Barack Obama: “We can't just be driven by this sense that there's only danger. There's also possibility. There's also hope.”

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.

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.

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

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.