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awake

(3,226 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 03:41 PM Feb 2016

When Bernie was 21 he was arrested while demonstrating for desegregated public schools

when Hillary was around the same age she was chosen by her peers to be the first student speaker to deliver a commencement address at Wellesley College. Here is a quote from that speech
"We are, all of us, exploring a world that none of us even understands and attempting to create within that uncertainty. But there are some things we feel, feelings that our prevailing, acquisitive, and competitive corporate life, including tragically the universities, is not the way of life for us. We're searching for more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating modes of living. And so our questions, our questions about our institutions, about our colleges, about our churches, about our government continue."

http://www.bustle.com/articles/76154-hillary-clintons-graduation-speech-at-wellesley-college-was-inspiring-in-1969-her-words-still-hold

So both of our candidates started out wanting change the question we are asking our selfs is which of our candidate is doing the best at holding true to the vision and goals that they begain their adult life with.

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awake

(3,226 posts)
3. His arrest was reported in the papers at the time I do not know if he was conficted
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 03:51 PM
Feb 2016

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In which there may not be any "criminal record"

 

senz

(11,945 posts)
10. Isn't that beautiful?
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 04:33 PM
Feb 2016

I hope our millennials will inherit this mantle. So far, they're doing well at it.

renate

(13,776 posts)
12. well, I don't mind if someone has a change of heart over their lifetime
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 05:13 PM
Feb 2016

I mean, don't we want people who were raised in Republican families to change their minds?

However, I really love the way that Bernie was standing up for what's right long before he had any idea he'd be running for President.

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