Barack Obama
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4,433 appearances
175 recordings
60 series
first heard Dec 2012
last heard yesterday
Barack Obama’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think it's possible to say that
There were populists in rural America and the South and white America that really did believe in equality and justice for white folks and helped to make progress in giving more people opportunity and not ignore the fact that that was to the exclusion of others.
And that's the kind of...
complexity that I hope people get a little bit of a sense of.
And the reason is this.
Because I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don't think it makes you love it less.
I think it makes you love it more.
And I think it also makes you more resilient.
Because then, during periods like we're in right now, where for a lot of folks it's crazy and you feel despair and anger, that perspective allows you to then say, okay, we've gone through crazy periods like this before.
We've gone through mean periods before.
it fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we've been here before.
And then there's no reason to suggest that we can't get through this one either.
Money.
For us to give it now.
After all this country's been through, to cynicism and division would be a betrayal of our founding ideals.
and a belief that qualities of character, honesty, integrity, kindness, compassion, a sense of duty and honor, those things matter in our public dealings just as they do in our private lives.
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These are not... These are the values...
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and traditions I believe in.
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And they are not Republican or Democratic values.
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They are American values we can all share, regardless of party.
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