Three Powerful Words

Check out this video I stole from Melissa's blog. Up until I saw this video, I was unsure of who to go with in this upcoming election. But as I was watching this for the first time, I got goosebumps and my doubt faded.

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: Yes, we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom: Yes, we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness: Yes, we can. It was the call of workers who organized, women who reached for the ballot, a president who chose the moon as our new frontier, and a king who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the promised land: Yes, we can, to justice and equality.

Yes, we can, to opportunity and prosperity. Yes, we can heal this nation. Yes, we can repair this world. Yes, we can.

We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

(WE WANT CHANGE!)

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant. We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

The hopes of the little girl who goes to public school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA. We will remember that there is something happening in America. That we are not as divided as our politics suggests. That we are one people. We are one nation. And together, we will begin the next great chapter in America's story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea:

Yes. We. Can.
Yes. We. Can.
Yes. We. Can.

This post is dedicated to my favorite political activist, Melissa Warburton. I still remember sitting in that coffee shop in Long Island, talking about this upcoming election and the excitement it was going to stir up.