
Source: Al Milyūnayr Al Mutasharrad =Slumdog Millionaire
2015, Naturalization Ceremony speech (December 2015)
Context: We celebrate this history, this heritage, as an immigrant nation. And we are strong enough to acknowledge, as painful as it may be, that we haven’t always lived up to our own ideals. We haven’t always lived up to these documents. [... ] We succumbed to fear. We betrayed not only our fellow Americans, but our deepest values. We betrayed these documents. It’s happened before. And the biggest irony of course was -- is that those who betrayed these values were themselves the children of immigrants. How quickly we forget. One generation passes, two generation passes, and suddenly we don’t remember where we came from. And we suggest that somehow there is “us” and there is “them,” not remembering we used to be “them.”
Source: Al Milyūnayr Al Mutasharrad =Slumdog Millionaire
Source: No Way Out (2002), Ch. 6: Seeking Strengthens Separation
“If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.”
Address to the House of Lords (19 November 2010)
Speaking & Features
2013, Brandenburg Gate Speech (June 2013)