There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that. Yes, I went to Princeton and … - Barack Obama

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The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.

Barack Obama

There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that. Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.

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