President Barack Obama said he has talked to his daughters about the campus protests that have recently roiled the University of Missouri and Yale University.
His advice to Malia and Sasha: Speak up for what you believe in, but always be willing to listen.
"We talk about this at the dinner table," Obama told George Stephanopoulos Thursday on The Week. "And I say to them, 'Listen, if you hear somebody using a racial epithet, if you hear somebody who's anti-Semitic, if you see an injustice, I want you to speak out.' "
"I want you to protect people who may not have voices themselves, I want you to be somebody who's strong and sees themselves as somebody who's looking out for the vulnerable,' " Obama, 54, said he's told his girls.
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"But I tell 'em: 'I want you also to be able to listen. I don't want you to think that a display of your strength is simply shutting other people up," he said. "'And that part of your ability to bring about change is going to be by engagement and understanding the viewpoints and the arguments of the other side.' "
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