What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child; it’s the courage to raise one.

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"Invest in our teachers, and our children will succeed."

- Barack Obama

Empowerment

"We are the change that we seek."

- Barack Obama

Leadership

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

- Barack Obama

Hope

"That’s the promise of tomorrow — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it."

- Barack Obama

Inspiration

"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

Inspiration

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

Courage

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

Courage

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

Courage

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Courage

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

Courage