Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported.
Barack ObamaFor decades, this great leader, often at Dr. Kingโs side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay. No medal can change that, but today, we honor Bayard Rustinโs memory by taking our place in his march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love.
Barack ObamaUltimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy.
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