Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
BARACK OBAMAEach of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
BARACK OBAMAThe best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
BARACK OBAMAOur journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
BARACK OBAMANo one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
BARACK OBAMAOf all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
BARACK OBAMAReading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
BARACK OBAMAIt should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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.
BARACK OBAMAI 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 OBAMAWhat makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
BARACK OBAMADon’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
BARACK OBAMAI wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
BARACK OBAMACynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
BARACK OBAMAWhere there is no experience the wise man is silent.
BARACK OBAMAWe 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.
BARACK OBAMAIn the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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