BARACK OBAMA: YES WE CAN (Part 2)
Yes We Can
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nd that cannot
occur if we go rear to the way belongings were. It can't occur without you,
without a new strength of repair, a new strength of forgo.
So let us call
a new strength of loyalty, of blame, where each of us decides to terrain in and
work harder and see after not only ourselves but each other.
Let us
remember that, if this financial disaster taught us no matter which, it's that
we cannot have a flourishing Wall Street while Main Street undergoes. In this
country, we go up or drop as one nation, as one people.
Let's oppose
the enticement to fall back on the same membership and meanness and childishness
that has disillusioned our diplomatic for so long.
Let's know that
it was a man from this condition. Who first approved the sign of the Republican
social gathering to the White House, a gathering established on the worth’s of
self-reliance and personality freedom and nationwide agreement.
Those are worth’s
that we all share. And while the self-governing Party has won a great conquest
tonight, we do so with a gauge of humbleness and willpower to heal the divides
that have held back our development.
As Lincoln
said to a nation far more alienated than ours, we are not enemies but friends.
Though fervor may have stressed, it must not smash our bonds of liking.
And to those
Americans whose hold I have yet to create, I may not have won your decide
tonight, but I pay attention to your sounds. I need your assist. And I will be
your being in charge, too.
And to all
those seeing tonight from further than our shores, from assemblies and palaces
to those who are huddled around means of communications in the beyond corners
of the earth.
Our stories
are remarkable, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American management
is at hand. To those who would slash the globe down. We will beat you.
To those who
look for calm and safety. We sustain you. And to all those who have speculated
if America's bonfire still burns as vivid:
Tonight we prove
once more that the true power of our state comes not from the might of our limbs
or the range of our riches, but from the continuing power of our ideals: democratic
system, freedom, occasion, and firm hope.
That's the
true brilliance of America: that America can modify. Our merger can be ideated.
What we've already attained gives us hope for what we can and must attain
tomorrow. This selection had many primary and many stories that will be told
for age brackets.
But one
that's on my brain tonight's about a woman who cast her secret ballot in
Atlanta. She's a very like the hundreds of others. Who stand in line to make
their noise heard in this collection except for one obsession: Ann Nixon Cooper
is 106 years old.
She was born
just a age group past slavery a time when there were no cars on the street or
planes in the sky when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons.
Because she
was a woman and because of the color of her pelt. And on this time, I imagine
about all that she's seen all during her century in America the grief and the hope
the oppose and the expansion.
The times we
were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American statement
of belief: Yes we can. At a time when women's tone were quieted and their hopes
send away.
She lived to
see them stand up and speak out and reach for the secret ballot. Yes, we can.
When there was misery in the dust basin and despair crossways the land.
She saw a state
conquer terror itself with a New contract, new works, a new sense of ordinary reason.
Yes, we can do. When the attack fell on our dock and tyranny in danger the
world.
She was
there to observer a age group rise to greatness and a democratic system was salt
away. Yes, we can. She was present for the buses in Montgomery, the pipe in Birmingham,
a overpass in Selma.
And a priest
from Atlanta who told a populace that "We Shall defeat." Yes, we can
do. A man finger down on the moon, a wall came downward in Berlin, a world was connected
by our own science and mind.
And this
year, in this assortment, she stroke her finger to a observe, and cast her ballot,
because after 106 years in America, from side to side the best of times and the
darkest of hours, she knows how America can adjust.
Yes, we can.
America, we have approach so far. We have seen so much. So on this, let us ask
ourselves. If our brood should live to see the next 100 years.
This is our second.
This is our instance, to put our citizens reverse to work and open doors of
occasion for our brood to restore affluence and encourage the cause of quiet to
regain the American vision.
And say
again that primary truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we take
breaths, we trust.
And where we
are met with mockery and hesitation and those who tell us that we can't, we
will react with that eternal faith that sums up the strength of a citizens:
Yes, we can do.
