We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
BARACK OBAMACynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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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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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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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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I want every young man who sees me to know that I’m not that different from them. I wasn’t born into wealth. I wasn’t born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes – but I kept at it.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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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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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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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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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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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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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.
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