A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
BARACK OBAMAPersevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
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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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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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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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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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When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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