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 OBAMAYou can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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We are the change we have been waiting for.
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Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.
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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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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.
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One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
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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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It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
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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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Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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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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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
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