History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
BARACK OBAMAHistory doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
BARACK OBAMAYou can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
BARACK OBAMAWho you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
BARACK OBAMALove and hope can conquer hate.
BARACK OBAMAWe did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
BARACK OBAMAWhere you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
BARACK OBAMAThe 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 OBAMAWhy can’t I just eat my waffle?
BARACK OBAMAThe best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
BARACK OBAMAIt’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
BARACK OBAMAYou might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
BARACK OBAMAThe 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 OBAMAOur stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
BARACK OBAMAChange 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 OBAMAWhen our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
BARACK OBAMAThe worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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