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Transcript of Barack Obama's Speech on Race

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

March 18, 2008 Transcript Barack Obama?s Speech on Race The following is the text as prepared for delivery of Senator Barack Obama?s speech on race in Philadelphia, as provided by his presidential campaign. ?We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.? Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America?s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787. The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished...continue to full post

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