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July 17, 2009

Obama Addresses 100th Anniversary of NAACP
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President Obama spoke in New York Thursday at the 100th anniversary of
the NAACP, the nation’s largest civil rights group. In what NAACP
President Benjamin Jealous described as Obama’s “most forthright speech”
on race since taking office, Obama sounded off on his recurrent theme of
personal responsibility.

President Obama: “Government programs alone won’t get our children to
the Promised Land. We need a new mindset, a new set of attitudes,
because one of the most durable and destructive legacies of
discrimination is the way we’ve internalized a sense of limitation, how
so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world
and from themselves.”



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