For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
BARACK OBAMAWe don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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We 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.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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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 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 best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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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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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.
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