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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world — one that makes you understand that your obligations to others extend beyond people who look like you and act like you and live in your neighborhood.

University of Massachusetts at Boston Commencement Address, 2 June 2012

Was born on: 04.08.1961
About Author: 44th and current President of the United States
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Walls around us

We can try to build walls around us, and we can look inward, and we can respond by being frightened and angry about those disruptions.

University of Massachusetts at Boston Commencement Address, 2 June 2010

Challenges

And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.

Obama Speech on Race, 2008

Race

For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle — as we did in the OJ trial — or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina — or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.

Obama Speech on Race, 2008

Part of America

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

Obama Speech on Race, 2008

Public schools

If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better — to break the either — or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both — and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future.

Delivery, Center for American Progress

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