· “My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once too.”

· “People need to learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love...”

· “If you want our criminal justice and the American society at large to operate on a higher ethical code, we need to model that code ourselves”

· “Second, I heard some suggest that the recurring problem of racial bias in our criminal justice system proves hat only protests and direct actions can bring about change, and that voting and participation in electoral politics is a waste of time. I couldn’t  disagree more. The purpose of the protest is to raise public awareness, highlight injustices and make powers uncomfortable; ...”

· “... the main point is this: if we want to bring real changes (na luta contra o racismo) the choice is not between protest and politics. We have to do boths. ”

· “I recognize that these past few months have been difficult and disheartening - that the fear, sadness, uncertainty and difficulties of a pandemic have been aggravated by tragic reminders that prejudice and inequality still shape much of American life. But seeing the rise of youth activism in recent weeks, of all races and seasons, gives me hope. ”

· “What makes me so hopeful is the mobilization of so many young people. You have helped make the country feel it needs to improve”

· “There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when shopping at a department store. I include myself among them”

· “The legacy of slavery, the laws of racial segregation and discrimination in almost every institution of our lives cast a long shadow. This remains part of our DNA”

· Did uou know that Obama has been mistaken several times for waiters and valets due to his skin color?

· “No one is born hating another person because of their color, origin or religion...”

· “It’s important for us to also understand that the phrase 'Black Lives Matter' simply refers to the notion that there’s a specific vulnerability for African Americans that needs to be addressed. It’s not meant to suggest that other lives don’t matter. It’s to suggest that other folks aren’t experiencing this particular vulnerability.”

· “I see what’s possible when we recognize that we are one American family, all deserving of equal treatment.”

· “Can we see in each other a common humanity, a shared dignity, and recognize how our different experiences have shaped us?"

· “With an open heart, we can abandon the overheated rhetoric and the oversimplification that reduces whole categories of our fellow Americans not just to opponents, but to enemies.”

· “I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.”

· Did you know? In his campaign, Obama - Obama’s race approach is not a new one, but for Obama it is the best approach that he can easily apply as he does not want to offend both people who are classified as white and black as he needs the votes of both sides in order to win the election. During his campaign, Obama does not reject the race problem in America, but he attributes this issue to economic reasons which ignore all possible negative and unwanted causes of race problems but those dealing with class. Simply problems are the underlying factors that triggered the race issue in America

· Did you know how Obama’s presidency impacts ? Barack Obama sealed his racial legacy the moment he sealed victory in the 2008 election - a black man would occupy a White House built by slaves, a history-defying as well as history-making achievement.

· Suffering from birth  - In 1961, the year of Obama's birth, there existed in the American South a system of racial apartheid that separated the races from the cradle to the grave.
Whites-only water fountains. Whites-only schools. Whites-only graveyards. 
In some states, his very conception - involving an African father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas - would have been a criminal offence.

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