Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
BARACK OBAMAWe 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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Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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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.
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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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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
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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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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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