“We see young leaders who embrace the diversity of this region not as a weakness, but as a strength, and who realize that even though we are all individually different and come from different traditions and different communities, we're stronger when we work together.”

—  Barack Obama

2014, Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall Speech (November 2014)

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