Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
BARACK OBAMAOn 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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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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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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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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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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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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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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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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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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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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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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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.
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