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Barack Obama

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
If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
BARACK OBAMA

Bullying Man Respect Strong Women
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

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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
BARACK OBAMA

Dedication Education Goodness Hard Work Struggle Sweat
A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
BARACK OBAMA

Control Energy Future Inspirational Nation
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.
BARACK OBAMA

God Justice Liberty Patriotism Power Wealth
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Inspirational Person Seek Time Wait
I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
BARACK OBAMA

Country Engineer Lawyer
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
BARACK OBAMA

Path Progress Right Success Victory Walk
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
BARACK OBAMA

Finding Hope Need Raise Rise Success
Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
BARACK OBAMA

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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 child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
BARACK OBAMA

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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.
BARACK OBAMA

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

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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
BARACK OBAMA

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