Barack Obama Quotes About Language

• Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. To say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Kings, Men

  "Leith Anderson, Russell Moore, Other Faith Leaders Ask Obama to Reject Gov't Report Saying Religious Freedom Is Code for Discrimination" by Anugrah Kumar, www.christianpost.com. October 12, 2016.

• We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Language, Inclusion

  "Senator Obama Says Dean Using 'Religion to Divide'" by Marc Morano, www.christianheadlines.com. June 9, 2005.

• The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Abortion, Use

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others.

  Barack Obama

  Language, Monopoly, Comfortable

  "Transcript: Barack Obama and The God Factor Interview" by Cathleen Falsani, sojo.net. February 21, 2012.

• Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity...[For] we are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Men, America

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

• Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.

  Barack Obama

  Song, College, Years

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