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(CP) Vice President Kamala Harris quoted from the Gospel of Luke when giving a message to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, saying that her marketing campaign is “targeted on the longer term.”
In a video message given to the AME Church General Conference on Tuesday, the Democrat presidential nominee recommended the traditionally black denomination for its efforts to get folks registered to vote.
“Organizing souls to the polls, ensuring your members are registered and able to vote,” she noticed. “Because, in fact, everyone knows that that is probably the most consequential election of our lifetime.”
Harris mentioned that the United States faces “a selection between two very totally different visions for the way forward for our nation,” together with her marketing campaign being “targeted on the longer term” whereas the Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump and his marketing campaign are “targeted on the previous.”
“We usually are not going again,” Harris acknowledged. “We are combating for a future the place no little one has to develop up in poverty, the place each senior can retire with dignity, and each individual has the chance to personal a house, begin a enterprise, and construct intergenerational wealth.”
“A future with reasonably priced well being care, reasonably priced little one care and paid depart, and a future the place we defend our most basic freedoms and rights, together with the liberty to worship.”
Harris went on to cite Luke 1:79, which describes religion as having the ability “to shine on these residing in darkness and within the shadow of loss of life, to information our ft into the trail of peace.”
“In moments reminiscent of this, religion guides us ahead,” she continued. “Faith within the promise of America. Freedom, alternative, and justice. Not for some, however for all.”
Harris’ remarks got here as a part of the AME Church’s 52nd Quadrennial Session of the General Conference, held Aug. 21-28 on the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio.
General Conference Commission Chair Bishop James L. Davis greeted attendees, stating that “we’re at a defining second within the historical past of our church and our world.”
“I hope that our mixed vitality, dedication, and dedication to God’s plan for us as brokers of liberation and social justice for all humankind, will lead us to re-imagine transformations for empowering and growing clergy and lay for the subsequent part of this journey,” mentioned Davis.
“May God grant us knowledge and braveness to guide the church He positioned in our arms within the path He needs it to go for embracing all members of the human household.”
Last month, President Joe Biden introduced that he was not going to run for reelection, and endorsed Harris as his substitute because the Democratic Party’s nominee for president.
Earlier this month, Harris formally accepted the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, having secured sufficient help from delegates although she had not acquired a single vote through the major season.
“I will probably be a president who unites us round our highest aspirations. A president who leads and listens; who’s lifelike, sensible and has frequent sense,” she acknowledged throughout her acceptance speech on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
“It is now our flip to do what generations earlier than us have executed, guided by optimism and religion, to battle for this nation we love, to battle for the beliefs we cherish and to uphold the superior accountability that comes with the best privilege on Earth: the privilege and pleasure of being an American.”
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