People always talk about looking for hope, as though it's out there somewhere, hiding, under a rock or a tree.

But maybe hope is already there inside you, like a muscle.

And if you want it to be stronger, you have to put it to work.

Today, hope as a verb.

I see a lot of hard times, but my hope and optimism also sees what's blossoming out of these hard times.

Hope is that thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and time in again, you come back and do that again.

Hope is always the teacher with the toughest homework.

It's everyone's job to create a movement, to save our future, you know.

It's called Hopework.

We'll find out how to do it as our series continues.

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When times are grim, when the future is uncertain, when you need more hope, can you make it?

And if so, how?

I've hoped because I know this just can't be the best version of the world that we can have.

And I think that that's real for a lot of people.

This is CNN breaking news. Violence erupting on the streets out St. Louis. These incredible pictures

coming in. Police in ride gear firing tear gas to break up protesters angry over the shooting

death of an unarmed teenager. 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Durey McKesson's path to hope began on the day a lot of people lost theirs.

Mike, I got killed on August 9th,

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