Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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More Barack Obama Quotes
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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
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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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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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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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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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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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Yes We Can!
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I want every young man who sees me to know that I’m not that different from them. I wasn’t born into wealth. I wasn’t born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes – but I kept at it.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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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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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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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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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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We are the change we have been waiting for.
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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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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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