"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
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"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."
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"Real police department reform led at the federal level, which says that lethal force is the LAST resort not the FIRST."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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
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"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." -
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"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!"
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"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..."
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"...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..."
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"...if we stand together in believing justice and human dignity, if we believe in love and compassion, the truth is there is NOTHING we can not accomplish. Let us go forward together!"
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