It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.
The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go along with them. They resisted, they refused to accept the world as it is, they demanded it to be a better reflection of their highest dreams and highest aspirations.
Life is about where you are right now, and the choices you make.
Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That’s really what life is about.
As you put your sights on your goals – no matter how great and compelling they are – as you look into the distance, don’t forget what is right in front of you today. No matter how great your dreams, no matter how great your destiny, the biggest thing you can do in any day is a small act of kindness.
I still have that new senator smell.
Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.
May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.
Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.
Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!
Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn’t class warfare – it’s patriotism.
If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.
The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.
You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.
Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.
Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give.
You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.
In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.