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together like sardines in a can, and it is politics that will enable us to take over ^{some of} the cities where we live, and turn them into the kinds of places where everyone wants to live and raise their children.

It is politics that gives our children lead poisoning, and it is politics that has created Socialism for Lockheed Aircraft and Welfare Capitalism for the poor.

It is politics that makes us the last to be hired and the first to be fired; that gives our kids twelve years of school but only six years of education; that has made us ^{our young men} first in war on the battlefield, but last in peace, and seldom in the hearts of our countrymen.

It is overly ambitious, however, to talk about electing or helping to choose a president if we can't help choose a city councilman back home. We cannot discuss running one black man, or a black woman, or developing a black political platform or agenda if we aren't able to