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.
BARACK OBAMAThe worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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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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The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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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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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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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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What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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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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