nt alone cannot do: teaching children to read; hiring people off welfare rolls; coming out from behind locked doors and shuttered windows to help reclaim our streets from drugs and gangs and crime; taking time out of our own lives to serve others.
each and every one of us, in our own way, must assume personal responsibility -- not only for ourselves and our families, but for our neighbors and our nation. (applause.) our greatest responsibility is to embrace a new spirit of community for a new cent
ury. for any one of us to succeed, we must succeed as oneamerica.
the challenge of our past remains the challenge of our future -- will we be one nation, one people, with one common destiny, or not? will we all come together, or come apart?
the divide of race has been america s constant curse. and each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction are no different. (applause.) these forces have nearly destroyed our nation in the past. they plague us still. they fuel the fanaticism of terror. and they torment the lives of millions in fractured nations all around the world.
these obsessions cripple both those who hate and, of course, those who are hated, robbing both of what they might become. we cannot, we will not, succumb to the dark impulses that lurk in the far regions of the soul everywhere. we shall overcome them. (
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