Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
BARACK OBAMATo 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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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
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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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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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There is no excuse for not trying.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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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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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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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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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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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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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.
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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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