Authors: Barack Obama

Race and Civil Rights
1989–Present

Remarks on the Economy (2012)

Source: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/06/remarks-president-economy-osawatomie-kansas. My grandparents served during World War II. He was a soldier in Patton’s Army; she was a worker on a bomber assembly line.1 And together, they shared the

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Race and Civil Rights
1989–Present

A More Perfect Union

Source: https://www.c-span.org/video/?204519-1/road-white-house. Used in accordance with C-SPAN’s terms and conditions of use. A transcription of the full speech is available at Barack Obama, Address at the National Constitution Center in

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1989–Present

Remarks at the Signing of the Violence against Women Act

Source: Available online from the Obama White House Press Office, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/07/remarks-president-and-vice-president-signing-violence-against-women-act. Remarks by Joseph Biden Those of you who have been around awhile with me know that I quote my

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Race and Civil Rights

Inaugural Address (2009)

Barack Obama, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/217053 My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us,

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