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 OBAMAIn the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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Yes We Can!
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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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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You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
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Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
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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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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.
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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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