Barack Obama: “The next senator from Illinois is focused on health care, jobs, and all the struggles that the families of this state…”

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.

That's what I hope every visitor to this center takes away from their experience.

helped lead some of the most significant movements for change in human history

never talks that way when they are in the same room.