You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want”. It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!
The title of Reverend Wright’s sermon that morning was “The Audacity of Hope.
Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.
If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.
And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we’ve changed their lives forever, and for the better. This is an enormous force for good.
Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake.
Otherwise, though, the ambitions they had carried with them to Hawaii had slowly drained away, until regularity – of schedules and pastimes ad the weather – became their principal consolation.
It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.
And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words -yes, we can.
To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.
We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.
I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.
Let us endure these storms.
We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge.
The road we have taken to this point has not been easy. But then again the road to change never is.
You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations – to try to impose some order on the chaos, and make sense out of that which seems senseless.
As president, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering. And I also want to keep an eye on those robots in case they try anything.
But know this America: we will meet them.
Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America – they will be met.