Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
BARACK OBAMAA child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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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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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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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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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.
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Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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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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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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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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