Barack Obama Quotes About Tolerance

• America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

  Barack Obama

  America, Justice, Mind Blowing

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

• Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

  Barack Obama

  Tolerance, Islam, Proud

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

• One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Hopeful

  Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic Presidential Debate on MSNBC at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2007.

• Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Tolerance, Mind Blowing

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

• Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Justice, Pro Life

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

• People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Powerful, Heart

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

• This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.

  Barack Obama

  Perfect, Tolerance, Generations

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

• We are going through historic times, and my vision is a world, first of all, in which America continues to be that one indispensable nation. Because we're taking care of our own people, because our economy is strong and our middle class is growing, and people feel like hard work is rewarded, and we are continuing to expand opportunity and diversity and tolerance and respect.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Hard Work, Opportunity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Tolerance, Doubt

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

• Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al Qaeda promote. To speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Speaks Out, Leader

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• I think there is nothing wrong with instituting policies that say that harassment of any form, whether it comes through the Internet or whether it happens to you face to face, is unacceptable; that we've got zero tolerance when it comes to sexual harassment, we have zero tolerance when it comes to harassing people because of their sexual orientation, because of their race, because of their ethnicity.

  Barack Obama

  Zero, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths.

  Barack Obama

  Loyalty, Honesty, Hard Work

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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