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Barack Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright once referenced this 1885 painting as a symbol of 'the audacity to hope.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Watts-Hope2.jpg
The figure of Hope, in this image, was blindfolded (symbolism of unable to see what tomorrow may bring, that there's darkness in life), sitting on the globe (representing the world) and trying to play/make music (music being the sweet things in life) on a broken lyre that has only one string left (representing the final chance that one has).
A futile attempt? Perhaps. But with even just that one chord remaining, if one is willing to try, one may still be rewarded with music.
Watts himself once explained that "Hope need not mean expectancy. It suggests here rather the music which can come from the remaining chord".
In short, one who has hope doesn't necessarily expect things to go exactly how it should be, but things are still not completely impossible even at the darkest/lowest point. Therefore, the audicity to hope. To dare to hope.
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