You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
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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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It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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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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What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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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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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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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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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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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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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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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above 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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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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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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