Barack Obama: “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.”

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

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

The success of this experiment was never a given.