Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Thursday Americans must stand for "economic justice."
Blacks have long suffered and continue to suffer from economic injustice, Clinton told a crowd during a campaign tour of Southern California.
"Laws have been passed," she said. "There was a long way to go before they were fully implemented, and there still is a way to go today, particularly when it comes to voting rights and job discrimination," she said.
"But Dr. (Martin Luther) King understood that in order to realize fully the promise of America, we had to stand for economic justice."
This was Clinton's second trip to the Los Angeles area in seven days. During her first trip last week, she unveiled a five-part 70-billion-dollar economic stimulus package in Commerce.
On Thursday, Clinton met with religious leaders at a church, and is scheduled to take part in a "Solutions for the American Economy" town hall later in the day.
Also on Thursday, former North Carolina Senator John Edwards campaigned in Southern California.
Edwards was set to speak in downtown Los Angeles, where he would tell voters of "his detailed plans to stand up to the powerful interests and make sure hard-working families can get ahead," according to a campaign statement.
Edwards' visit came as part of his "America Rising, Coast to Coast" tour of both Democratic and Republican states, where he was trying to prove he was the Democrat with the best chance of winning the general election despite a second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and a third-place finish in the New Hampshire primary.
On Wednesday, Senator Barack Obama promoted his proposal to change bankruptcy laws and cap interest rates during tour of Los Angeles.
Although the California primary is 19 days away, one reason for the current series of visits is that voting by mail for the Feb. 5primary is under way and the candidates have few chances left to try to persuade early voters.
Source: Xinhua
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