If we do not allow our opponents to divide us ... there is nothing that we cannot accomplish

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KCRG: Sanders promotes income and racial equality in Des Moines stop

“What we’re trying to do is win an election without a super PAC, without being funded by millionaires and billionaires,” he said.

“What we’re trying to do is win an election by having the strongest grassroots volunteer organization that anyone has seen,” he added. “So far we’re doing good, but we need all of your help.”

“What this campaign is about is not just electing Bernie Sanders, what this campaign is about is bringing millions of people together to demand that the United States government start representing all of us and not just a handful of billionaires,” he said.

“What this campaign is also about is saying that the wealthiest people in this country and the largest corporations, many of whom are doing phenomenally well, will finally have to start paying their fair share of taxes,” he added. “It is not acceptable to me that large corporations stash their money in tax havens and in some cases do not pay one nickel in federal income tax at the same time that children in America go hungry. That is wrong, that is going to change.”

“They are very, very religious people. Their religion is greed, and no matter how many billions of dollars they have,” he said, “they seem to want more, and that means cutting Social Security or cutting Medicare or cutting Medicaid.”

“If we do not allow our opponents to divide us up, white against black, straight against gay, man against woman, people born in the United States against people who were not born in the United States, if we stand together and are united there is nothing, nothing, nothing that we cannot accomplish,” Sanders told the crowd.