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Barack Obama: “Part of being a community, part of learning from each other…”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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Barack Obama Discusses Democracy, Social Cohesion, and Leadership at the Connecticut Forum

Published | Video Starts at 1:06:18

And now they've got to have a conversation that doesn't just focus on we hate the other side or we don't like this or we don't actually. They now actually have to recognize, oh, Part of being a community, part of learning from each other is even the people we agree with, we don't agree with 100% of the time. We have to. People are complicated and unique and they have their own stories. That I think is a lot of what we work with, our young folks is fighting against this tendency to try to just pigeonhole everybody. (1:06:18–1:06:27)

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Asserts that community involves learning from each other despite disagreements.

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