America's Dreams
Barack Obama on
The Amazement that is America
"Stay amazed, and remain in wonder at this unlikely place we call America. I think it's easy for some people to look at all the challenges we face, to look at poverty and war and racism and inequality and hatred and helplessness, and to get down on this country as a result. To think that there's something wrong with us and that there is little hope to make things better. If you ever feel like that yourselves, I ask you to remember all the amazing and unlikely things that have happened in this country. This is America. A place where millions of restless adventurers from all over the world, still weary of their lot in life -- still hoping for something better -- have longed to travel great distances and take great risks for a chance to arrive on our shores."
University of Massachusetts at Boston Commencement Address, June 2, 2006
