In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.

—Barack Obama

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Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president in U.S. history. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois...

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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./

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I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

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

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One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.

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Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn't been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory.

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