Barack Obama’s Inaugural Speech

Barack Obama’s Inaugural speech of 2013, promoted equality for all Americans. In the United States Barack Obama was elected the first African-American president for the second time in history. Barack Obama led our nation to new developments and growth. He  united our nation, which drew strength and courage from younger people who denied their generations indifferences.

In 2013, Barack Obama made his Inaugural Address speech to persuade the American people that he could form America into a  better place with their help.

In his speech Obama states that we must go through a journey before we earn our equality,  “For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts.  Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote.   Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity”(office of press secretary).

To further explain this evidence, Barack Obama  accepted all Americans for who they were. Obama explained  that we will never be perfect, but we need to be equal no matter the ethnicity, race, or gender. Furthermore, Obama’s recollection of past events informs us that our country has made significant changes since those events. “We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths that all of us are created equal is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth”(Office of Press Secretary). In addition, Barack Obama explains that since we are created equal, we should be treated equal. He explains that our equality brings us together, and doesn’t let us standalone.

Moreover, Obama explains how our world changes, along with the people that live in it, “But we have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation and one people”(office of press secretary). In comparison to my life, Barack Obama explains that this world will change and I will go through changes as well. In life, I have to make decisions, which will bring challenges that I have to face.

To conclude, with this speech  Barack Obama has encouraged all races, young and old, to embrace a better America through his leadership. Americans have been through crisis and have overcome them all. He promoted  equality, which  would pave the way for our future generations.

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