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 OBAMAA change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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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 best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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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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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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A 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.
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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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Change is never easy, but always possible.
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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.
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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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