Dick Van Dyke Endorsed Kamala Harris Using the Same Speech He Gave 60 Years Ago at 1964 MLK Jr. Rally

Television legend Dick Van Dyke endorsed Kamala Harris for president by reading a speech he delivered at a 1964 civil rights event alongside Martin Luther King.

In a video titled “VOTE!! @KamalaHarris,” posted Monday, the 98-year-old star of “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Mary Poppins” and “Bye Bye Birdie” recalled reading the remarks, written by “Twilight Zone” creator Rod Serling, to “some 60,000 people in the Coliseum in L.A.”

“Hatred is not the norm. Prejudice is not the norm. Suspicion, dislike, jealousy, scapegoating, none of those are the transcendent facet of the human personality. They’re diseases. They are. They cancers of the soul,” Van Dyke read, in part.

He went on, “There will be moments of violence and expressions of hatred and [an] ugly echo of intolerance, but these are the clinging vestiges of a decayed past, not the harbingers of the better, cleaner future. To those who tell us the inequality of the human animal is a necessary evil, we must respond by simply saying that first, it is evil, but not necessary.”

After concluding the remarks, Van Dyke said, “1964 — a lot’s happened. Not so much as Martin Luther dreamed of, but it’s a start. Thank you, and God bless.”

Van Dyke supported Bernie Sanders in the 2020 presidential primary and spoke at one of the senator’s campaign events. Earlier this year, he publicly backed Joe Biden before the president dropped out of the race.

Van Dyke told The Hollywood Reporter in June that he believed Donald Trump is “disturbed,” in part because he’s “never seen him laugh.”

Watch Van Dyke’s video below.