No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
BARACK OBAMATake 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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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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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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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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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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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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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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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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The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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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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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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