It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
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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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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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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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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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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Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
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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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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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We are the change we have been waiting for.
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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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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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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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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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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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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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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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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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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I’m a warrior for the middle class.
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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