The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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More Barack Obama Quotes
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Change is never easy, but always possible.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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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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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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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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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.
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