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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.

Barack Obama

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.
BARACK OBAMA

Compromise Defend Fight Honor Ideal Ourselves
The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
BARACK OBAMA

Character Country Development Judgement Treat Women
The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
BARACK OBAMA

Education Future Imagination People Success Young
Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
BARACK OBAMA

Bullying Deserve Freedom Happiness Insult Pursue
You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
BARACK OBAMA

Election Government Leadership Politics President Truth
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Bedroom Crying Gratitude Hustle Motivational Shoes
If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
BARACK OBAMA

Difference Give Up Ideas Success Voice Void
History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
BARACK OBAMA

History Inspirational Life Past Patience
If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
BARACK OBAMA

Appreciate Criticize Different Praise
Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Fear Future One Liner Present
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 OBAMA

Born Different Man Mistake Wealth Young
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Bullying Future Girl School Women World
As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
BARACK OBAMA

Beginning Commitment New Year Ourselves Resolution Value
In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.
BARACK OBAMA

Economy Education Knowledge Opportunity Path Value
On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Dreamss Freedom Girl Imagination World
It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
BARACK OBAMA

Each Other Friendship Love Talk Wound

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