Hope

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.

I believe we can keep the promise of our founding,

the idea that if you are willing 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.

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!