"Never Assured, Never Guaranteed, but Always Possible"

"'We betray the efforts of the past if we fail to push back against bigotry in all its forms,' Mr. Obama said. 'We betray our most noble past as well if we were to deny the possibility of movement, the possibility of progress—if we were to let cynicism consume us and fear overwhelm us, if we lost hope.'"

Julie Hirschfeld Davis in The New York Times reports President Obama's remarks commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Thirteenth Amendment.