" If is there anyone out there who still has doubts that America is a place where anything is possible, doubts that the dream of our founding fathers is still alive, that questions the power of our democracy, this night has been answered.
is the response of young and old, rich and poor, Democrats and Republicans, whites and blacks, Hispanics and Asians, gay and straight, disabled or not ... The Americans have launched a message to the world we have never been simply a series of individuals or a group of blue states and red states. We are and always will be the United States of America ...
We set up a new spirit of patriotism, responsibility, where each of us is committed to work harder, and cater not only for us but also for the next ... In this country we fall and rise as one nation, one people. We must resist the temptation to return to the divisions and the immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long ...
These elections have already had many firsts and many stories to be told for generations, but one that comes to mind this evening about a woman who voted in Atlanta. Like millions of others got in line to make its voice heard in this election, with one difference: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.
was born just a generation after slavery, during the period when there were no machines on the streets or airplanes in the sky, and when someone like her could not vote for two reasons - she was a woman and the color of his skin. And this year, in this election, she touched the screen with your finger, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best moments and darkest hours, you know how America can change ...
I've never had so much hope that this evening with you ... It 's been a long path. But tonight, for what we did in those days, in this election and in this defining moment in our history, change has come in America ...
Even as we celebrate tonight, we know that challenges of tomorrow will be the biggest of our lives: two wars, a world in danger, the worst financial crisis of the century ... The road in front of us is long, the climb is arduous. This path does not do it in a year or a presidential term, but we will succeed. I promise you that together we will succeed.
Yes we can ( Yes, we can ).
We got this far. We saw so much, but there is still much to do. Tonight we must ask ourselves if our children will live long enough to see the next century, if my daughters are so lucky to live more than 100 years, what changes will they see? What progress we have made? Now We can answer this question.
's our time. It 's our time. 'S time to give a job to people, open doors of opportunity to our children, to restore prosperity and promote peace. Reviving the American dream and to reaffirm a great truth: that even though many, we are one. That while we breathe, we hope. And when we are met with cynicism and doubt, and those who tell us that we can not answer you with the endless hope that combines the spirit of a people:
Yes we can ( Yes, we can ).
Thanks. God bless you and God bless the United States of America. "
Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States of America
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