The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
BARACK OBAMAI think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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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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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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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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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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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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