We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
BARACK OBAMATo those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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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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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
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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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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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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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