Audacity Of Hope Quotes

• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Faith, Audacity, Faces

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Cancer, Audacity

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Book, Reading

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• In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Mean

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  Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.

  Barack Obama

  Muslim Faith, People, Abortion

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• If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Barack Obama's farewell speech: this is how a leader signs off" by Ruchira Karnik, www.hindustantimes.com. January 15, 2017.

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• In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

  Barack Obama

  Book, Mind Blowing, Greek

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.203, Canongate Books

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• It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Son, Men

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.220, Broadway Books

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• On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, New Year, Easter

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.204, Canongate Books

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• Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

  Barack Obama

  Moving On, Faith, Letting Go

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.207, Canongate Books

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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.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Mistake, Men

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• To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Country, Needs, Audacity

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• I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Dream, Moving

  "The Audacity of Hope". Book by Barack Obama, www.npr.org. October 17, 2006.

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• We are the ones we've been waiting for.

  June Jordan

  Change, Life Changing, Yes We Can

  June Jordan, “Poem For South African Women”

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• we are the ones we have been waiting for

  Alice Walker

  Change, Confidence, Life Changing

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

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• Barack Obama said yesterday that the economy was 'going to get worse before it gets better.' See, that's when you know the campaign is really over. Remember before the election? 'The audacity of hope!' 'Yes, we can!' 'A change we can believe in!' Now it's, 'We're all screwed.'

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Yes We Can, Yesterday

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• In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.

  Barack Obama

  Black, Way, Audacity

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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