You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
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More Barack Obama Quotes
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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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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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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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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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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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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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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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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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