“Don't underestimate the power for people to join together and to accomplish amazing things,” said Mr Obama on Monday, as he joined Martin Luther King III, son of the civil rights leader, painting walls at a shelter for teenagers.
On the campaign trail he promised to redirect the fervour of grassroots supporters into public service and “make government and public service cool again”.
The ambition evokes the spirit of John F. Kennedy's plea in his 1961 address for Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country”.
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