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Barack Obama: Wherever the light of freedom is lit, the world becomes a brighter place.

On the recordMarch 19, 2011
Wherever the light of freedom is lit, the world becomes a brighter place.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks in Rio de Janeiro

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