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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.

— Barack Obama Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall Speech (2014)

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