My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.


speech at Democratic National Convention, Atlanta, 19 July 1988


My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.

My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.

My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.

My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.