The Delaware campaign took part in several events around the state to honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Over the weekend, supporters marched in parades in Dover and Lewes. Today, we had volunteers handing out buttons and bumper stickers at a celebration in Seaford, as well as a 800-person breakfast in Wilmington. We also signed up 68 new volunteers at the Wilmington breakfast.
Also, I wanted to make sure everyone saw Barack's statement on this important occasion: "On this Martin Luther King Day, we still face too many barriers to justice and equality in this country. To tear them down, Americans need to come together. In Dr. King's words, 'unity is the great need of the hour.' But what makes it particularly difficult to come together is that we have a politics that seeks to drive us apart. We are told that those who differ from us on a few things are different from us on all things; that our problems are the fault of those who don't think like us or look like us or come from where we do. This kind of divisive politics distracts us from the common challenges we face - war and poverty; injustice and inequality. But while the critical first step toward coming together is changing our hearts and minds, we cannot stop there. It is not enough to bemoan the plight of poor children in this country and remain unwilling to push our elected officials to provide the resources to fix our schools. It is not enough to decry the disparities of health care and yet allow the insurance companies and the drug companies to block much-needed reforms. It is not enough for us to abhor the costs of a misguided war, and yet allow ourselves to be driven by a politics of fear that sees the threat of attack as a way to scare up votes instead of a call to come together around a common effort. If we are to truly bring about the unity that is so crucial in this time, we must find it within ourselves to act on what we know; and to understand that living up to this country's ideals and its possibilities will require great effort and resources; sacrifice and stamina. That is Dr. King's vision, and that is the legacy we honor today."
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