Mr. President, you said would we have more leverage if both parties got our votes, but we didn't come this far playing political games. It was those that earned our vote that got our vote. We got the Civil Rights Act under a Democrat. We got the Voting Rights Act under a Democrat. We got the right to organize under Democrats.
Mr. President, the reason we are fighting so hard, the reason we took Florida so seriously, is our right to vote wasn't gained because of our age. Our vote was soaked in the blood of martyrs, soaked in the blood of good men, soaked in the blood of four little girls in Birmingham. This vote is sacred to us.
This vote can't be bargained away.
This vote can't be given away.
Mr. President, in all due respect, Mr. President, read my lips: Our vote is not for sale.
"Kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
Thursday, July 29, 2004
Nobody will listen to Al Sharpton simply because he's Al Sharpton. Which is a shame, because when the man is on, he's on. And he was on. His response to Bush asking for the Black vote on the grounds that voting for Republicans would give blacks "leverage" was dynamite:
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