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I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me-and I think for all of us-not only our own hope, but America’s everlasting, living dream.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker admits a sense of national disorientation yet insists that direction will be recovered. This belief has grown into settled knowledge and conviction, and the speaker sees it as shared: a personal hope and also the country's enduring, living dream. It is an earnest, optimistic declaration made from within doubt.
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