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Obama also made reference to his popular campaign chant, "Yes We Can": And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America — the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't; and the people who pressed on with that American creed: 'Yes, we can.' [ 17 ]
Hope became another repeated topic and theme in the campaign, being the fourth most stated concept behind the economy, change, and security. [2] Below is an example of hope as a motif from Obama's 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address: "Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!" [4]
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During President Obama's health care address to Congress last night (full text here) one couldn't help but wonder if even the most hardened of birthers and deathers--those who fight
5:52 p.m. Valerie Kinloch, president of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, was the first speaker of the night. She said Harris is creating opportunities for Black Americans to start small ...
The title of The Audacity of Hope was derived from a sermon delivered by Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.Wright had attended a lecture by Frederick G. Sampson in Richmond, Virginia, in the late 1980s, on the G. F. Watts painting Hope, which inspired him to give a sermon in 1990 based on the subject of the painting – "with her clothes in rags, her body scarred and bruised and ...
Former President Obama, speaking tonight at the DNC, presented Vice President Kamala Harris as a new agent of change agent against Republican fear and mistrust. Obama passes the mantle of hope in ...
Hope. Obama began drafting his speech while staying in a hotel in Springfield, Illinois, several days after learning he would deliver the address. [9] According to his account of that day in The Audacity of Hope, Obama states that he began by considering his own campaign themes and those specific issues he wished to address, and while pondering the various people he had met and stories he had ...