Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
BARACK OBAMAYou can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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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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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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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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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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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
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We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.
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