I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
BARACK OBAMATo be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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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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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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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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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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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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