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 OBAMADon’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.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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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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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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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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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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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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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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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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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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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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I’m a warrior for the middle class.
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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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