Hope (Radio Edit)

I've never been more hopeful about our future

I've never been more hopeful about America

And I ask you to sustain that hope

I'm not talking about blind optimism

The kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead

Or the road blocks that stand in our path

I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us

To just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight

I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists

Despite all the evidence to the contrary

That something better awaits us

So long we have the courage to keep reaching

To keep working

To keep fighting

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I believe that we can keep the promise of our founding

The idea that if you are want to work hard

It doesn't matter who you are

Or where you come from

Or what you look like

Or where you love

It doesn't matter whether you are black or white

Or Hispanic or Asian

Or Native American

Or young or old

Or rich or poor

Abled, disabled

Gay or straight

You can make it here in America

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I believe we can seize this future together

Because we are not as divided as our politics suggests

We're not as cynical as the pundits believe

We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions

And we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states

We are, and forever will be, the United States of America

And together with your help and God's grace

We will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is

That we live in the greatest nation on earth！

Thank you, America！