Michelle Obama Quotes (Update: kids, get your grandparents to vote Obama)
I mean, I can’t tell you in the last election how many grandparents I ran into who said, I wasn’t going to vote for Barack Obama until my grandson talked to me, until my great-grandson talked to me, and talked about the future he wanted for this country.
You can get out there with your parents. You guys can knock on doors. I had one young lady who brought me a petition — she’s already working. You can convince wrong people. Sometimes we don’t listen to ourselves, but we will listen to our children. — Michelle Obama, San francisco “Families for Obama” event
It means all the world to us to know that there are prayer circles out there and people who are keeping the spirits clean around us. – October 13, 2010 on the Tom Joyner Morning Show
Michelle Obama, NAACP National Convention Speech July 12, 2010
When African American communities are still hit harder than just about anywhere by this economic downturn, and so many families are just barely scraping by, I think the founders would tell us that now is not the time to rest on our laurels. When stubborn inequalities still persist — in education and health, in income and wealth — I think those founders would urge us to increase our intensity, and to increase our discipline and our focus and keep fighting for a better future for our children and our grandchildren. – NAACP National Convention, Kansas City July 12, 2010
And when so many of our children still attend crumbling schools, and a black child is still far more likely to go to prison than a white child, I think the founders of this organization would agree that our work is not yet done. – NAACP National Convention, Kansas City July 12, 2010
African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children. – NAACP National Convention, Kansas City July 12, 2010
My kids are sane. – 2009, on achievement she is most proud in her first year at White House.
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction. – February 19, 2008
What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first. – 2008
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Such a gracious lady, and a real credit to the United Stastes of America. The world can really appreciate the wonderful person she is. God Bless Micelle and family.
i like michelle obama coz she is very down to earth person;:.