Further information: The title of The Audacity of Hope was derived from a sermon delivered by Obama's former pastor,. Wright had attended a lecture by Dr. Sampson in, in the late 1980s, on the painting, 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.

Freeware Lotto Wheeling Software. To take the one string you have left and to have the audacity to hope. That's the real word God will have us hear from this passage and from Watt's painting.' Having attended Wright's sermon, Barack Obama later adapted Wright's phrase 'audacity to hope' to 'audacity of hope' which became the title for his, and the title of his second book.

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While a Senate candidate, Obama delivered the keynote address at the, entitled The Audacity of Hope that propelled him to national prominence. In the less than twenty minutes it took to deliver the speech, Obama was catapulted to sudden fame, with many analysts predicting that he might be well positioned to enter a future presidential race. In 2006, Obama released The Audacity of Hope, a book-length account that expanded upon many of the same themes he originally addressed in the convention speech. In his speech addressing the Democratic National Convention in 2004, Obama said: In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? Calls on us to hope.