A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
BARACK OBAMAWe don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
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No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
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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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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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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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We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.
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Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
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As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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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 judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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