WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following press release:
On the eve of the United Nations General Assembly, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) delivered a major foreign policy address today at the historic Riverside Church in New York City - where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his Beyond Vietnam speech and where Nelson Mandela spoke after his release. The senator's full remarks, as delivered, are below.
It is a true honor and a privilege for me to be speaking here at this extraordinary and historic Riverside Church.
This, as many of you know, is the church that Nelson Mandela came to visit as a free man, just five months after he was released from prison, having served 27 years. He came here to thank the people of ...