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 OBAMAThe sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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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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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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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.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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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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There is no excuse for not trying.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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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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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
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I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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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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I’m a warrior for the middle class.
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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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