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Applying Selma’s Moral Clarity To Iran

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President Obama's address on the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march contained moral clarity that is lacking in his negotiations with Tehran. [Credit: ABC News]

Pres­i­dent Oba­ma’s address on the 50th anniver­sary of the Sel­ma to Mont­gomery march con­tained moral clar­i­ty that is miss­ing from his nego­ti­a­tions with Tehran. [Cred­it: ABC News]

Amer­i­ca is not some frag­ile thing.  We are large, in the words of Whit­man, con­tain­ing mul­ti­tudes.  We are bois­ter­ous and diverse and full of ener­gy, per­pet­u­al­ly young in spir­it. Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma, March 7, 2015, Sel­ma, Alabama

The days when the Jew­ish peo­ple remained pas­sive in the face of geno­ci­dal ene­mies, those days are over….Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Netanyahu, March 3, 2015, Wash­ing­ton.

Two speech­es, deliv­ered just four days apart, remind­ed us how lead­ers can moti­vate and inspire, stir our pas­sions and call us to great things.  Most of all, they can bring moral clar­i­ty to the com­plex real­i­ties of a messy world. Con­tin­ue read­ing →