The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
BARACK OBAMAWhen our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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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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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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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
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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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What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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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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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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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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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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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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Yes We Can!
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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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