The Catholic Church Had Strict Racial Attitudes

Not Since The Early Days Of The Civil Rights Movement Has America Been Given An Opportunity As Great As The Opportunity We Have Now. It's One Thing For Us To Avenge Our Pain, Our Anger, And Our Rage By Targeting Bin Laden And A Handful Of Men Who Have Wrought This Villainy. But One Should Be Wise Enough To Ask, What Fueled All This? What Continues To Sustain The Possibility That This Will Not Go Away? I Think The Answer Is Poverty.

I Don't Find Inspiration On Wall Street. I Don't Find That In Beverly Hills. I Don't Find That In Places Where Opportunity Resides Unbridled, And I Think The Real Creative Energy And The Real Juice Is In Where People Are Caught, In The Economic Abyss.

In My Earliest Of Years, My Mother Was A Huge Force In My Life. She Was For All Intents And Purposes, A Single Parent. My Father Had Abandoned Us. He Was An Alcoholic And A Physical Abuser. My Mother Lived Through That Tyranny And Made Her Living As A Domestic Worker. She Was Uneducated But She Brought High Principles And Decent Values Into Our Existence, And She Set Lofty Goals For Herself And For Her Children. We Were Forever Inspired By Her Strength And By Her Resistance To Racism And To Fascism.

Fascism Is Fascism. Terrorism Is Terrorism. Oppression Is Oppression.

These Children And Their Parents Know That Getting An Education Is Not Only Their Right, But A Passport To A Better Future - For The Children And For The Country.