574 quotes
When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free.
Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality (2015)
This whole week, I’ve been reflecting on this idea of grace.
Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney (2015)
I tell you all this because it's important to note progress.
Howard University commencement address (2016)
We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
And this is often just a first step down a perilous path.
Remarks to the People of Africa (2015)
Selma is not some outlier in the American experience.
Bloody Sunday Speech (2015)
Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions.
You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Belief in permanent religious war is the misguided refuge of extremists who cannot build or create anything, and therefore peddle only fanaticism and hate.
Address to the United Nations (2014)
To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq.
Address on interventions in Libya (2011)
But I believe that engagement is a more powerful force than isolation, and the changes we are making can help improve the lives of the Cuban people.
Town Hall meeting with Young Leaders of the Americas (2015)
We don’t earn grace. We're all sinners. We don't deserve it. But God gives it to us anyway. And we choose how to receive it. It's our decision how to honor it.
Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney (2015)
Our democracy is not the buildings, not the monuments. It's you being willing to work to make things better and being willing to listen to each other and argue with each other and come together and knock on doors and make phone calls and treat people with respect.
Farewell to Staff Members (2017)
My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
When ordinary people have a say in their own future, then your land can’t just be taken away from you.
Yangon University Speech (2012)
Violence will not address the grievances of the Egyptian people. And suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.
Remarks on Egyptian protests (2011)
You're the ones who are going to have to seize freedom, because a true revolution of the spirit begins in each of our hearts.
Yangon University Speech (2012)
But history tells us that true progress is only possible where governments exist to serve their people, and not the other way around.
Cape Town University Address (2013)
John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
Democratic National Convention speech (2004)
Terrorism has long been a tactic, but modern technology allows a few small men with outsized rage to murder innocents on a horrific scale.
Nobel Prize acceptance speech (2009)