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.
BARACK OBAMAWhat makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.
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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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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
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I want every young man who sees me to know that I’m not that different from them. I wasn’t born into wealth. I wasn’t born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes – but I kept at it.
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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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