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 OBAMAIn 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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While we breathe, we will hope.
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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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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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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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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
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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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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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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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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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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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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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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.
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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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