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Quotes from We Will Not Be Terrorized — Barack Obama

born 1961 United States

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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.

We Will Not Be Terrorized (2015)

We know that the killers in San Bernardino used military-style assault weapons — weapons of war — to kill as many people as they could.

We Will Not Be Terrorized (2015)

A hundred and fifty years proved the cure to be necessary but not sufficient.

We Will Not Be Terrorized (2015)

This weekend, our hearts are with the people of San Bernardino — another American community shattered by unspeakable violence.

We Will Not Be Terrorized (2015)

We succumbed to fear. We betrayed not only our fellow Americans, but our deepest values.

We Will Not Be Terrorized (2015)

We celebrate this history, this heritage, as an immigrant nation. And we are strong enough to acknowledge, as painful as it may be, that we haven’t always lived up to our own ideals.

We Will Not Be Terrorized (2015)

Congress should act to make sure no one on a no-fly list is able to buy a gun. What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terrorist suspect to buy a semi-automatic weapon?

We Will Not Be Terrorized (2015)

And so abolitionists and freedmen and women and radical Republicans kept cajoling and kept rabble-rousing, and within a few years of the war’s end at Appomattox, we passed two more amendments guaranteeing voting rights, birthright citizenship, equal protection under the law.

We Will Not Be Terrorized (2015)

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