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 OBAMAWe must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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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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Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
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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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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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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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