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"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..."