00:00Exercise the right to dream. You must face reality, that which is. But then dream of the reality that ought
00:12to be, that must be. Live beyond the pain of reality with the dream of a bright tomorrow.
00:21Our children are in trouble. They are embittered. They were not born that way. They live amidst violence and rejection.
00:34They live in broken streets, broken glass, broken sidewalks, broken families, broken hearts.
00:48Their music, their rap, their video, their art reflects their broken world. And yet, these are our children.
01:03This is not a perfect party. We are not a perfect people. Yet we are called to a perfect mission.
01:13Our mission, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide
01:24jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.
01:31I may be poor, but I am somebody. I may be in jail, but I am somebody. I may be
01:50uneducated, but I am somebody. I am black, beautiful.
02:02Can even lions and lambs find common ground? Why? Because neither lion nor lambs want the forest to catch on
02:10fire.
02:12Neither lions nor lambs want acid rain to fall. Neither lions nor lambs can survive nuclear war.
02:19If lions and lambs can find common ground, surely we can as well as civilized people.
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