Barack Obama Quotes - Page 2

Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome - black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.

Orang takkan pernah terlalu sibuk untuk memahami asalnya. -Nenek

We are the change we have been waiting for.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."

(Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)

it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

None of These Will Come Easy.