From “superhero” Newark mayor to 2020 presidential candidate — this is the life of Cory Booker.
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00:00The only way to break hate is not bringing more hate
00:03It's by bringing love and hope and uniting people to solve the persistent injustices in our country
00:20Every time they would go look at a house in a white neighborhood, this is 1969
00:24They would be met by folks that would say oh, I'm sorry. This house has already been sold
00:28I moved into that house. My father used to call us the four raisins in a tub of sweet vanilla ice cream
00:53My grandfather said that to me on graduation boy the tassel is worth the hassle
00:59As I as I went on in college and got another degree and another degree goes like boy
01:05You got more degrees in the month of July
01:07And you're definitely not hot
01:10You
01:27Some Wall Street guy saw us and sent out like five six hundred pizzas to feed folk and and it was such a nice gesture
01:33But really ticked me off because I was on a hunger strike
01:40Cory Booker, I'm not sure if you've heard of me, but I'm the city councilman from the Central Ward, but now I'm running for mayor
01:52We're still working hard on gangs on drugs on
01:56Violence in our community and we still need people to begin in a more robust fashion
02:10I
02:14Just turned around and made it very simple this woman will die if we don't get her out of there
02:21Because I'm calling on all of New Jersey to remember that democracy is not a spectator sport
02:29You
02:36Harsh sentences harsh mandatory minimum penalties three strikes
02:41You're out the kind of bills that have helped this population of prisoners to explode to be the largest
02:48in terms of percentage on the planet Earth
02:51You
02:57No American wants a president that is regal, you know, you don't want a king
03:01You want a president that is subject to the rule of law like we won't talk about
03:06Cory Booker who ran Newark into the ground
03:10What's up
03:19We must dream bigger dreams again in America that we can banish bigotry and heal hate and that we will
03:28Elect leaders that they know the only way to unite people
03:34That is what it takes to make America great
03:39You