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Quotes from Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall Speech — Barack Obama

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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.

Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall Speech (2014)

There is no example of a country that is successful if its people are divided based on religion or ethnicity.

Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall Speech (2014)

You need to respect people's differences. You need to be attentive to the grievances of minorities that may be discriminated against. But both the majority and the minority, the powerful and the powerless, also have to have a sense of national identity in order to be successful.

Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall Speech (2014)

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