If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
BARACK OBAMAOur stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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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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In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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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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Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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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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No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
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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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Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
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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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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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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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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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