Name: Farewell Address to the American People
Uploaded: 2017-01-24T01:15:58.000Z
Duration: 51 min 26 s
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-- Michelle and I have been so touched by all the well

wishes that we've received over the past few weeks.

rarely agreed at all, my conversations with you,

the American people, in living rooms and in

schools, at farms, on factory floors, at diners

and on distant military outposts -- those

conversations are what have kept me honest, and

You made me a better President, and you made me

And I was still trying to figure out who I was,

still searching for a purpose in my life.

And it was a neighborhood not far from here where I

began working with church groups in the shadows of

It was on these streets where I witnessed the

power of faith, and the quiet dignity of working

The President: This is where I learned that

change only happens when ordinary people get

involved and they get engaged, and they come

It's the beating heart of our American idea -- our

It's the conviction that we are all created equal,

endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable

rights, among them life, liberty, and the

It's the insistence that these rights, while

self-evident, have never been self-executing; that

We, the People, through the instrument of our

democracy, can form a more perfect union.

A great gift that our Founders gave to us: The

freedom to chase our individual dreams through

our sweat and toil and imagination, and the

imperative to strive together, as well, to

citizenship has given work and purpose to

It's what led patriots to choose republic over

tyranny, pioneers to trek west, slaves to brave that

It's why GIs gave their lives at Omaha Beach and

And why men and women from Selma to Stonewall were

America is exceptional -- not that our nation has

been flawless from the start, but that we have

shown the capacity to change and make life

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