Maaike Kooijman Psyche 6 dec 2018, 06:00

Leestijd: 2 minuten

De 20 mooiste quotes van Barack Obama

In de Bedrock-serie ‘De mooiste quotes van…’ delen we regelmatig inspirerende citaten van wijze mensen. En eerlijk is eerlijk, als we iemands wijsheid missen, is het wel die van oud-president Barack Obama. Nu het alweer ruim 2 jaar geleden is dat bekend werd dat Trump het stokje van hem zou overnemen, is het tijd voor een klein beetje extra aandacht voor de 44e president van de Verenigde Staten.

We miss you, Obama. 

De 20 mooiste quotes van Barack Obama

1. “Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.”
2. “We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.”
3. “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
4. “There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter.”
5. “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.”
6. “If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you.”
7. “It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”
8. “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal, as well.”
9. “There is no excuse for not trying.”
10. “Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
11. “The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.”
12. “Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.”
13. “This is the moment we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.”
14. “A good compromise is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.'”
15. “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”
16. “Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.”
17. “Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.”
18. “The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”
19. “At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better
20. “Change is never easy, but always possible.”

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