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Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us.
Barack Obama
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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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There isn't anyone who can't serve ... nobody who can't help somebody else.
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