When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
BARACK OBAMAIf you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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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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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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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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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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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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I’m a warrior for the middle class.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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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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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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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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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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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
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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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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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As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
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