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Michelle Obama: “A dangerous precedent that flies in the very face of our…”

Featuring: Michelle Obama, Democratic | Former First Lady of the United States | National

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Michelle Obama speaks at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

Published | Video Starts at 13:19

All Puts us all at risk. Failing to see the humanity in all people puts us all on a slippery slope. And once that slide starts, there's no telling where it stops. A dangerous precedent that flies in the very face of our faith and of the founding promise of this democracy, that all of us, all of us are created equal. that each of us is a child of God with inerrant value. And no one, and I mean no one, has the right to sit in judgment of who's American enough. (13:19–13:34)

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Asserts that ignoring equality contradicts the founding promise of democracy that all are created equal.

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