It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
BARACK OBAMANo, 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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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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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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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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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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Change is never easy, but always possible.
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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’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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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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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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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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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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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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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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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
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The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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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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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.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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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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