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I've never been more hopeful about our future. |
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I have never been more hopeful about America. |
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And I ask you to sustain that hope. |
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I'm not talking about blind optimism, |
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the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead |
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or the roadblocks that stand in our path. |
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I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us |
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to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. |
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I have always believed |
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that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, |
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despite all the evidence to the contrary, |
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that something better awaits us |
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so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, |
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to keep working, to keep fighting. |
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I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, |
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the idea that if you're willing to work hard, |
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it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from |
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or what you look like or where you love. |
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It doesn't matter whether you're black or white |
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or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old |
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or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, |
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you can make it here in America. |
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I believe we can seize this future together |
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because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. |
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We're not as cynical as the pundits believe. |
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We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, |
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and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. |
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We are and forever will be the United States of America. |
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And together with your help and God's grace |
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we will continue our journey forward |
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and remind the world just why it is |
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that we live in the greatest nation on Earth. |
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Thank you, America. |
