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Barack Obama on fatherhood, character, and how to live

1 sourced quote from Barack Obama, each with the original work, the year, and links to a primary or scholarly source you can check yourself. Selected for what they say to a man raising children.

“What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child — it is the courage to raise one.”
Father's Day Speech, Apostolic Church of God, Chicago, 2008

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Works quoted here: Father's Day Speech, Apostolic Church of God, Chicago.