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Barack Obama: “She was a mentor, to all she was a friend, but to you she was family.”

On the recordApril 28, 2010
She was a mentor, to all she was a friend, but to you she was family.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Eulogy at a Funeral Service for Civil Rights Activist Dorothy I. Height

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