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| [01:00.52] | I've never been more hopeful about our future. |
| [01:04.52] | I have never been more hopeful about America. |
| [01:09.03] | And I ask you to sustain that hope. |
| [01:13.68] | I'm not talking about blind optimism, |
| [01:17.08] | the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead |
| [01:20.98] | or the roadblocks that stand in our path. |
| [01:24.93] | I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us |
| [01:28.43] | to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. |
| [01:31.14] | |
| [01:33.38] | I have always believed |
| [01:34.78] | that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, |
| [01:38.33] | despite all the evidence to the contrary, |
| [01:40.64] | that something better awaits us |
| [01:42.49] | so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, |
| [01:45.34] | to keep working, to keep fighting. |
| [01:49.55] | |
| [02:06.64] | I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, |
| [02:10.34] | the idea that if you're willing to work hard, |
| [02:12.79] | it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from |
| [02:16.11] | or what you look like or where you love. |
| [02:18.85] | It doesn't matter whether you're black or white |
| [02:21.15] | or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old |
| [02:26.20] | or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, |
| [02:30.60] | you can make it here in America. |
| [02:34.54] | |
| [03:20.35] | I believe we can seize this future together |
| [03:24.36] | because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. |
| [03:28.47] | We're not as cynical as the pundits believe. |
| [03:31.47] | We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, |
| [03:35.25] | and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. |
| [03:40.22] | We are and forever will be the United States of America. |
| [03:43.18] | |
| [03:45.78] | And together with your help and God's grace |
| [03:48.62] | we will continue our journey forward |
| [03:50.83] | and remind the world just why it is |
| [03:53.58] | that we live in the greatest nation on Earth. |
| [03:56.08] | |
| [03:57.32] | Thank you, America. |
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