Quote

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

Barack Obama

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
44Th U.S. President
Community Organizer
Jurist
Lawyer
Podcaster
Political Writer
Politician
Statesperson
Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital
Barack Hussein Obama II
Barack Obama II
Barack Hussein Obama
Obama
Barak Obama
Barry Obama
President Obama
President Barack Obama
BHO
Barack
Barack H. Obama
Acting
White
Black
Book
Need
Eradicate
Needs
Slander
Youth
Says

More quotes by Barack Obama

Image
Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.
Barack Obama
Image
The problem is, that we've got a position, often times by the NRA that says any regulation whatsoever is the camel's nose under the tent. And that, I think, is not where the American people are at.
Barack Obama
Image
Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation.
Barack Obama
Image
That applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now [Donald] Trump supporters. They're responding to a fictional character named Barack Obama who they see on Fox News or who they hear about through Rush Limbaugh.
Barack Obama
Image
It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package…
Barack Obama
Image
Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty ignorance and disease.
Barack Obama
Image
Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.
Barack Obama
Image
I believe when women succeed America succeeds!
Barack Obama
Image
Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids are in bed about 8. So, if I am home, I will usually start writing about 9:30 and go till about 12:30 or 1:30, depending on what my energy level is.
Barack Obama
Image
With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote.
Barack Obama
Image
Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences with the Palestinian Authority, I believe that you do have a true partner in President Abbas.
Barack Obama
Image
I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism.
Barack Obama
Image
I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.
Barack Obama
Image
We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.
Barack Obama
Image
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
Barack Obama
Image
If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership.
Barack Obama
Image
The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime.
Barack Obama
Image
The good news is that the Paris Agreement is not just a bilateral agreement between the United States and some other country. You have 200 countries who came together. It's an international agreement.
Barack Obama
Image
I mean, if you think about - if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It's the Post Office that's always having problems.
Barack Obama
Image
I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.
Barack Obama