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.
BARACK OBAMADon’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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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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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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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
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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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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to 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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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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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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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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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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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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