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.
BARACK OBAMAFor we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
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No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
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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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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach 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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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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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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