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.
BARACK OBAMAWe may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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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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Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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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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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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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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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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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 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 lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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I’m a warrior for the middle class.
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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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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 turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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Change is never easy, but always possible.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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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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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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