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Empowering future generations to strive for change from "summary" of A Promised Land by Barack Obama
My hope was to inspire young people who might not otherwise see a place for themselves in politics, to see the power of their voices and the possibilities of their own potential. I wanted them to know that change was possible, that progress was not a straight line but a zigzagging journey full of setbacks and victories. I wanted to convey the idea that democracy was not a spectator sport, but a participatory one, that the future was not predetermined but could be shaped by their actions and choices. I believed in the transformative power of hope, in the idea that ordinary people could come together to do extraordinary things. I wanted to remind them that the arc of the moral universe may be long, but it bends towards justice, and that the work of building a more just and equitable society was never finished. I wanted to empower them to take up the mantle of leadership, to be the c...
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