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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.