I think to understand the Obama campaign, one must truly see and hear the foundations upon which it is built. This campaign, its message and its success are not new; they died 40 years ago at the Ambassador Hotel. It's a bleak statement and rash generalization, but take a half hour and listen to Bobby Kennedy speak and I think you'll see better why America is so ready for this movement.
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
Bobby Kennedy, University of Cape Town, South Africa (1966)
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