Barack Obama Quotes

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don't exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation. And I know, because America, we, too, have had to work hard over the decades, slowly, gradually, sometimes painfully, in fits and starts, to keep perfecting our union.

Can we all get along?

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

If you can sing together, you can live together.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

Our task was not only to assert our rights, but also to bring our rights into harmony with the rights and interests of others.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Peace makes plenty.

Now the question is, how can we make our two peoples, both of whom love peace, come closer together.

In face of political differences, contradictions and struggle, the Church preaches peace and co-operation among people holding various political views

When shall the softer, saner politics, Whereof we dream, have play in each proud land?

Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.

The more reasons for people to be willing to put their differences aside, the better.

You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.

The spirit of forgiveness should prevail, and there should be tolerance and understanding among all political parties for us to move forward.