I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this country. I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am a fierce supporter of domestic-partnership and civil-union laws. I am not a supporter of gay marriage as it has been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You wouldn't know that if you talked to Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International or some of the international activist organizations. Certainly… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The government has to treat all citizens equally. I am a strong supporter not of a weak version of civil unions, but… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What we shouldn't be doing is trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages or working conditions... These so-called… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court had the choice not only which way to rule, pro- or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do. Just like the United… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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