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Pete Buttigieg: “Success means coming to a day when even people who were part…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Pete Discusses Need for Major Structural Reform, Live from Chicago

Published | Video Starts at 34:03

But I do believe to what you were describing earlier, success doesn't just look like defeating people who are doing bad things, though we must do that. Success means coming to a day when even people who were part of that [corruption] are as horrified by it as the rest of us. And again, this is part of what, among other moral giants of the history of humanity, part of what Dr. King achieved was. (34:03–34:14)

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Asserts that success involves changing the perspectives of those involved in corruption to recognize its harm.

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