Barack Obama: “Change is hard, in our own lives and in the lives of nations.”

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

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

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.

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.