Bernie Sanders: America's 'other radical' [View all]

2017-09-01 08:00


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Like great orators such as Dr Martin Luther King, President Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu before him, the longest serving independent member of the United States Congress’ voice echoes against the walls and roof of the highest church in America as he rallies to rouse young Americans to free themselves of a “corrupt political system.”

Sanders elicits the fiercest applause when, in his booming voice and Brooklyn accent, he waxes “radical.”

“The hardest part of politics, and something that Dr King Jr certainly knew, has to do with courage, has to do with imagination, has to do with the need to think big and not small. It has to do with the need to escape the limitations and constraints of the status quo.”

“It has to do with the need to reject as ‘normal’ what we see every day around us, it has to do with the need to maintain a deep sense of outrage at what we see around us in this country and in the world.”

“It has to do with the need to understand that the emperor, in fact, has no clothes.”