Barack Obama, the president who publicly swore his second oath of office on the bibles of Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered an inaugural address that charted an arc of history from the liberation movements of the 16th president’s time through the liberation movements of the civil rights champion’s time to this time. It came in a remarkable soliloquy that spoke of a fundamental America duty to provide “hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice”: Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time ... Read More