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.
BARACK OBAMAWhat makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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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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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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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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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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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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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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