Yes We Can Quotes

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

  June Jordan

  Change, Life Changing, Times Are Changing

  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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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

  Barack Obama

  People, Doubt, Spirit

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

  Barack Obama

  Truth, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Barack Obama

  Change, Power, Voice

  Barack Obama’s primary speech in Nashua, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. January 8, 2008.

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• You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

  Barack Obama

  World, Want, Ability

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.

  Barack Obama

  South Carolina Democratic Primary Victory Speech, delivered 26 January 2008

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• What's become of "yes we can?" That's easy. Finally people are starting to read the bills.

  Tom C. Korologos

  People, Starting Over, Bills

  The Arena debates: driving the conversation by David Mark, www.politico.com. August 21, 2009.

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• If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our Democracy; Tonight is your answer.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, America, Doubt

  FaceBook post by Barack Obama from Feb 29, 2012

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• We will remember that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea:- Yes. We. Can.

  Barack Obama

  Sea, People, Diversity

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• So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.

  Barack Obama

  Hard Work, Responsibility, Looks

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.

  Barack Obama

  Simple, Odds, America

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

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• It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!

  Barack Obama

  Kings, Moon, Land

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

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• Do we get what we want? Yes, we get what we want. God is that
  loving. If we want isolation, despair, and the right to be our own
  god, God graciously grants us that option. If we insist on using our
  God-given pwer to make the world in our image, God allows us that
  freedom; we have the kind of license to do that.that's how love
  works. It cant be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves
  room for the other to decide. God says yes, we can have what we want,
  because love wins.

  Rob Bell

  Winning, Despair, World

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• It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can.

  Barack Obama

  Night, Destiny, Pioneers

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

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• While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.

  China Mieville

  Recovery, Smell, Government

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• Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

  Julianne Malveaux

  Children, Moving, Writing

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• The nomination of John McCain is another milestone. So whether black, women, or bald, yes we can.

  Donna Brazile

  Black, Nominations, Milestone

  "My Interview With Donna Brazile". Interview with Eric aka the TYGRRRR EXPRESS, tygrrrrexpress.com. 2008.

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• The pattern of American presidential elections is that the more optimistic candidate, whether it's John Kennedy and let's get America moving again, Ronald Reagan, it's morning in America, or Barack Obama, yes, we can, always wins, or nearly always wins.

  Mark Shields

  Morning, Moving, Optimistic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.

  Gustav Nossal

  Leadership, Education, Country

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• We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.

  Ron Fournier

  Morning, Destiny, America

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