To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.
BARACK OBAMAHistory doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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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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Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.
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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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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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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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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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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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I’m a warrior for the middle class.
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