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"We can not allow the very rich to become even richer, while over 20% of our children live in poverty, while veterans who defended this country sleep on the streets, & seniors can not afford the medicine they need." - @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"We will no longer accept 46% of all new income going to the top 1%, while millions of Americans are forced to work 2 or 3 jobs just to survive and over half of our people live paycheck to paycheck." - @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"Brothers and sisters, there is too much concentration of wealth and power in this country and this is a fight we are not gonna run away from! WE believe in democracy, not oligarchy." -@BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"Today we say to the private health insurance companies, whether you like it or not, the US will join every other major country on earth and guarantee healthcare to all people as a right. Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege." - @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"Today we say to the pharma industry, you will no longer charge the American people the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. The result being 1in 5 Americans can't afford to buy the medicine their drs prescribe. How crazy is that?" - @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"Today we say to the parents of young children in this country. We understand that 0 - 4 are the most significant ages for a human being, intellectually & emotionally. The children of this country are our future and we will establish a universal pre-K system." #BernieInChicago

"We want you to get the best education that you can regardless of the income of your family. Good jobs require a good education and that is why we will make public colleges and universities tuition free." @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"Today we say to our Sr citizens, we understand you can not survive on $12-13K a year on social security. Republicans want to cut social security benefits. Well we've got some bad news for them. We're not gonna cut social security, we're gonna expand benefits." #BernieInChicago

"We're gonna pass comprehensive immigration reforms and a path towards citizenship... we're going to create a human border policy for those who seek asylum. The United States of America must never be a country that snatches babies from the arms of their mothers." #BernieInChicago

"Today we say to the top 1% and the large profitable corporations, people who have never had it so good, that under a Bernie Sanders administration we are gonna end the massive tax breaks and loop holes that you currently enjoy." - @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"We will no longer accept the absurd situation where large corps like Amazon, Netflix & GM pay NOTHING in federal income tax. We will no longer tolerate a situation in which the wealthy & large corps store 10s of billions of dollars in the Cayman Islands & other tax havens."

"We say to the military industrial complex that we are not going to spend $700 billion/yr... more than the next 10 nations combined. We are going to invest in affordable housing... in public education... in rebuilding our infrastructure...not never-ending wars." #BernieInChicago

"Together we will end voter suppression in this country and move to automatic voter registration. If you are a citizen and 18 years of age, you are registered to vote. End of discussion." @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"In the last decade, more than 30 states have considered voter suppression laws whose clear intent is to disenfranchise people of color. How pathetic and how cowardly is that!" @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"Whether it is the struggle against corporate greed, racism, sexism, homophobia, environmental devastation, or war and militarism. Real change never takes place from the top on down. It ALWAYS takes place from the bottom on up." @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"Over the last number of years, we have seen a terrible level of police violence against unarmed people in the minority community." Bernie then goes on to name Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, and more. #BlackLivesMatter #BernieInChicago

"Instead of spending $80 billion a year on jails & incarceration, we are going to invest in jobs & education. No more private prisons & detention centers. No more war on drugs. No more keeping people in jail because they are too poor to afford cash bail." #BernieInChicago

"Real police department reform led at the federal level, which says that lethal force is the LAST resort not the FIRST." @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"When we talk about criminal justice reform, we are going to change a system in which...not one major Wall St exec went to jail for destroying our economy in 2008. They didn't go to jail. They got a trillion dollar bail out." @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"Flint, MI is still w/out new pipes for clean water & it's not just Flint. There are 1000s of other communities, often minority, the water they are drinking, the air they are breathing is not fit for human beings...We will create a nation in which all people are treated equally."

"When we are in the White House, we will end the decline of rural America. Re-open the rural hospitals, support family-based agriculture & make sure that our young people have decent jobs so that they don't have to leave the small towns they love & where they grew up."

"When we are in the White House, we will move aggressively to end the epidemic of gun violence in Chicago and in this country. And the @NRA not withstanding, we are going to pass common sense gun safety legislation." -@BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"When we are in the White House, we are going to protect a woman's right to control her body. That is not a decision for the federal gov't or the state gov't or the local gov't. That is a woman's choice and nobody else's." - @BernieSanders #BernieInChicago

"We have something they don't have and never will have, and that is a united people!" - The crowd begins to chant, "Not me, Us!" #BernieInChicago

"If we do not allow Trump & his friends to divide us up, and we stand together as black & white & latino, Asian American, Native American, gay & straight, native & immigrant, women & men, urban & rural, east and west..."

"...if we understand that there is no such thing as a red state or a blue state, but that we are a nation in which in every single state, the majority of working people are struggling hard to provide a decent life for their kids..."