4 Barack Obama Quotes on History

Barack Obama quotes on history

22. Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once took the stage at Old Main and told the nation that if anyone did not believe the American principles of freedom and equality, that those principles were timeless and all-inclusive, they should go rip that page out of the Declaration of Independence.

26. I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

51. We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. We've got a lot of pent-up anger and bitterness and misunderstanding. ... This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.

64. This is the moment that will define a Generation