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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.

Barack Obama

I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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Constituation Law Nation Principle Thinking
The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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Character Country Development Judgement Treat Women
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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Change Inspirational Person Seek Time Wait
To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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Blame Flobe Judgement Leadership People Society
I’m a warrior for the middle class.
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Help Leadership One Liner President Warrior
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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Finding Hope Need Raise Rise Success
The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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Education Inspirational One Liner Poverty World
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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Ambition Focus Life Poverty Realize Yourself
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
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Avoid Failure Inspirational Learning Patience Shame
Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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Change Fear Future One Liner Present
I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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Agree Appreciate Man Marriage Past Woman
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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Democracy Entity Foreign Government Ignorance Speak
Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
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Love Offense Respect
Change is never easy, but always possible.
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Belief Change Confidence Inspirational One Liner Possible
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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Belief Birth Freedom Religious Right Women
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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Heritage Inspirational Strength Success Weakness

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