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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Barack Obama

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
BARACK OBAMA, SR.

Benefit Government Income Long Nothing People Stop
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Economy Education Knowledge Opportunity Path Value
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Avoid Failure Inspirational Learning Patience Shame
You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
BARACK OBAMA

Failure Healing Inspirational Motivational Teaching
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 OBAMA

Belief Birth Freedom Religious Right Women
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Blame Flobe Judgement Leadership People Society
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Discover Force Greatness Lying Moments Try
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Dreamss Freedom Girl Imagination World
If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
BARACK OBAMA

Build Business Election Inspirational One Liner President
If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
BARACK OBAMA

Appreciate Criticize Different Praise
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Claim Eyes Lock Responsiblity Shape World
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
BARACK OBAMA

Expectation Father Humour Live Man Mistake Try
It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
BARACK OBAMA

Each Other Friendship Love Talk Wound
What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
BARACK OBAMA

Ability Children Courage Man Raise
A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
BARACK OBAMA

Imagination Nation Prision Wall
Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
BARACK OBAMA

Equality Gay Journey Justice Law Treat

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