USA Today: 'Stand with the poor,' Sanders tells students at Christian school

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Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke Monday at an evangelical school where he framed his fight against wealth and income inequality in terms of morality and justice.

Sanders, a Vermont independent running for the Democratic presidential nomination, conceded that many in the audience at Liberty University disagree with his support for abortion rights and gay marriage. But he suggested they might agree that, at a time when “a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension,” other people shouldn’t have to struggle to feed their families, put a roof over their heads or visit a doctor.

“When we talk about morality and when we talk about justice, we have to, in my view, understand that there is no justice when so few have so much and so many have so little,” he said to applause from the audience of nearly 12,000.

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"It is imperative that we have the courage to stand with the poor, to stand with working people and when necessary to take on very powerful and wealthy people whose greed in my view is doing this country enormous harm," he said to applause.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/09/14/bernie-sanders-takes-campaign-christian-school/72204782/
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[Angry Dragon]

1. Go Bernie

[roguevalley]

2. Daniel, lion's den. A singular act of courage in our times. No compromise to do it either.

[jomin41]

3. Damn! He is so effing good at framing the message.

He's a genius. He has all this information in his head and presents it so clearly. The message is that we are ALL in this together when it comes to most important issues outside of the hot-button few. Brilliant!

[MannyGoldstein]

4. We are blessed with Bernie's presence

In the end, almost all Americans want the same things. Bernie is relying on that commonality. He will win.

[99th_Monkey]

5. When I first heard about Bernie speaking at Liberty, I was dubious

.. because it was in an OP weeks ago, by a Clinton supporter, implying that Bernie
was somehow 'pandering to RW nut-jobs' or some such nonsense, and I almost
bought into that point of view.

Then when I watched how Bernie actually showed up today at Liberty, with
his honesty & integrity, demonstrating how to start having civil public discourse
about issues being used to divide and exploit us; and I'm delighted to say I was
wrong, wrong, wrong to feel dubious or doubtful ... this man is literally schooling
us all on how we may actuality be able to save ourselves from ourselves.