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.
BARACK OBAMAMaking your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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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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What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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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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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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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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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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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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