"If I had a son, he'd look..." - Quote by Barack Obama
If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
More by Barack Obama
“If I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day. They couldn't have said that before I came along. The world will see the United States in a different context, as a country of true opportunity for all.”
“Our journey is not complete until all our children... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.”
“Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.”
More on Race
“The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly veryfriendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.”
“I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don't apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.”
“This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, "Who am I? Where's my heritage?”
More on Empathy
“By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them.”
“What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.”
“You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.”