I want every young man who sees me to know that I’m not that different from them. I wasn’t born into wealth. I wasn’t born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes – but I kept at it.
BARACK OBAMALove and hope can conquer hate.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.
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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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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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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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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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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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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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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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