The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke a...
Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear h...
I understand the anger. It's time for us to move to a new place.
To the larger aspirations of all Americans: the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling, the white man who's b...
Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country...
So, when they are told to bus their children to a school across town, when they hear that an African-American is getting...
But the anger is real, it is powerful, and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots only se...
And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners we will never be able to come together and sol...
Let me be absolutely clear here. I opposed this war in 2002. I opposed it in 2003, '04, '05, '06 and '07.
The statements that were the source of controversy from Reverend Wright were wrong, and I strongly condemn them. I think...
And part of what my campaign has been about is how can we push the country into that direction, so that white America an...
I just don't think that it's necessary to talk about Senator Clinton or anybody in those terms.
What I have said is that we have the capacity to move beyond them and improve our relationship with each other in a way ...
I strongly condemn the statements that have been shown on the tape.
I have to strongly condemn the statements that were made. They do not reflect my views or Michelle's views.
Had I heard those in the church, I would have told Reverend Wright that, you know, that I profoundly disagreed with them...
I have never been naive enough to think that we get beyond these issues of race or gender or our history or our past.
We have a history of discrimination and, you know, slavery and Jim Crow that continues to have a powerful pull on the Af...