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Barack Obama, the former US president, delivered a message about hope on a visit to Northern Ireland yesterday. He urged people to “insist that we can do better than we’re doing right now”.
He was in Belfast to accept an honorary degree, and at a Q&A event later he was asked what hope meant to him.
The Good Friday agreement came about not just because of exhaustion and people being weary of violence. It was also – somebody started imagining something better, and they saw themselves and each other in a different kind of way.
People ask me sometimes how I can still be hopeful. It’s an assertion. It’s a practice. It is me saying: this is how I prefer to live.
The Good Friday agreement is still a shining example of what can happen when people put aside old wounds and choose peace.
But as we have seen in many countries, including in my home country the United States, peace and democracy are not inevitable. They have to be chosen, again and again.
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