#Repost @christiebrinkley • • • • • • "You cannot take your freedoms for granted. Just like generations who have come before you, you have to do your part to preserve and protect those freedoms... you need to be preparing yourself to add your voice to our national conversation," Mrs. Obama said during her final speech as First Lady of the United States in 2017 “Strong men, strong men, men who are truly role models, don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful," she said during a 2016 speech in New Hampshire. ”When they go low , we go high.” And Barack Obama inspired with these words “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.” “My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.” Barack Obama “Americans still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.” – Barack Obama Brilliant absolutely gorgeous portrait of President Barack Obama is a 2018 by the artist Kehinde Wiley for the National Portrait Gallery. @kehindewiley @barackobama @nationalportraitgallery and the elegant portrait of the beautiful inside and out @michelleobama is by the young Artist Amy Sherald, also in the National Portrait Gallery these portraits inspire young black Americans to know that in America anything is indeed possible! #happybarakobamaday #hope #yeswecan #wegohigh #losefollowersnotselfrespect #epluribusunum #outofmanyone #unity #unitedwestand #unite #uniter ❤️💙 https://www.instagram.com/p/CCGn5f4Aujo/?igshid=j1a8d9i8w6hf