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.
BARACK OBAMAEmpathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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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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While we breathe, we will hope.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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We are the change we have been waiting for.
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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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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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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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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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