Barack Obama Quotes
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.
Obama, Barack. "Remarks by the President to the UN General Assembly." The White House, 25 Sept. 2012.
The war in Europe had ended in victory and the British people were looking for a better standard of living after their wartime privation. Churchill represented the class system, the Empire, and bellicose leadership and didn’t temper his approach to the peace that he had won. He made this blunder and associated the Labor Party and their social welfare state with a coming Gestapo—the name of the Nazi secret police. It was all over the top and the Conservative Party was trounced at the polls. He would be elected Prime Minister a decade later.
The “Dear Leader” was the name the North Koreans used for ruler Kim Jong-il, 1941-2011.
She pointed out that the contribution that demographics make to determine intolerance is small when compared with the personality characteristics of the individual. So uneducated white males or Christian Evangelists have much tolerance variability within those groups. Some have authoritarian personalities and these tend to be the intolerant people.
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
