Due 12/17/2013
Barack Obama: "And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part - through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time."

• This is a speech President Obama presented in 2008 about race. What he is conveying to the public is, slavery has gone pass what was delivered by the Emancipation Proclamation. There still isn't equal rights for men and women of every color today in the United States. What he is suggesting for this to become a true reality is for people of every color to bond together through protests, courts, and struggle to narrow this great  gap.