"I would love to see an America..." - Quote by Barack Obama
I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.
More by Barack Obama
“It may be something that future generations are more open to, but I am pretty confident that for the foreseeable future, using the argument of nondiscrimination, and "Let's get it right for the kids who are here right now," and giving them the best chance possible, is going to be a more persuasive argument.”
“At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.”
“I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart.”
More on Race
“I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.”
“I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.”
“Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.”
More on Diversity
“The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity”
“Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.”
“We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.”