It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
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More Barack Obama Quotes
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I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
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Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.
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