Click here for 16 full quotes from Barack Obama in the book Dreams from My Father.
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Civil Rights
Miscegenation a felony in 1960 when Obamas practiced it.
The civil rights movement was a success.
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Drugs
Understand why youngsters want to use drugs.
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Environment
Three months working on minority students recycling.
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Government Reform
Campaign race baiting works in both directions.
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Principles & Values
Mother attacked for playing with a black girlfriend.
Be strong or be clever and make peace.
Guilt is a luxury that not everyone can afford.
Racism wasn't merely the cruelty involved, but arrogance too.
Biracial heritage has caused identity crisis.
There is some hope of eventual reconciliation between races.
Poverty of political organizers was proof of their integrity.
Spent time in both Muslim and Catholic schools.
America's race and class problems are intertwined.
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Welfare & Poverty
Inner city problems are the painful truths.
Exorcise the ghostly figure that haunts black dreams.
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