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 OBAMAThe future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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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 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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On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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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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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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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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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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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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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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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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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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Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.
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