“How can we, I want you to go into your hearts, how can we talk about morality, about justice, when we turn our backs on the children of our country?” He also said that 20 percent of all children - and 40 percent of African-American children - now live in poverty. Sanders, at one point, began ticking off statistics about how “millions of people are working more hours for abysmally low wages of $7.25, of $8 an hour, $9 an hour” even as “58 percent of all new income generated is going to the top 1 percent.” Most of his speech was shaped around morality, which he tried to use as a bridge to agree with students here. The biggest applause came when David Nasser, Liberty’s senior vice president for spiritual development, asked an audience-based question about how Sanders reconciles his support for the underprivileged, while those in the womb are arguably in most need of protection.īut Sanders got plenty of cheers of support for his main message - we must do more to help the financially disadvantaged. There were no boos from the audience but there were notable silences or meager cheers during lines that have typically whipped up the crowds during Sanders’ megarallies. The scene was respectful at least and enthusiastic at best throughout the event. “In my view, there is no justice when, in recent years, we have seen a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires while at the same time the United States of America has the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on earth.”
“You have got to think about the morality of that, the justice of that, and whether or not that is what we want to see in our country,” Sanders said. Sanders made a plea to set aside those differences, repeatedly citing passages from the Bible like Matthew 7:12 and Amos 5:24, and argued that people on opposite sides of the political spectrum need to come together to fight the “massive injustice” of income inequality in the United States.
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