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Here are some Barack Obama Quotes to serve as motivation and inspiration for every human.

Barack Obama had a seat on the Illinois State Senate as a Democrat.

After the 9/11 attacks, Obama was strongly against Republican President George W. Bushs push to go to war.

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Despite his protested efforts, theUnited States-Iraqi Warbegan in 2003.

As the first African American president, he and his vice president Joe Biden made American history.

He reached out to China, Russia, and Europe to improve foreign relations.

Barack Obama Quotes

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In 2013, Obama tried to thaw the relationship between the United States and Iran and the nuclear deal.

Unfortunately, Donald Trump withdrew from the deal when he (Trump) was in office.

In 2017,President Obamagave hisfarewell addressinChicago, putting hisfaithin theAmerican peopleanddemocracy.

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With everyspeech, he served poise andempathy.

With that being said, here are some quotes byBarack Obamaonpolitics, freedom, life, and racism.

They are serious, and they are many.

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They will not be met easily or in a short span of time.

But know this, America: They will be met.

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I guarantee you; we will move this country forward.

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We will finish what we started.

Everybody can recognize it.

They say, Huh.

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The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force.

So the United States of America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this web link of death.

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The way business is done in Washington has to change.

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Weapons of war have no place on our streets.

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Peace is not just the absence of war.

True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living.

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The United States of America is not the only country on Earth with violent or dangerous people.

We are not inherently more prone to violence.

It doesnt happen in other advanced countries.

Its not even close.

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Even if it all seems broken, have faith in our democracy.

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You dont have to accept what was considered normal before.

You dont have to accept the world as it is.

you’re free to make it into the world as it should be and could be.

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At my core, I think were going to be okay.

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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

We are the ones weve been waiting for.

We are the change that we seek.

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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

Dont wait for good things to happen to you.

Your voice can change the world.

Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a Nation.

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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.

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Ive got two daughters.

9 years old and 6 years old.

I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals.

But if they make a mistake, I dont want them punished with a baby.

Going forward, we must uphold laws against discrimination…

But laws alone wont be enough.

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No, you cant deny women their basic rights and pretend its about your religious freedom.

If you dont like birth control, dont use it.

Religious freedom doesnt mean you’re free to force others to live by your own beliefs.

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The government has to treat all citizens equally.

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Theres not a liberal America and a conservative America.

There is the United States of America.

There is not a black America, a white America, a Latino America, an Asian America.

Theres the United States of America.

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I noticed that there was nobody like me in the Sears, Roebuck Christmas catalog.

.and that Santa was a white man.

You make me optimistic about our future.

That all people should be treated equally, regardless of who they are or who they love.

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It is absolutely mens responsibility to fight sexism too.

Its a pretty simple proposition.

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The most important people in my life have always been women.

Ive seen how Michelle has balanced the demands of a busy career and raising a family.

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In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program around is a world-class education.

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If you think education is expensive, wait until you see how much ignorance costs.

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The future must not belong to those who bully women.

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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools.

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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

This gives us the best possible shot to save the one planet weve got.

Its pretty rare that youll encounter somebody who says the problem youre trying to solve simply doesnt exist.

But nobody ignored the science.

I dont remember anybody saying that the moon wasnt there or that it was made of cheese.

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Climate change is a fact.

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This is not some distant problem of the future.

This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now.

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We need scientists to design new fuels.

We need farmers to help grow them.

We need engineers to invent new technologies.

We need entrepreneurs to sell those technologies.

We need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech, zero-carbon components.

We need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a clean energy age.

In other words, we need you.

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Yes, this is hard.

But there should be no question that the United States of America is stepping up to the plate.

We recognize our role in creating this problem; we embrace our responsibility to combat it.

We will do our part, and we will help developing nations do theirs.

Nobody gets a pass.

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You were the change.

I am asking you to believe.

Not in my ability to bring about change but in yours.

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I believe that people are more good than bad.

I believe tragic things happen.

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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition.

It asks too little of yourself.

And it will leave you unfulfilled.

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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

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Hope is not blind optimism.

Its not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path.

Its not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight.

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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

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Dont let your failures define you let them teach you.

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We did not come to fear the future.

We can here to shape it.

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Thats what hope is.

Its not blind faith that things will get better.

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TheAmericanstory has never been about things coming easy.

It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard.

About rejecting panicked division for purposeful unity.

About seeing a mountaintop from the deepest valley.

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