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Barack Obama — Portrait after a picture by Official White House Photo by Pete Souza (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

born 1961

22 quotes, most often on Freedom, America and Democracy. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.

If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done. The American experiment in self-government gives work and purpose to each generation.
Selma 50th Anniversary Address (2015)
- America
- Democracy
Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — at least, not just; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.
Keynote speech: Call to Renewal’s Building a Covenant for a New America conference—Washington, D.C., June 2006.
- America
- Religion
In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let’s resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
Election victory speech (November 2008)
- America
- Politics
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America.
Keynote address, Democratic National Convention, Boston (27 July 2004)
We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall.
Barack Obama’s Second Inaugural Address (2013)
- America
- Freedom

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