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Bernie Sanders in South Carolina: "Today we talk about justice and today we talk about racism. And I must tell you, it gives me no pleasure to tell you that we now have a president of the United States who is a racist."
Bernie Sanders: “We say to President Trump today: This country has suffered too long from discrimination. We are not going backwards. We are going forwards to a non-discriminatory society.”
Bernie Sanders: "Racism ... exists in this country today, and it exists when the median white family owns ten times more wealth than the median African American family."
Bernie Sanders: "Racial equality must be central to combating economic inequality, if we are going to create a government that works for all of us, and not just the 1%."
Bernie Sanders: "We were there to demand an end to racism and to support Dr. King’s call for economic justice. Because let us never forget that the title of that march was 'jobs and freedom.' Jobs and freedom."
Bernie Sanders: "And I find it remarkable that 56 years after that march, many of the demands that Dr. King and others made are still demands that we have got to fight for today."
Bernie Sanders: "Back in 1963, Dr. King demanded that workers be paid a living wage. Today, we have got to fulfill that demand and raise that minimum wage to $15 an hour."
Sanders: "[Dr. King] was a man of unbelievable courage, who understood not only that we have got to end racism, but that we need economic justice."
Sanders: "Remember where he was when he died. He was in Memphis Tennessee. Standing with exploited sanitation workers who were struggling for decent wages. Think of the work he was doing at the end of his life -- what he was organizing was a poor people’s march. Remember that?"
