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.
BARACK OBAMAThe best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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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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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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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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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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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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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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You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
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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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There is no excuse for not trying.
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I’m a warrior for the middle class.
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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