We can meet this challenge if we realize this isn’t just battle of armies but also of ideas; if we rebuild our institutions and strengthen our alliances as Truman and Acheson and Keenan and Marshall did after World War II; if we bring hope to those pockets of desperation where a jihad is a better bet than a job. I partied a little too much and studied just enough to get by. Obama hat viele seiner wichtigsten Reden selbst verfasst. Across the country, individual churches like my own and your own are sponsoring day care programs, building senior centers, helping ex-offenders reclaim their lives, and rebuilding our gulf coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Religious thinkers and activists like our good friend Jim Wallis and Tony Campolo are lifting up the Biblical injunction to help the poor as a means of mobilizing Christians against budget cuts to social programs and growing inequality. The third lesson is one that I learned once I got to Chicago. So the second lesson is this:  Challenge yourself. You can’t change the world, and people won’t appreciate you trying. But in fact, I know a whole lot of thirty year olds and forty year olds and fifty year olds who are not yet full-grown. バラク・オバマ大統領が2006年、ノースウェスタン大学の卒業式で行ったスピーチ。彼が若い頃に得た人生で必要な3つの教訓について学生に向けて語ります。意外にもオバマ氏は学生時代は遊びほうけていて、夜通し酒を飲んで部屋をめちゃくちゃにしたこともあるそう。 My mother and grandparents thought I should go to law school. But I knew there was something in me that wanted to try for something bigger. Following is the text of Barack Obama's keynote at the Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America conference in Washington, D.C., in 2006. In other words, if we don't reach out to evangelical Christians and other religious Americans and tell them what we stand for, then the Jerry Falwells and Pat Robertsons and Alan Keyeses will continue to hold sway. 90 percent of us believe in God, 70 percent affiliate themselves with an organized religion, 38 percent call themselves committed Christians, and substantially more people in America believe in angels than they do in evolution. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”. Now this is going to be difficult for some who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, as many evangelicals do. But it’s not. I am not suggesting that every progressive suddenly latch on to religious terminology - that can be dangerous. I was working with churches, and the Christians who I worked with recognized themselves in me. What you should do is go into television broadcasting. To them, Mr. Keyes was an extremist, and his arguments not worth entertaining. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of. Indeed, Mr. Keyes announced towards the end of the campaign that, "Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama. My father, who returned to Kenya when I was just two, was born Muslim but as an adult became an atheist. Elaine, give me a little wave if you’re out there. I appreciate the opportunity to speak here at the Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America conference. Now, I was urged by some of my liberal supporters not to take this statement seriously, to essentially ignore it. It's a prayer I think I share with a lot of Americans. Our fear of getting "preachy" may also lead us to discount the role that values and culture play in some of our most urgent social problems. There’s no community service requirement in the real world; no one forcing you to care. “Those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law, and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law. But I went ahead and wrote letters to every organization in the country that I could think of. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten. So don’t let people talk you into doing the safe thing. And it called to mind a passage from scriptures that some of you may know: Corinthians 13:11:  “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. None of us need to do that. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. But what’s lacking is that political will. The tensions and the suspicions on each side of the religious divide will have to be squarely addressed. 31 Jan 2006 Senate Speech Honoring the Life of Coretta Scott King mp3 PDF 20 Jul 2006 Senate Speech on Voting Rights Act Renewal mp3 PDF 16 Jan 2007 Presidential Exploratory Committee Announcement mp3 PDF 10 Feb Having voluntary student prayer groups use school property to meet should not be a threat, any more than its use by the High School Republicans should threaten Democrats. But they sensed that a part of me that remained removed, detached, that I was an observer in their midst. We students have been insulated enough for the past four years that it shouldn't hurt us to be challenged for thirty minutes, especially on a day that marks our commencement into the ‘real’ world.”. Through hard work and perseverance my father got a scholarship to study in a magical place, America, that shone as a beacon of freedom and opportunity to so many who had come before. There was a sense of unity born from the rubble of those buildings – young people signing up to serve; political leaders of both parties working together; people asking new questions about our world, hungry for the answers. And that if we’re willing to shoulder each other’s burdens, to take great risks, and to persevere through trial, America will continue on its magnificent journey towards that distant horizon, and a better day. The questions I had didn't magically disappear. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all. The next day, I circulated the email to my staff and changed the language on my website to state in clear but simple terms my pro-choice position. When we run our budget into red ink for things that we want instead of things that we need, we’re indicating that we’re not yet full-grown. One of my favorite moments. But today I'd like to talk about the connection between religion and politics and perhaps offer some thoughts about how we can sort through some of the often bitter arguments that we've been seeing over the last several years. While studying here, my father met my mother. And I turned to the volunteers, and I asked them, “Before you quit, I want you to answer one question. Now, my dilemma was by no means unique. It wasn't until after college, when I went to Chicago to work as a community organizer for a group of Christian churches, that I confronted my own spiritual dilemma. After my little speech that day, one by one, the volunteers decided not to quit. It’s because you have an obligation to yourself. What’s gonna happen to those boys? It was because of these newfound understandings that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street in the Southside of Chicago one day and affirm my Christian faith. And if China and India keep educating their kids better and longer than we are, that’s where the jobs will go. A few months ago, I came across an article in your student newspaper by Elaine Meyer. But, you know, my Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. Obama's first victory speech from 2008. So let me give you a piece of advice – forget this community organizing business. - Following are the remarks of Sen. Barack Obama to Northwestern graduates at 2006 Commencement: Good evening President Bienen, the Board of Trustees, faculty, parents, family, friends, and the Class of 2006. But what I am suggesting is this - secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. And that is why that, if we truly hope to speak to people where they're at - to communicate our hopes and values in a way that's relevant to their own - then as progressives, we cannot abandon the field of religious discourse. Or will we look back on this time as the moment where you took a stand and changed the world? In fact, because I do not believe that religious people have a monopoly on morality, I would rather have someone who is grounded in morality and ethics, and who is also secular, affirm their morality and ethics and values without pretending that they're something they're not. So the question is, how do we build on these still-tentative partnerships between religious and secular people of good will? It was the persecuted minorities, it was Baptists like John Leland who didn't want the established churches to impose their views on folks who were getting happy out in the fields and teaching the scripture to slaves. Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. We know what needs to be done. Complete Text. We argue about the inconsequential, and caricature our opponents to score cheap political points. But I hope you don’t. In 2004, a one-term senator from Illinois took the stage to deliver the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Mr. Obama says he's a Christian, he was saying, and yet he supports a lifestyle that the Bible calls an abomination. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. So I wrote back to the doctor, and I thanked him for his advice. As Jim has mentioned, some politicians come and clap -- off rhythm -- to the choir. The speech … Evangelical leader James Dobson says a 2006 speech made by Barack Obama was "distorting" the Bible and offered a "fruitcake" interpretation of the Constitution. You will be tested by the challenges of this new century, and at times you will fail. Glad to see you made it to graduation. For a brief moment, there was the hope that this kind of politics would’ve ended after 9/11. You’ll be free to live in neighborhoods with people who are exactly like yourself, and send your kids to the same schools, and narrow your concerns to what’s going in your own little circle. As a consequence, so did I. •. Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life. But what they didn't understand, however, was that I had to take Mr. Keyes seriously, for he claimed to speak for my religion, and my God. Because when we ignore the debate about what it means to be a good Christian or Muslim or Jew; when we discuss religion only in the negative sense of where or how it should not be practiced, rather than in the positive sense of what it tells us about our obligations towards one another; when we shy away from religious venues and religious broadcasts because we assume that we will be unwelcome - others will fill the vacuum, those with the most insular views of faith, or those who cynically use religion to justify partisan ends. I was happy to vote for you, and I will tell you that I am seriously considering voting for you in the general election. 14 June 2006 Washington Ladies and gentlemen, this is our time. So I looked at my Web site and found the offending words. And finally, a group of older people walk in to the hall. In a world where terrorists can hide and blend into any city on the planet, we can’t just believe – as Bill Clinton says – that we can kill or jail every single one of our enemies. We would do so because we do not hear what Abraham hears, do not see what Abraham sees, true as those experiences may be. It's going to take more work, a lot more work than we've done so far. My friends had applied for jobs on Wall Street. In 2005 and 2006, Obama criticized certain aspects of the Patriot Act for infringing too much on civil liberties and sought as Senator to strengthen civil liberties protections. For one thing, I believed and still believe in the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change, a power made real by some of the leaders here today. Unwilling to go there, I answered with what has come to be the typically liberal response in such debates - namely, I said that we live in a pluralistic society, that I can't impose my own religious views on another, that I was running to be the U.S. And if it weren't for the particular attributes of the historically black church, I may have accepted this fate. Republican and Democrat alike went back to procrastinating about problems that we now have to face. Because of its past, the black church understands in an intimate way the Biblical call to feed the hungry and cloth the naked and challenge powers and principalities. They are rooted in both societal indifference and individual callousness - in the imperfections of man. And in time, I came to realize that something was missing as well -- that without a vessel for my beliefs, without a commitment to a particular community of faith, at some level I would always remain apart, and alone. And this little old lady raises her hand and asks, “Is this where the bingo game is?”. So even today, as a U.S. Floor Statement of Senator Barack Obama. And the meeting was a complete disaster. Some of the problem here is rhetorical - if we scrub language of all religious content, we forfeit the imagery and terminology through which millions of Americans understand both their personal morality and social justice. And each side will need to accept some ground rules for collaboration. So before we get carried away, let's read our bibles. She spent her days cleaning up after somebody else’s mess.”. As you go on in life, cultivating this quality of empathy will become harder, not easier. August 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii) ist ein US-amerikanischer Politiker der Demokratischen Partei. This brings me to my second point. So let me end with just one other interaction I had during my campaign. But what’s true for individuals can also be true for nations. I think that we should put more of our tax dollars into educating poor girls and boys. This religious tendency is not simply the result of successful marketing by skilled preachers or the draw of popular mega-churches. Not because you have a debt to all of those who helped you get to where you are, although you do have that debt. He explains the importance to follow your own way to get happy. Obama Speech - World AIDS Day Speech - 2006 Global Summit on AIDS - Complete Text Their summoning of a higher truth helped inspire what had seemed impossible, and move the nation to embrace a common destiny. Thank you so much to the class of 2006, congratulations on your graduation, and Elaine – I hope I did okay. And so they need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them - that they are not just destined to travel down that long highway towards nothingness. Or King's I Have a Dream speech without references to "all of God's children." But know that you have it within your power to try. And we might realize that we have the ability to reach out to the evangelical community and engage millions of religious Americans in the larger project of American renewal. There she is. An America that, above all, perseveres. The speech delivered by Barack Obama in December 2009 in the City Hall of Oslo, Norway for his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize and values the necessity of war in history and now. Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has behaved in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.". The police never came. As some of you know, during the 2004 U.S. Senate General Election I ran against a gentleman named Alan Keyes. Finally, any reconciliation between faith and democratic pluralism requires some sense of proportion. We need new strategies to fight the war on terror. And they changed the world. I hope you don’t listen to this. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. And if we're going to do that then we first need to understand that Americans are a religious people. For some time now, there has been plenty of talk among pundits and pollsters that the political divide in this country has fallen sharply along religious lines. The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Abraham is ordered by God to offer up his only son, and without argument, he takes Isaac to the mountaintop, binds him to an altar, and raises his knife, prepared to act as God has commanded. Conservative leaders have been all too happy to exploit this gap, consistently reminding evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their Church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage; school prayer and intelligent design. But it's fair to say that if any of us leaving this church saw Abraham on a roof of a building raising his knife, we would, at the very least, call the police and expect the Department of Children and Family Services to take Isaac away from Abraham. At worst, there are some liberals who dismiss religion in the public square as inherently irrational or intolerant, insisting on a caricature of religious Americans that paints them as fanatical, or thinking that the very word "Christian" describes one's political opponents, not people of faith. Barack Hussein Obama II [bəˈɹɑːk hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːm ə] (* 4. They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. I often think about the young Americans – teenagers and college kids not much older than you – from all over the country, watching the Civil Rights Movement unfold before them on their television sets. Analysis of the speech “Take a chance” by Barack Obama The speech ”Take a chance“ given by the US President Barack Obama at the University of Massachusetts Boston on 2 June 2006 deals with the generation of graduated students he talks to with the occasion to bring changes about. Back then I had a tendency, in my mother’s words, to act a bit casual about my future. I didn't. The night of the meeting we arranged rows and rows of chairs in anticipation of the crowd. The President introduces with a salutation and thanks the committee for receiving the prize (l.3 “I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility”). Later, the volunteers I worked with told me they were quitting – that they had been doing this for two years and had nothing to show for it. And since at the time, I was up 40 points in the polls, it probably wasn't a bad piece of strategic advice. Barack Obama - Race Against Time - World AIDS Day Speech Barack Obama - A Way Forward in Iraq Barack Obama - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Groundbreaking Ceremony Senator of Illinois and not the Minister of Illinois. I think that the work that Marian Wright Edelman has done all her life is absolutely how we should prioritize our resources in the wealthiest nation on earth. April 3, 2006. - Following are the remarks of Sen. Barack Obama to Northwestern graduates at 2006 Commencement: Good evening President Bienen, the Board of Trustees, faculty, parents, family, friends, and the Class of 2006. Obama’s 2006 speech on the debt limit “Mr. And in its historical struggles for freedom and the rights of man, I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death, but rather as an active, palpable agent in the world. And that night, before I went to bed, I said a prayer of my own - a prayer that I might extend the same presumption of good faith to others that the doctor had extended to me. Jakes are wielding their enormous influences to confront AIDS, Third World debt relief, and the genocide in Darfur. But a sense of proportion should also guide those who police the boundaries between church and state. They want a sense of purpose, a narrative arc to their lives. They saw that I knew their Book and that I shared their values and sang their songs. I also think that we should give them the information about contraception that can prevent unwanted pregnancies, lower abortion rates, and help assure that that every child is loved and cherished. The speech was widely covered on news networks, and made headlines across the country. To further illustrate what she was looking for, Elaine then very kindly quoted at length from the commencement address I gave at Knox College in Galesburg last year – which then completely ruined my plan to recycle that speech for this year. Mr. Obama says he's a Christian, but supports the destruction of innocent and sacred life. I had been warned of the turf battles and bad politics between certain community leaders, but I ignored them, confident that I knew what I was doing. We have a global economy that’s forcing us to compete like never before. It was the forbearers of the evangelicals who were the most adamant about not mingling government with religious, because they did not want state-sponsored religion hindering their ability to practice their faith as they understood it. And over time, a community changed. So, Elaine wrote this article entitled, “Challenge us, Senator Obama.”  I thought this seemed like a fair request, so I kept reading. We have an energy crisis that’s keeping gas prices high; destroying our climate, and forcing us to send billions of dollars to the very countries who want to cause us harm. But at that point, I looked outside and saw some young boys playing in a vacant lot across the street, tossing stones at boarded-up apartment building. On 2 June 2006, Barack Obama gave a speech at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. I was not raised in a particularly religious household, as undoubtedly many in the audience were. 0:00 / 27:14. Rather, he had read an entry that my campaign had posted on my Web site, which suggested that I would fight "right-wing ideologues who want to take away a woman's right to choose." Senator, I have to remind myself of certain lessons from my own youth – lessons about growing up and being true to my values and ideals. Mr. President, I come to the floor today to enter the debate on comprehensive immigration reform. And the choice is yours. I should be political, but not too political. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks at the 2006 Take Back America conference in Washington, DC on June 13, 2006 And we waited. I've had the opportunity to take a look at your Covenant for a New America. There’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. Because in the end, that's not how they think about faith in their own lives. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. While I've already laid out some of the work that progressive leaders need to do, I want to talk a little bit about what conservative leaders need to do -- some truths they need to acknowledge. I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturers' lobby - but I also believe that when a gang-banger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels somebody disrespected him, we've got a moral problem. And we waited. You can take your diploma, walk off this stage, and go chasing after the big house and the large salary and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should buy. Instinctively, they knew that it was safer and smarter to stay at home; to watch the movement from afar. They don't want faith used to belittle or to divide. Following is the text of Barack Obama's keynote at the Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a … What I am opposed to is a dumb war. Analysis > Barack Obama's Victory Speech Here's the video, full text and a detailed analysis of the speech Barack Obama made in Chicago on the day of his being elected to the post of President of the USA, Wednesday 5th November, 2008. And because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you will realize your true potential – and become full-grown. They're tired of hearing folks deliver more screed than sermon. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) was on campus on June 16, 2006 to speak to Northwestern University's Class of 2006 as part of the University's Commencement. Good morning President Wilson, Chancellor Collins, the Board of Trustees, faculty, parents, family, friends, and the Class of 2006. And what she wrote next is precisely what I’d like to talk you about today. I remember having a conversation with an older man I had met before I arrived in Chicago. We don't need that. Folks haven't been reading their bibles. An America that’s about not just each of us, but all of us. We can meet this challenge if we harness alternative fuels and build cars that go further on a tank of gas. It's a prayer worth praying, and a conversation worth having in this country in the months and years to come. Should I say that Mr. Keyes, who is a Roman Catholic, should ignore the teachings of the Pope? Congratulations on your graduation, and thank you for allowing me Congratulations on your graduation, and thank you for allowing me the honor to be a part of it. Who will fight for them if not us? Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition. No matter how religious they may or may not be, people are tired of seeing faith used as a tool of attack. And I have faith that millions of believing Americans want that to happen. I imagine that they would’ve seen the marchers and heard the speeches, but they also probably saw the dogs and the fire hoses, or the footage of innocent people being beaten within an inch of their lives; or heard the news the day those four little girls died when someone threw a bomb into their church. Will the years pass with barely a whisper from your generation? The bill passed in the Senate in a 80 to 19 vote and was signed into law that October by President George W. Bush. Many of them would listen to their President tell them that a house divided cannot stand, and they would answer the call to save a union and free a people. Good morning. I’m supposed to be hopeful, but not cheesy. Dass ein US-Präsident das tut, ist absolut außergewöhnlich. Nothing is more transparent than inauthentic expressions of faith. We have a health care crisis in this country that’s left 46 million Americans uninsured; that’s left millions unable to deal with rising co-payments; that’s left businesses near bankruptcy. When we measure our greatness as a nation by how far the stock market rises or falls instead of how many opportunities we’ve opened up for America’s children, we’re displaying a preference for the childish. Of course, in the end God sends down an angel to intercede at the very last minute, and Abraham passes God's test of devotion. You need to embrace Christ precisely because you have sins to wash away - because you are human and need an ally in this difficult journey. But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side, I felt that I heard God's spirit beckoning me. Es kommen Zeitzeugen zu Wort, die erzählen, was aus diesen Worten … At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. We can talk to the press, and we can discuss the religious call to address poverty and environmental stewardship all we want, but it won't have an impact unless we tackle head-on the mutual suspicion that sometimes exists between religious America and secular America. But at some point, we began to drift. But I also believe that a transformation of conscience and a genuine commitment to diversity on the part of the nation's CEOs could bring about quicker results than a battalion of lawyers. Indeed, the single biggest "gap" in party affiliation among white Americans today is not between men and women, or those who reside in so-called Red States and those who reside in Blue, but between those who attend church regularly and those who don't. It involves the compromise, the art of what's possible. Some were years that just rolled into the next, and others would mark a turning point in our nation. 2002 Federal Plaza, Chicago I don't oppose all wars. Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount - a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application? Mr. Keyes is well-versed in the Jerry Falwell-Pat Robertson style of rhetoric that often labels progressives as both immoral and godless.
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