Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
BARACK OBAMAMaking your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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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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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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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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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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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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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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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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What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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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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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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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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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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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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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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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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