A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
BARACK OBAMAReading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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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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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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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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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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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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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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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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We are the change we have been waiting for.
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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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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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