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Barack Obama

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patr

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Barack Obama is saying that true freedom involves understanding that we have duties to each other, not just individual rights. He emphasizes that freedom is incomplete without caring for others through love, charity, and responsibility.

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