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Obama, Barack - President
Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Please, have a seat. Thank you very much. Well, good morning, everybody. |
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Good morning. |
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Obama, Barack - President
I want to thank France for that introduction and for her leadership at the Smithsonian. I want to thank everybody who helped to make this day happen.... |
| 01:19:0321 sec. |
Obama, Barack - President
I am so proud of Lonnie Bunch, who came here from Chicago, I want to point out. (Laughter and applause.) I remember having a conversation with him... |
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Obama, Barack - President
I promise to do my part by being brief. |
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Obama, Barack - President
As others have mentioned, this day has been a long time coming. The idea for a museum dedicated to African Americans was first put forward by black... |
| 01:20:0747 sec. |
Obama, Barack - President
It’s also fitting that this museum has found a home on the National Mall. As has been mentioned, it was on this ground long ago that lives were once... |
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Obama, Barack - President
This museum will celebrate that history. Because just as the memories of our earliest days have been confined to dusty letters and faded pictures,... |
| 01:21:3734 sec. |
Obama, Barack - President
Just like the Air and Space Museum challenges us to set our sights higher, or the Natural History Museum encourages us to look closer, or the Holocaust... |
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Obama, Barack - President
And that’s why, in moments like this, I think about Malia and Sasha. I think about my daughters and I think about your children, the millions of... |
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Obama, Barack - President
When our children look at Harriet Tubman Shaw or Nat Turner's bible or the plane flown by Tuskegee Airmen, I don’t want them to be seen as figures... |
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Obama, Barack - President
I want my daughters to see the shackles that bound slaves on their voyage across the ocean and the shards of glass that flew from the 16th Street Baptist... |
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Obama, Barack - President
When future generations hear these songs of pain and progress and struggle and sacrifice, I hope they will not think of them as somehow separate from... |
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Obama, Barack - President
May we remember their stories. May we live up to their example. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America. (Applause.) |