While a Senate candidate, Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention, entitled The Audacity of Hope that propelled him to national prominence. that's the real word God will have us hear from this passage and from Watt's painting.' Having attended Wright's sermon, Obama later adapted Wright's phrase 'audacity to hope' to 'audacity of hope' which became the title for his 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address, and the title of his second book. To take the one string you have left and to have the audacity to hope . 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 bleeding, her harp all but destroyed and with only one string left, she had the audacity to make music and praise God .

Sampson in Richmond, Virginia, in the late 1980s, on the G. F. Wright had attended a lecture by Frederick G. The title of The Audacity of Hope was derived from a sermon delivered by Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

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