You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
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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Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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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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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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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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It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of 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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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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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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Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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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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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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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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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 think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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