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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
Photo Source: stern.de

Politics is a contact sport

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

The New Yorker, May 31, 2004

No more disown

I can no more disown him [Reverend Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

Obama Speech on Race, 2008

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

Belief in the impossible

America is an unlikely place — a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it's now your turn to help keep it this way.

University of Massachusetts at Boston Commencement Address, 2 June 2006

Reverend Wright's sermons

The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country — a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old — is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

Obama Speech on Race, 2008

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