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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.

Barack Obama

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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Black Black Lives Matter Burden Destiny Greatness Strong
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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Book Children Hands Learning Possible Reading
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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Ambition Focus Fulfilment Life Show Yourself
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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Bullying Future Girl School Women World
Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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One Liner Philosophy Sorry Wisdom
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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Heritage Inspirational Strength Success Weakness
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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Change Inspirational Nation Room World
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.
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Change Dreamss Freedom Girl Imagination World
The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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Character Country Development Judgement Treat Women
The 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 OBAMA

Determination Goodness Hope Hopeless Wait Yourself
Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
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Build Family Live Present Remember Rock
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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Avoid Failure Inspirational Learning Patience Shame
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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Belief Birth Freedom Religious Right Women
A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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Imagination Nation Prision Wall
If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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Build Business Election Inspirational One Liner President
You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
BARACK OBAMA

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