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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.

Barack Obama

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 didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
BARACK OBAMA

Election Government Leadership Politics President Truth
Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
BARACK OBAMA

Proud Religion Tolerance Tradition
As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
BARACK OBAMA

Beginning Commitment New Year Ourselves Resolution Value
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
BARACK OBAMA

Democracy Entity Foreign Government Ignorance Speak
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Black Black Lives Matter Burden Destiny Greatness Strong
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
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Commitment Extraordinary Ordinary People
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Determination Goodness Hope Hopeless Wait Yourself
One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
BARACK OBAMA

Disrespect Insult Law One Liner
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
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
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
BARACK OBAMA

Book Children Hands Learning Possible Reading
Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
BARACK OBAMA

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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.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Dreamss Freedom Girl Imagination World
I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
BARACK OBAMA

Ambition Birthday Dreamss Old Strange

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