1/ Some look at American history & only see what we've done right, with no listening whatsoever for the shadows we still need to address. Others however look at our history & only see what we've done wrong, with no listening for what we've done right. Both are unbalanced views.
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2/ A visionary politics recognizes that our history has reflected many things - both the most enlightened principles and the most violent trangression against them . Every generation decides for itself what it will feed: the better angels of our nature, or our lowest impulses.

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3/ Other generations aren’t the issue now; what matters are the choices that we make, in our time. We need to identify the problems left over from from the past, but identify WITH the problem-solvers. There were plenty. Let’s be among them. It's our turn now to re-invent America.
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