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I'm talking about something more substantial. America, we are better than these last eight years. He said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well. That is the spirit we need today. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward.
He was a good-looking kid, six two, six three, clear eyed, with an easy smile. This belief comes from my unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people. This time we want to talk about the shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race, and the homes for sale that once belonged to Americans from every religion, every region, every walk of life. She sought out allies in her fight against injustice. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. This history is well known.
Our Party has chosen a man to lead us who embodies the best this country has to offer. America! Tonight, if you feel the same energy that I do, if you feel the same urgency that I do, if you feel the same passion I do, if you feel the same hopefulness that I do - if we do what we must do, then I have no doubts that all across the country, from Florida to Oregon, from Washington to Maine, the people will rise up in November, and John Kerry will be sworn in as president, and John Edwards will be sworn in as vice president, and this country will reclaim its promise, and out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come. For decades, there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus.
More to do for the young woman in East St. John Kerry believes in America. That is true genius of this nation. Not even close. It is time for these settlements to stop.
But we shouldn't use our humility as an excuse for inaction. I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. If your hopes have been dashed again and again, then it's best to stop hoping, and settle for what you already know. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed.
Thank you.