Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
BARACK OBAMAIt should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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Change is never easy, but always possible.
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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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Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
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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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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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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 real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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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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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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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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