Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
BARACK OBAMATake 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.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
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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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It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
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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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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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To 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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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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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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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 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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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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