September 15, 2008 07:17 AM UTC

Colorado students unite for Obama

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• by: Jenn at Obama for America in Colorado

From the Colorado for Obama blog.

Yesterday, a group of students from across Colorado came together for a Campaign for Change Youth Leadership Conference, where they learned about their crucial role in helping Barack win Colorado.

Colorado Youth Vote Director, Jacqui Barry, lead the conference. She talked about the important role that young people have played in history and what that means for the campaign. She said:

It was the student activists in the civil rights movement who marched. It was the Student Activists that took the buses to Bergmingham and marched. It was the Student Activists who fought for Women’s Liberation and said women deserve rights.

And now, today, it’s the student activists in this room that are going to change the course of this country. It’s you guys who are going to win Colorado. And it’s us that are going to win this country and, in course, change the world.