Barack Obama said "Progress in America has been hard and contentious and sometimes bloody." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMay 14, 2016

Progress in America has been hard and contentious and sometimes bloody.

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Commencement Address at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in Piscataway

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