US Pres. Obama thanks the Aga Khan Development Network at the Clinton Global Initiative:
Sep 23 2014:
our partners in this effort, including the government of Sweden and the AKDN. Starting next year, civil society groups will be able to use these centers to network and access .... funding that they need to put their ideas into action...And we’ll start with six centers...  Oppressive governments are sharing “worst practices” to weaken civil society.  We’re going to help you share the “best practices” to stay strong and vibrant...…The reason we support civil society is because we have seen in this country of ours that it does, in fact, bend toward justice.  But it does not do so on its own.  It does so because there are hands of ordinary people doing extraordinary things every single day and they pull that arc in the direction of justice

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