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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

Barack Obama

History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
BARACK OBAMA

History Inspirational Life Past Patience
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
BARACK OBAMA

Heritage Inspirational Strength Success Weakness
It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Enough Game Hustle Motivational Player
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
Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
BARACK OBAMA, SR.

Benefit Government Income Long Nothing People Stop
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
BARACK OBAMA

Democracy Entity Foreign Government Ignorance Speak
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Discover Force Greatness Lying Moments Try
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
Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
BARACK OBAMA

Equality Gay Journey Justice Law Treat
If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
BARACK OBAMA

Appreciate Criticize Different Praise
If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
BARACK OBAMA

Build Business Election Inspirational One Liner President
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Inspirational Nation Room World
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
The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
BARACK OBAMA

Business One Liner Opportunity Success
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Belief Birth Freedom Religious Right Women
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

Claim Eyes Lock Responsiblity Shape World

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