Political Quotes

On the recordJune 18, 2013
No wall can stand against the yearning of justice, the yearnings for freedom, the yearnings for peace that burns in the human heart.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

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