Cory Booker: “So much of America's tragic and costly failures to care for…”

“It was Marian Wright Edelman. I thought that that should be the calling of this country to focus on children. And I love what Marianne Ellman said. So much of America's tragic and costly failures to care for all of its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our children and other people's children. as if justice were divisible. I see this framing that has made humanity suffer for thousands of years of those who frame humanity in us versus them.” (16:45–17:05)

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