The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
BARACK OBAMAOf all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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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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We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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We are the change we have been waiting for.
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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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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
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When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
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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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