Obama Urges Howard University Graduates to Get Politically Engaged
Obama Urges Howard University Graduates to Get Politically Engaged
by Khorri Atkinson
President Barack Obama on Saturday made an impassioned call to Howard University graduates to get engaged in the political process, and cautioned that while social change can be slow, they should be willing to compromise with those who hold opposing views.
In his commencement address to graduates at the historically black college in Washington, D.C., Obama invoked civil rights legend Martin Luther King Jr., who met with former President Lyndon B. Johnson over the Voting Rights Act.
"Listen to those you disagree with, and be prepared to compromise. Democracy requires compromise, even when you're 100 percent right," Obama said.
"You can be completely right, but you still are going to have to engage folks who disagree with you," the president added. "If you think the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but you're not going to get what you want."
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by Khorri Atkinson
President Barack Obama on Saturday made an impassioned call to Howard University graduates to get engaged in the political process, and cautioned that while social change can be slow, they should be willing to compromise with those who hold opposing views.
In his commencement address to graduates at the historically black college in Washington, D.C., Obama invoked civil rights legend Martin Luther King Jr., who met with former President Lyndon B. Johnson over the Voting Rights Act.
"Listen to those you disagree with, and be prepared to compromise. Democracy requires compromise, even when you're 100 percent right," Obama said.
"You can be completely right, but you still are going to have to engage folks who disagree with you," the president added. "If you think the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but you're not going to get what you want."
Watch the whole speech of Obama Urges Howard University Graduates to Get Politically Engaged
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Pres. Obama should have encourage these students to think of becoming a sovereign people in a country of our own and we won't have to engage White Americans to treat us better because we will be in our own country.
If Prophet Moses had engage Pharaoh the Children of Israel would still be in bondage and slavery in Egypt today STUPID. What God did was to make the Children of Israel a sovereign people in the land of Cannan. Don't you know?