20 September 2019, Bennetts College, North Carolina, USA

One of my favourtie writers growing up was Jamers Baldwin. And I remember Baldwin saying, “You asked my father to wait, my brother to wait, my uncle to wait. How long must I wait on freedom? How long must I wait on rights and equality and liberty?”

And as a black child, that resonated with me, becauser I knew i had been denied, my father had been denied, my grandfather had been denied, and I personalised that.

But as I grew, I started to understand: poor white people had been denied, women have been denied, gays and lesbians, transgender people been denied, Immigrant children been denied. Everybody outisde of that one percent has been denied.

So I want yuou to take a few seconds, look to your left and right. Say, ‘the time is now!’ Look to your neighbour and say, ‘Neighbour, the time is now!’ There are more of us! We’re stronger! We will wait no longer!”

The time is now. When you go to that booth next year, I need you to carry in that booth, the memory of this room. Black. White. Straight. Gay. Men Female.

We are together. We are united. We will not wait fouir more years. We will not wait 20 more years. We will not wait two more presidents. We will not wait three more presidents.

The time is now. The times is not in the future. The time is not some abstract time. The time is not something that might be. The time aint something that could be. The time aint nothing that should be. That would be.

It aint tomorrow. It aint the day after. It aint coming next week!

The time is [now]! The time is [now] The time is [now]! !

Senator Bernard Sanders will be the next president of the United States, thank you all.

Here is the speech in original form, without music or overlay.