Barack Obama Quotes About Morality

• 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.

• I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby. But I also believe that when a gangbanger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels someone disrespected him, we have a problem of morality. Not only do we need to punish that man for his crime, but we need to acknowledge that there's a hole in his heart, one that government programs alone may not be able to repair.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Heart, Gun

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, October 17, 2006.

• I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.

  Barack Obama

  America, Effort, World

  "Guantanamo Bay Still Unresolved". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 14, 2013.

• Progressives should recognize common morality with religion.

  Barack Obama

  Morality, Common, Should

• Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

  Barack Obama

  Gun, Cities, Morality

• I think that sometimes the Democrats have to run upstream or swim upstream because we've got the Republicans making it out as if we don't care about these things, and we should be able to engage and be willing to engage in the discussion about morality and values.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Thinking, Swim

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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