They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because theyβre all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools canβt learn and wonβt learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody elseβs problem to take care of. β¨ Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.
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- Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day. β¨ Obama: β¦ βΆ
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