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Barack Obama: “Hope cannot be imprisoned and aspirations cannot be killed.”

On the recordDecember 7, 2011
Hope cannot be imprisoned and aspirations cannot be killed.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Proclamation 8765—Human Rights Day and Human Rights Week

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