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We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.

Michelle Obama

It’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. How many angry black women have been caught in the circular logic of that phrase? When you aren’t being listened to, why wouldn’t you get louder? If you’re written off as angry or emotional, doesn’t that just cause more of the same?
MICHELLE OBAMA

Angry Black Emotional Logic Woman
Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Kind Oppression Power Ugly
You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Choice Forever Yourself
Even white people were recognizing him now.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Himself People Recognize Worth
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Education Student
The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Hurt Myself Person Understand
His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Book Himself Money
I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Friendship Idea Myself
Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change
MICHELLE OBAMA

Change Focus Live Photograph Reality
I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
MICHELLE OBAMA

Learning Myself Value Voice
The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Easy Herself Oppression Voice Woman
The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Control Lesson Life Yourself
Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
MICHELLE OBAMA

Deep Philosophy World
It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Direction Live Plant Possible Success
I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Hard Learning Myself
When they go low, we go high.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Inspirational One Liner Success

We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.

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We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.

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