Barack Obama Quotes About Extremism

• We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.

  Barack Obama

  War, People, Islam

  Barack Obama's Remarks in Closing of the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 18, 2015.

• Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

  Barack Obama

  Mind Blowing, Important, Islam

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

• Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense.

  Barack Obama

  People, President, Pathways

  "Politics and Foreign Aid: What Romney and Obama Can Learn from Huckabee and Lincoln" by Tom Murphy, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2012.

• We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

  Barack Obama

  Hopelessness, Enough, Violent

  Remarks As Prepared for Delivery by President Barack Obama, Address to the United Nations General Assembly, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 24, 2014.

• Where we get into problems, typically, is when our personal religious faith, or the community of faith that we participate in, tips into a sort of fundamentalist extremism, in which it's not enough for us to believe what we believe, but we start feeling obligated to, you know, hit you over the head because you don't believe the same thing. Or to treat you as somebody who's less than I am.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Believe, Community

  Source: www.patheos.com

• To overcome extremism, we must also be vigilant in upholding the values our troops defend – because there is no force in the world more powerful than the example of America. That is why I have ordered the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and will seek swift and certain justice for captured terrorists – because living our values doesn't make us weaker, it makes us safer and it makes us stronger.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, America, Justice

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

• If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part.

  Barack Obama

  People, Community, Promise

  Remarks by the President in Closing of the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 18, 2015.

• When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Rights, People

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism at the State Department in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 19, 2015.

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