When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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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.
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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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Don’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.
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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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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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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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