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Compromise and Discourse Today

Question 7 • EA Academy Civics 9

Read the quotation from Barack Obama’s 2016 address to the graduates of Howard University. If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but you’re not going to get what you want. –President Barack Obama, May 7, 2016

Answer
A
Compromise is often necessary to bring about change.
B
People should not compromise if they want to bring about change.
C
People should not compromise if they want to remain morally pure.
D
Compromise makes people feel good about themselves and their actions.
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