Barack Obama: “At the end of the day the only country that can really bring these countries back to a position where they're not…”

I was a little tall for it.

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

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

The American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away