also says that power comes from the consent >> of the governor.
>> Turn your neighbor said, "I don't consent anymore.
I'm tired of consenting >> to what's going on >> and then it says this.
Whenever >> whenever >> any form of government >> becomes destructive >> to these ends, >> it is the right >> of the people >> and the duty >> duty >> of the people >> of the people >> to either alter >> or abolish >> or abolish >> that form of government >> that form of government >> and lay down >> lay down >> a new form of government. I do.
>> Did y'all hear what I said?
>> Look at your neighbor and say, "It's my duty.
>> It's my duty.
>> It's my right.
>> It's my right.
>> Whenever >> whenever >> there's been a long train of abuses, >> go ahead, Bishop.
>> Would you tell somebody, it's been going on too long?
>> It's been going on too long.
>> It's been going on too long.
>> And it's time now >> And it's time >> to turn this nation.
Every generation has its moment.
>> I see some of you out there with gray hair.
>> The only reason you still here cuz you know how to fight.
>> If you got gray hair, you've been through some fights.
Yes, >> I see some of you out there who are middle-aged >> and now we need to fight cuz we've been living off the fight of other people >> that live before us.
>> And then I see some of you who are young >> and you've never really fought.
>> Well, it's time for you to get in the battle >> and fight for justice.
>> In Hebrews, the Bible says the people were about to quit. It's a book in the Bible. Paul wrote it some say and the people were about to quit. They were about to turn back because there were these mean Caesars, these authoritarians and they were they were just beating the people down and destroying the people and and and the apostle said no.
>> That's not who we are.
>> That's right.
>> And let me tell you what he said. And I He said, listen, we are not of those >> Uhhuh.
>> who shrink back.
>> Amen. unto destruction.
>> But we are those who persevere >> unto the salvation of the soul.
>> That's who we are.
>> Look at your neighbor as we get ready to march and say, "They must not know who we are.
>> They shouldn't have poked us like this.
>> Poked us like this. We are not schizophrenic. Tell your name. We are not schizophrenic.
>> We know exactly who we are. Tell them.
>> We know exactly who we are.
>> We are not doubleminded.
>> We are not doubleminded.
>> We are the children of Mother Jones.
>> We are the children of Mother Jones.
>> Who said fight >> until hell freezes over >> until >> And then fight on the ice.
>> Tell your neighbor. They must not know.
>> They must not know >> who we are.
>> who we are. We're the children >> We're the children >> of Fanny Liu Hamer.
>> of Fanny Li.
>> We're the children >> We're the children >> of Francis Perkins.
>> Francis Perkins.
>> We're the children the children >> of Dorothy Day.
>> of Dorothy Day.
>> We're the children >> We're the children >> of Kretta Scott King.
>> Scott King.
>> We're the children >> We're the children >> of Ella Baker.
>> Ella Baker.
>> We're the children >> of Rabbi Hessel.
>> of Rabbi.
>> We're the children >> We're the children >> of Malcolm X.
>> of Malcolm X. We're the children.
>> We're the children >> of Martin King.
>> Martin.
>> And we don't act one way one day.
>> We don't act one >> and then act another day.
>> We don't scratch when we're not itching.
>> We don't laugh when nothing is funny.
>> We don't tell lies just to get by.
>> We are the generation >> that we have been looking for.
We are the repairers of the breach.
>> We are >> we are the people that can make a difference.
And right now, >> right now, >> we must say, we must, >> we must >> keep growing, >> keep growing, >> rising, >> rising >> and expanding.
>> And expanding >> this movement.
>> this movement.
>> Growing >> growing >> rising >> rising >> and expanding.
>> This movement.
>> This movement.
>> Until the war ends.
>> Until the war ends.
>> Growing.
>> Growing >> rising.
>> Rising.
>> Expanding this movement.
>> Expanding.
>> Until voting rights are restored.
growing, >> growing, >> rising, >> rising, >> expanding this movement, >> expanding this move.
>> Until living wages are guaranteed, >> until wages, >> growing, >> growing, >> rising, >> rising, >> and expanding this movement, >> expanding this >> until everybody >> has healthc care >> healthare >> as a human right >> as a human right >> growing >> growing, >> rising, >> expanding, >> expanding >> this movement, >> this movement.
>> That's who we are.
>> That's who we are. We don't sit down.
>> We don't shut up.
>> We don't bow down.
>> We don't go away.
>> We keep standing.
>> Until pain >> Until >> becomes power.
>> Until our hurt >> Until our hurt >> turns into healing >> turns into healing.
>> Until frustration >> frustration >> becomes faith >> becomes faith.
>> We know >> We know >> who we are.
>> who we are. And because of who we are, >> because of who we are, >> we will never stop.
>> We will never stop >> growing.
>> Growing, >> rising, >> rising, >> and expanding, >> expanding >> this movement.
>> this movement.
>> We will keep on.
>> We will keep on >> now.
>> Now, >> now >> henceforth, >> henceforth >> and forever more.
>> And forever.
>> It is.
>> It is >> our time.
>> Our time >> to cure >> to cure >> this nation.
>> this nation.
>> One more time.
Are you ready?
>> Are you ready?
>> Yeah.
>> To grow.
>> To expand.
>> To rise.
>> To grow.
>> Expand.
>> Expand >> and rise.
>> Now >> hence forth >> and forth >> and forever more.
>> Forever >> until what's written.
>> Until what's written >> is what's true >> is what's true.
>> One nation.
>> One nation >> under God.
>> Under God.
>> Indivisible.
>> Indivisible. Give liberty >> with liberty >> and justice >> and justice >> for all.
>> for all.
>> Now >> now.
>> Henceforth.
>> Hence his forth.
>> And forever more.
>> Forever.
>> Now.
>> Now.
>> Henceforth.
>> Hence forth >> and forever more.
>> It's our time.
>> Grab somebody if they'll let you and hug them real good and tell them, "I'm glad you're alive."
>> For this fight.
>> Tell them, "I'm glad you're alive."
>> I'm glad you're alive.
>> For this fight.
>> For this fight. I'm glad you're alive.
>> Glad you're alive >> for this fight.
>> Really?
>> We need an ar get in the front.
>> How many of you are going to walk with us, >> march with us down >> to Pennsylvania Avenue? What street is it?
>> The 16th.
>> Yes.
>> We need all the armbands >> to come in the center. Those are people that are going to put their bodies on the line today.
Come on in, >> Belle. If y'all can find I've got a feeling everything, >> Freddy, y'all going to be all right.
Find the find the armbands.
I' I've got a feeling where the armbands raise your hands.
>> How many are going to walk with us?
Armbands are going to go first.
>> Get on Hannah's shoulder.
>> Those that are going to have a word when we get there, we're going down two by two.
Two by two. Some of us are not going in today and forever more.
>> Falling behind. way here.
>> Two by two.
>> Fall in behind.
>> Thank you.
>> Two by two.
>> Okay.
>> I've got a feeling.
>> I got a feeling, y'all. I'll be right back.
>> Everything's going all right.
Got a feeling.
Everything.
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