Historically, running for president requires overcoming a gauntlet composed of prior bad acts,

positions you've evolved, votes that are now regrettable, and friendships which now appear unsavory.

It's all the more remarkable then that Bernie Sanders has had such a long career that he can run on,

rather than run away from.

You probably already know that Bernie has been fighting for the rights of others since he was a teenager.

In 1963, as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago,

Bernie Sanders became a leader of the school's

chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, or Corps.

Core was one of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the American Civil

Rights Movement.

And Bernie led his chapter in protesting housing segregation, police brutality, and other racial inequalities, getting arrested

at age 21, and a picture which you've probably seen, but which Bernie didn't even know existed

until it was unearthed during the 2016 presidential race. But his advocacy didn't stop there.

In 1972, a year before Roe v. Wade,

Bernie told Vermont's Biddington banner newspaper

that a woman's choice of what to do with her body

should be exclusively between her and her doctor,

not a bunch of predominantly male legislators.

By contrast, nearly a decade later, another elder statesman in this race voted to let states

overturn Roe v. Wade.

While others in this race had not yet chosen to engage meaningfully in politics, in the 1980s, Bernie backed Burlington

Vermont's first ever gay pride parade and created the Burlington Community Land Trust,

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