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 OBAMAI wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
More Barack Obama Quotes
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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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.
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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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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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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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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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I’m a warrior for the middle class.
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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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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.
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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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