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“You Got To Dance With
Them That Brung Ya!”
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Before the days of the Civil Rights Movement, a
senator might have said that the millions of
oppressed people were happy in their condition. But
now, after so much history, after so much painful
growth, we see the insensitivity and ignorance of
such a statement. How did anyone dare think that
the oppressed and abused were happy in their
condition?
Before the rise of the Environmental Movement, a
senator might have looked upon a polluted Hudson
river and said that the old river is simply paying the
inevitable price for progress. But now, after so
much sickness endured, so much new understanding
gained of our fragile network of life, and after so
much effort by so many, we see the insensitivity and
ignorance o f such a statement. How did anyone dare
think that our beautiful land stretches itself out for
companies to ravage for their profit and our misery?
Before the Campaign Finance Reform Movement,
which grows every day now with such power that it
shakes the political parties to their foundations, a
senator might have advised his fellow member to
not worry about voting down campaign reforms,
because the people don't care. That is, in fact, what
Senators McConnell and Lott did say -a n d that is
what precipitated my walk. I have come to tell them
that they are wildly mistaken, and I am glad to have
you along to add your voices to mine.
This morning we began our walk among the graves
of Arlington —so that those spirits, some of whom
may be old friends, might join us today and that we
might ask of them now, Did you, brave spirits, give
your lives for a government where we might stand
together as free and equal citizens, or did you give
your lives so that laws might be sold to the highest
bidder, turning this temple of our Fair Republic
into a bawdy house where anything and everything
is done for a price? We hear your answers in the
wind.
What might we call the selling of our government
from under us? What might we call a change of
government —from a government of, by and for the
people, to a government by and for the wealthy
elite? I will not call such a change of government a
treason, but those more courageous shadows
standing among us, whose blood runs through our
flag and our history, and whose accomplishments
are more solid beneath us than these stone steps,
why they might use such a word in angry whispers -
-Whispers that trace through the polluted corridors
of this once great Capitol and slip despairingly
through the flies of correspondence and receipts in
this city of
corruption.
Senators, we speak for these spirits and for
ourselves: O f course you may not have our
democratic republic to sell. What our family
members died for, we do not forget. They died for
our freedom and equality, not for a government of
the rich alone.
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Along my three thousand miles through the heart of
America, which I made to disprove your lie, did I
meet anyone who thought that their voice as an
equal citizen now counts for much in the corrupt
halls of Washington? No, I did not. Did I meet
anyone who felt anger or pain over this? I did
indeed, and I watched them shake with rage
sometimes when they spoke, and I saw tears well up
in their eyes.
The people I met along my way have given me
messages to deliver here. The messages are many,
written with old and young hands of every color,
and yet the messages are the same. They are this:
Shame on you Mitch McConnell and those who
raise untold millions of dollars in exchange for
public policy. Shame on you, Senators and
Congressmen, who have turned this headquarters of
a great and self-governing people into a bawdy
house.
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D A Y L IG H T T I M E
The time for this shame is ending. The American
people see it and have decided against it. Our
brooms are ballots, and we come a-sweeping. We
will visit every state where anti-reform Senators are
up for reelection and bring with us the long lists of
your corruptions, and I will be with them. You will
try to buy your way out if it with expensive
advertisements. But we will take such spending as
further proof of your corruption, for Americans pay
ten dollars in extra taxes for each dollar you receive
for your campaigns from special interests.
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As hc write this the Cubs arc 30 games out.' They
have the worst record in Major League Baseball. At
this point Die-Hard-Cubs-Fans begin their mantra,
“Wait toil next year!” Next year Sosa will surely be
gone, and maybe even Mark Grace. Kerry Woods
might be healthy enough to pitch lor a full season
which means he will be traded. Once again we
watch the playoffs sans Cubs. Once again the World
Series teams are made up ol guys who we remember
That s the guy that made the amazing catch of
Grace s line drive in that twelve inning game we lost
in July.” or “Remember when this guy struck out
Sosa three time in one game?” Once again we
ponder the "Cub Factor” which states; ‘The team
with the most ex-Cubs will lose the World Senes.”
Once again wc wait for spring when common sense
will be suspended and we will hear the voices nng in
the clear Arizona air, shouting; “Go Cubbies!!”
While we are here to speak frankly to our
representatives, let us also speak frankly to
ourselves: Along my walk I have seen an America
that is losing the time and the energy for self-
governance. The problems we see in Washington
are problems that have been sucked into a vacuum
of our own making. It is not enough for us to elect
someone, give them a slim list of ideas and send
them off to represent us. If we do not keep these
boys and girls busy they will always get into
trouble. We must energize our communities to
better see our problems, better plan their happy
futures, and these plans must form the basis of our
instructions to our elected representatives. This is
the responsibility of every adult American, from
native to newcomer, and from young worker to the
long retired. If we are hypnotized by television and
overwrought by life on a corporate-consumer
treadmill, let us snap out of it and regain our lives as
a free, calm, fearlessly outspoken people who have
time for each other and our communities. Let us
pass election reforms and anti-corruption measures
in our towns and cities and states, winning the
reform wars where they are winnable, changing the
national weather on this subject until the winds
blow even through these columns.
In that regard, I will spend part of my time now
helping motivate communities to improve their civic
life and their democratic processes. I will do so in
concert with the National Civic League, founded in
1894 by Theodore Roosevelt and represented here
today by the league's President, Mr. Christopher
Gates of Denver.
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Senators, how did you dare think we do not care?
DOTS
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Now, Senators, back to you. If I have offended you
speaking this way on your front steps, that is as it
should be; You have offended America and you
have dishonored the best things it stands for. Take
your wounded pride, get off your backs and onto
your feet, and go across the street to clean your
rooms. You have somewhere on your desks, under
the love letters from your greedy friends and co-
conspirators against representative democracy, a
modest bill against soft money. Pass it. Then show
that you are clever lads by devising new ways for a
great people to talk to one another again without the
necessity of great wealth. If you cannot do that, then
get out of the way —go home to some other
corruption, less harmful to a great nation. We have
millions of people more worthy of these fine offices.
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