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Barack Obama: “Let us love not with words or speech, but with actions and in truth.”

On the recordJuly 11, 2016
Let us love not with words or speech, but with actions and in truth.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Memorial Service for Victims of the Shootings in Dallas

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