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Clinton: Charleston killings "racist terrorism" and Confederate flag "shouldn't fly anywhere" [View all]
Some strong quotes from her speech in MO today:
...Clinton begins. She thanks Pastor Tracy. She says that just before the shooting in Charleston last week she was
in the city to meet with students at a technical school.
“That night word of the killings struck like a blow to the soul,” she says. “How do we make sense of such an evil act. An act of racist terrorism perpetrated in a house of God. How do grief anger and despair into purpose and action?”
...Clinton wonders how it was possible for the families of victims of the Charleston massacre could say they forgave the suspect.
“Their act of mercy was as stunning as his act of cruelty.”
She quotes Archbishop Desmond Tutu: “Forgiveness is the first step toward victory.”
“America’s long struggle with race is far from finished,” she continues. I appreciate the actions begun yesterday... to remove the Confederate battle flag from the statehouse. Recognizing it as a symbol of our nation’s past that has no place in our nation’s present or our future. It shouldn’t fly there. It shouldn’t fly anywhere."
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2015/jun/23/hillary-clinton-ferguson-racism-police-charleston
in the city to meet with students at a technical school.
“That night word of the killings struck like a blow to the soul,” she says. “How do we make sense of such an evil act. An act of racist terrorism perpetrated in a house of God. How do grief anger and despair into purpose and action?”
...Clinton wonders how it was possible for the families of victims of the Charleston massacre could say they forgave the suspect.
“Their act of mercy was as stunning as his act of cruelty.”
She quotes Archbishop Desmond Tutu: “Forgiveness is the first step toward victory.”
“America’s long struggle with race is far from finished,” she continues. I appreciate the actions begun yesterday... to remove the Confederate battle flag from the statehouse. Recognizing it as a symbol of our nation’s past that has no place in our nation’s present or our future. It shouldn’t fly there. It shouldn’t fly anywhere."
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2015/jun/23/hillary-clinton-ferguson-racism-police-charleston
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