"In the white community, the path to..." - Quote by Barack Obama

“You know, the bowling alley doesn‘t seem to be improving my game. That‘s the one thing I have noticed.”

“I bowled a 129... It was like the Special Olympics or something!”

“What is certainly true is that the American people, just like the German people, just like the British and people around the world, are seeing extraordinarily rapid change. The world is shrinking, the economies have become much more integrated and demographics are shifting.”

“The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.”

“This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.”

“I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat.”

“Some think, "If I marry this guy who's two inches taller than I am and who has a nice bank account, I won't die. If I buy six cars, I won't die. If I hate Jews, I won't die. If I hate homosexuals, I won't die." They think they will increase their life by shunting misery onto somebody else, but it's just the opposite.”

“If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?”

“If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.”