Bernie Sanders Says Hyde Park (UChicago) Made Him a Socialist, Social Justice Advocate

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Bernie Sanders Says Hyde Park Made Him a Socialist, Social Justice Advocate

By Sam Cholke and Kelly Bauer
DNAinfo.com | September 28, 2015

HYDE PARK — Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday returned to his alma mater, the University of Chicago, a day after a poll put him closer to Hillary Clinton than ever.

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In front of a packed crowd of about 1,400, Sanders struck a note of an personal battle for social justice that started at the university where he studied English and then political philosophy while earning as much of an education in the neighborhood's tumultuous political climate of the 1960s.

"I will not go down in history as one of the great students in the history of the University of Chicago," Sanders said. "I spent many days in the basement of Harper Library reading everything except the books I was supposed to be reading for class the next day — don’t take that as advice. Do better than I did."

He said Hyde Park was the first place where he met people who had devoted their lives to social justice and civil rights issues.

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"No one in that room in 1964 would have thought it was possible, but it happened and we should be proud of it," Sanders said of Obama, whose home is mere blocks from where Sanders spoke Monday. "It is not Barack Obama, it is the American people reached the maturity that they would vote for the best candidate not just the white candidate."

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