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Obama's speech began by quoting the preamble to the United States Constitution: "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union ...". [2] Noting his proximity to Independence Hall, Obama highlighted the tension between the ideals of equal citizenship and freedom expressed in the Constitution and America's history of slavery, and connected the American Civil War and civil rights movement ...
The Jeremiah Wright controversy gained national attention in the United States, in March 2008 after ABC News investigated the sermons of Jeremiah Wright who was, at that time, the pastor of then U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. [ 1] Excerpted parts of the sermons were found to pertain to terrorist attacks on the United States and ...
The Barack Obama "Hope" poster is an image of US president Barack Obama designed by American artist Shepard Fairey. The image was widely described as iconic and came to represent Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. [ 1][ 2] It is a stylized stencil portrait of Obama in solid red, beige and (light and dark) blue, with the word "progress", "hope ...
The president then launched into a 20-minute speech in which he called for a "new era of responsibility." Read the full text of that speech below: My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by ...
The Christian Flag is an ecumenical flag designed in the late 19th century to represent much of Christianity and Christendom. [1] Since its adoption by the United States Federal Council of Churches in 1942, it has had varied usage by congregations of many Christian traditions, [2] [1] including Anglican, [3] [4] Baptist, [5] Congregationalist, [6] [7] Lutheran, [8] Mennonite, [9] Methodist, [2 ...
Michael Wear, a former faith adviser to President Barack Obama, is launching an institution that will train Christians in public life to reject culture-war fights and to emphasize the public ...
Barack Obama swearing the oath of office of the president of the United States using the Bible of Abraham Lincoln. Allegations that Barack Obama secretly practices Islam, [1] or that he is the antichrist of Christian eschatology, or covertly holds some other esoteric religious position, have been suggested since he campaigned for the U.S. Senate in 2004 and proliferated after his election as ...
Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.”. — Douglas MacArthur. Patriotic quotes. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with ...