We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
BARACK OBAMAWhat makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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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.
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Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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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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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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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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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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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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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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The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
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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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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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