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We share a Dream, the Election of Barack Obama |
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It fulfills a dream of Dr. Martin Luther King that one day in America a person will be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the quality of their character.
It reaffirms that two-hundred-thirty years of grassroots democracy in America yet lives in the hearts and minds of her people.
It marks the passage of John F. Kennedy's torch to yet a new generation.
It represents the opening of William Clinton's bridge to this new millennium.
It renews our perennial obligation to build a more perfect union based on the founding ideals we all share rather than the petty distinctions we can exploit.
It is a time to live, a time to laugh, a time to build, a time to heal, a time to sow and a time for every purpose under heaven.
I am so grateful to be associated with so many citizens of every strip who have worked so hard, endured so much and, in personal ways, changed themselves in order to turn this nation back onto its historic course among nations. On election night my children, and young people all across this nation, got their first real taste of what "America" really means.
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