President Obama speaks out against violence targeted at gays and others in UN speech
In his last speech to the United Nations as the president of the United States, President Barack Obama spoke out against violence aimed at gays and others around the world.
‘I do not believe progress is possible if our desire to preserve our identities gives way to an impulse to dehumanize or dominate another group,’ Obama said on Tuesday, September 20th.
‘If our religion leads us to persecute those of another faith, if we jail or beat people who are gay, if our traditions lead us to prevent girls from going to school, if we discriminate on the basis of race or tribe or ethnicity, then the fragile bonds of civilization will fray.’
He added: ‘The world is too small, we are too packed together, for us to be able to resort to those old ways of thinking.’
Obama is the first US president to publicly support same-sex marriage while still in office and has championed other areas of LGBTI equality including allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the US military.
In his UN speech, Obama also pointed out that even in remote corners of the world, ‘citizens are demanding respect for the dignity of all people no matter their gender, or race, or religion, or disability, or sexual orientation, and those who deny others dignity are subject to public reproach. An explosion of social media has given ordinary people more ways to express themselves, and has raised people’s expectations for those of us in power.’
Check out his speech below:
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6 Comments
Mandy
September 23, 07:25I will miss this man when he leaves office. :'( Kai! I do so hope he will continue to be an unapologetic voice for equality when he steps down.
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September 23, 07:49Seriously…. @Md
Oh Obama!
Delle
September 23, 09:05My fave person in the world, anytime!
Rapum
September 23, 09:55Uhm, can Americans have sense and make him Field Marshal?
Delle
September 23, 10:44No, they won’t. With all the TRUMPing going on…
Fresh
September 26, 23:13Americans that fucks around