owner of the day of judgment it is you we worship and you we ask for help guide us to the straight path the path of those you have favored not those who are injure anger nor those who are astray oh god of all creation you know the source of all good and all blessings thank you for the opportunity to gather here to celebrate the life and legacy of dr martin luther king j king's powerful dream has not yet been realized mosques synagogues and churches are being vandalized individuals assaulted because of their race religion or gender an surge in violence and hate is around us the forces of evil are united in their purpose we need strange guidance and inspiration from you our lord to stand united as people of love  and faith over fear and hate our lord give us the courage and power like dr king to stand for what's right speak choose to power and fight for justice for immigrants because even now we stand on tribal land we seek your divine guidance and wisdom in all that we do in the face of the many many challenges before us help us our lord fight the spiritual diseases of the heart that lead to racism islamophobia anti semitism sexism and all other forms of other a zation and hate bigotry and discrimination within ourselves and our society we ask of you oh lord the ability to affirm every day and our words and actions that love conquers hate and to respond to individual acts of hate with thousands of manifestations of love and solidarity just as i was able to witness with the double vandalism at our mosque the muslim association of puget sound we ask you a lawyer to save us from apathy and silence in the face of injustice and wrongs because as dr king said in the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends lord fill our hearts with compassion and mercy for you are the most compassionate and most merciful help us achieve prosperity for all over poverty of body heart spirit and so strength over weakness and help us become men and women of truth and justice and the land that is yours one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all amen god bless and thank you chair of our committee larry go and as our beautiful moderator just said i have had the pleasure of been associated with the martin luther king celebration committee since it's and session and nine hundred eighty three gone concrete actions that have made a difference i have enough time to just tell you about a couple down and then two thousand and two when i am focus class people hence the i'll our focus was taken seven thousand people after our rally was over down to the headquarters of the chamber of commerce we had been told it would be close but when we when they knew we were serious about coming any way somehow it was open when we got there as a result we got the chamber to create a commitment to  iraqi then organize anybody to bomb our trade center this is only happening because our president bush thinks that the people of iraq talk back to his dad who close i just want to say to all of you who are joining us today that as we look forward and i'm not using hype of course our next president comes closest to being a  the two times he's asked what do you think about the conflict between the african american police and the police he says i'm the law and order candidate so we've got a big job ahead of us you know what this means when the hands on my r because this is the largest crowd i've ever seen at this event and that is incredibly inspiring that means that you are ready to take on the challenge that faces us of donald trump as president and the fact that everything he stands for we need to resist with our entire energy and everything miss this celebration of martin luther king's life and everything to start for i want to make sure that we give a final shout out to president barack obama and all  we did not get as far as we wanted to i know that but this country elected a black man president most of the rest of the world didn't believe that what happened you had an amazing impact on america's and whatever differences of opinion we may have got had with him you know that the old saying of you never know what you've got till it's gone cannot possibly be more true and i agree completely with the mayor he laid out a whole series does that there is an endless array of issues that we have to stand up for social justice is at stake equality is at stake we cannot step back from that fight we must stand up for you quality in this country we must stand up for access to health care we must stand up for immigrants and for the undocumented population in this country who deserve our support  thank you thank you so much thank you so much to the martin luther king jr committee for this march i so appreciate it and to some of my heroes they are really the inspiration for why i'm here in public office so let's give it up for the committee that helped to put this together here  and it has been an incredible two weeks first two weeks serving in congress first of course having to stand up and challenge the electoral college votes on the united states  and yes i did know the procedure and yes i did know that i would be shut down but some of you might remember that back in two thousand and one the congressional black caucus to the same thing when president al gore when vice president al gore should have been president al gore was presiding over the proceedings but i felt it was incredibly in that we don't normalize anything in the selection that we and i felt it was important that we challenge some of the voter suppression that has been going on in states across this country and so i was to challenge the electoral college votes in georgia because in georgia at the waiting lines all the way back people who had been in line for hours and they did not get to vote because they closed the pedals at exactly the time and didn't let the people that were standing in line vote so yes i stood up on the floor to challenge voter suppression across this country and some of you know that along with congressman adam smith and it has been a great honor and pleasure he the dean of our delegation by the way let's give it up for congressman adam is when i announced that i wasn't going to go to the inauguration it wasn't actually a boycott at that time but it was the belief that i have that as we stand here today to honor the life and the legacy dr king it is not one day that we are trying to honor it is the values that dr king was fighting for it was the belief that we are one mission and that means we have to lift everybody up together it means we have to raise the minimum wage that means we have to fight against incarceration it means that we have to make sure that we are putting forward policies that encourage us to love and unite each other and that is why i am not going to go but it's great to be in the and we're going to make sure to continue to fight for you and thank you to those of you who came to the affordable care act rally that we did yesterday to say about how can we help one of the largest crowds in the country and i'm in a wrap up right now but i want to tell you that the fight continues and we will do everything in our power to stand up for every man woman and child in this country to move us  but you know i got seattle roots i used to live in a self in holly park you  ages we got to get on the same pages we need representation in these high places there's no reason all the authority figures city have all white faces you know as good one of us became the face of the whole  know the outcome if we can unite as one in together we say oh overcome for our fighting spirit hundred million people did not vote in this past election day but those impacted by first oppression those who didn't see or counted it as an option and how many four point seven million people who have given up searching for work did they also give up on you like process to we will stand for latinos stand with african heard many people say we have been here before and we have to null what to do each and every one of you here you have a justice army that we're looking for who lives in this country including immigrants who don't have immigration documents you thank you very much for having the opportunity to be here my name's claudia kauffman i work for the muckleshoot indian tribe muckleshoot has been a part supporter of the martin luther king celebration for over ten been here every year every year we support seattle has a little history of working together the late bernie pipe there the late bob santos the late and i wonder for mr larry kasit we're thinking of and we need to pick that up we need to keep this going and i dedicate to you and to all my brothers and sisters you have me in that is read morningstar i remember the next person and i know that you've heard it before i want to say it again we need to stand we're standing rock god the sixty's and the standing rock they are using water cannons on the people in twenty three degrees they are shooting rubber bullets they are shooting these little home cannons they ar the protesters strip search them and put them naked in a dark candle that's what's happening at stand in iraq we need to stand up to stand in iraq we need to say we have to protect that water as a traverses goes through goes under water he was going to go through bismarck but then bismarck said no we want to save our water they said ok we'll go over this standing rock reservation so no no no we need to protect that water and we need to protect the cultural resources sacred sites and burial grounds that are there because you know it was the one she will destroy was a sacred site it is going on sacred sites are finite and they are nonrenewable you social movements that is what the occupied movement did when they told us that we are the ninety nine percent and we need to control over the wealth of our community ignite this country against police brutality had access only to vote especially and women of color must lead the women's movement my white sisters i'm talking to you because you have much work to do you must go on to educate and win back those  percent of white women who voted against our interests and voted for  women have much to lose from the trap administration and a republican controlled congress the right to control our bodies and the press with the loss of obama care whether defunding the planned parenthood and cutting of federal funding to public and my wife informed me that i will be marching saturday as well against discrimination at all not one not the loss against housing discrimination so you couldn't purchase your home you couldn't rent where you want to know what laws against  was a young kid you know when you hear somebody say something if you want to say you said and keep on moving thank you wan i tell you what the words were and they were very simple words in no way tough come too far from where i started