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Barack Obama on Women

born 1961 United States

← All quotes by Barack Obama

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Across the nation, people from all walks of life have poured into the streets to protest the deaths of unarmed Black men and women at the hands of the police.

Citizenship demands participation and responsibility, and service to our country and to one another. And few embody that more than our men and women in uniform.

It’s fitting every day to pay tribute to the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States of America.

Weekly Address (2010)

The best measure of how a country does economically in terms of development is how does it treat its women.

Young African Leaders Initiative Presidential Summit Town Hall speech (2015)

If you want your country to grow and succeed, you have to empower your women.

Remarks to the People of Africa (2015)

Our nations are strongest when we uphold the equality of all our people -- and that includes our women.

Address to the People of India (2015)

Today, women make up about half our workforce, but they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it's an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

A woman who is denied an education is denied equality.

A New Beginning (2009)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barack Obama (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.