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.
BARACK OBAMA
Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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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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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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The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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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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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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Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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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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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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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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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.
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