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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More Barack Obama Quotes
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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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I’m a warrior for the middle class.
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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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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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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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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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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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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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You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
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One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
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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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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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