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Article: Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

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July 1, 2008
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The presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., issued the text of the following speech:

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You know, faith based groups like East Side Community Ministry carry a particular meaning for me. Because in a way, they're what led me into public service. It was a Catholic group called The Campaign for Human Development that helped fund the work I did many years ago in Chicago to help lift up neighborhoods that were devastated by the closure of a local steel plant.

Now, I didn't grow up in a particularly religious household. But my experience in ...

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