It can be noted that the claim that can be made in the speech is D. "These people succeeded because they understood that you can't let your failures define you—you have to let your failures teach you."
<h3>Effect of the speech</h3>
The excerpt from a speech given by President Barack Obama in 2009 in his National Address to America’s Schoolchildren illustrates how he stated that the students should study hard to make the country great.
He stated that people succeeded because they understood that you can't let your failures define you that people have to let your failures teach you. He was teaching the students about not giving up.
I believe that the first quote is the answer because it says that their minds are poisoned early by importance, saying that hereditary rulers are raised to feel that they are more important and can do no bad.