90001_12195 Presidential Campaigns 1988 Democratic Convention Jesse Jackson Speech 1_13
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Jesse Jackson's 1988 Democratic National Convention speech. He talks about the moral challenges of their day, which includes economic violence from corporate greed. Jackson says that most of the people who are poor and taken advantage of are poor, young, white women, and that the poor are not lazy, but rather work harder than most and are given few opportunities, but are portrayed as lazy.