A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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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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When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
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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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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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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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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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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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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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