Barack Obama: “John A. Lancaster, of New York, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace.”

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.