Barack Obama to Human Rights Campaign: "I'm here with you in that fight"

For even as we face extraordinary challenges as a nation, we cannot and we will not put aside issues of basic equality. I greatly appreciate the support I’ve received from many in this room. I also appreciate that many of you don’t believe that progress has come fast enough. I want to be honest about that. Because it’s important to be honest amongst friends.

Now, I've said this before I'll repeat it again; it's not for me to tell you to be patient, any more than it was for others to counsel patient to African Americans petitioning for equal rights half a century ago. But I will say this, we have made progress and we will make more...I will not waver in my commitment to ending discrimination in all its forms.

Good stuff.