Monday, October 27, 2008

Obama Interview From 1995
Will You Hear This on Mainstream Media?


****"I worked as a community organizer in Chicago, [and] was very active in low-income neighborhoods working on issues of crime and education and employment, and seeing that in some ways certain portions of the African-American community are doing as bad, if not worse, and recognizing that my fate remained tied up with their fates. That my individual salvation is not going to come about without a collective salvation for the country.

****"Unfortunately, I think that recognition requires that we make sacrifices, and this country has not always been willing to make the sacrifices necessary to bring about a new day and a new age." Barack Hussein Obama




Full transcript in pdf

1 comment:

irene said...

Hm-m-m-m. Didn't click on the full transcript, but your quote seems very, very consistent with Catholic (social) teaching. Nice of you to point it out.