Argument Quote by Barack Obama

“I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.”

Barack Obama

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That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always…

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