We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
BARACK OBAMAThe 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.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
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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.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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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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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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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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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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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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Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
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Yes We Can!
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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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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Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
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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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I’m a warrior for the middle class.
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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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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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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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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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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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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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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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