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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.

Barack Obama

A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
BARACK OBAMA

Born Children Determination Dreamss Ethics Life
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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Black Black Lives Matter Burden Destiny Greatness Strong
The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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Education Future Imagination People Success Young
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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Misfortune Nation People Team Work Togetherness
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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Advertise Folk Ignorance Ignorant Talk Want
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Bedroom Crying Gratitude Hustle Motivational Shoes
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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History Past View Worst
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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Hustle Motivational Philosophy Work Hard World
It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
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Each Other Friendship Love Talk Wound
If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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Appreciate Criticize Different Praise
Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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God Justice Liberty Patriotism Power Wealth
A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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Control Energy Future Inspirational Nation
We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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Behind Each Other Leaving Let Go Praise
Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
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Love Offense Respect
You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
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Claim Eyes Lock Responsiblity Shape World
One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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Disrespect Insult Law One Liner

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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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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