Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That those were wrongs done to the black community as a whole, and black families specifically, and that in order to close that gap, a society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it's not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps. It is easy to make that theoretical argument.
American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders. - Barack Obama
American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.
- Barack Obama
Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't w… - Barack Obama
Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't w…
Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit. - Barack Obama
Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit.
When times change, so must we. - Barack Obama
When times change, so must we.
We've got to change our regulatory system. - Barack Obama
We've got to change our regulatory system.
Don't just consume things, create things - Barack Obama
Don't just consume things, create things
Nobody's changing what you've got. You get to keep it. - Barack Obama
Nobody's changing what you've got. You get to keep it.
There are things I cannot say. - Barack Obama
There are things I cannot say.
You work with what you got. - Barack Obama
You work with what you got.
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