What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
BARACK OBAMAPersevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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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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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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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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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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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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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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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape 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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