A Vision For Building One American

to live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. -- grenville kleiser restoring the american dream -- combating poverty and building one americaby senator John edwardsremarks as prepared for delivery to the center for american progress on september 19, 2005we have all seen the images from the wreckage of katrina – people packed into the superdome and convention center with only the clothes on their backs. and we’ve all asked what brought them there. many things did, but one of them was poverty.widespread poverty existed before katrina and it will persist after the gulf region is rebuilt, if we let the images that we have watched on the news fade from our memories as they fade from our television scree...