We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
BARACK OBAMAJust because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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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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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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We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.
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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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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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You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
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We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
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Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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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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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.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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