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this is America's
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day this is democracy's day a day of
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history and hope of renewal and
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resolve through a crucible for the ages
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America has been tested a new and
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America has risen to the
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challenge today we celebrate the Triumph
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not of a candidate but of a cause the
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cause of
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democracy the people the will of the
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people has been heard and the will of
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the people has been
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heeded we've learned again that
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democracy is
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precious democracy is
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fragile and at this hour my friends
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democracy has prevailed
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so now on this Hallowed Ground we just a
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few days
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ago violence sought to shape the
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capital's very
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Foundation we come together as one
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nation under God
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indivisible to carry out the peaceful
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transfer of power as we have for more
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than two
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centuries as we look ahead and our
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uniquely American
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way Restless bold
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optimistic and set our sights on the
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nation we know we can be and we must
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be I thank my predecessors of both
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parties for their presence here
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today I thank them from the bottom of my
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heart and I
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know and I know the resilience of our
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Constitution and the strength the
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strength of our
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nation as does President Carter who I
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spoke with last night who cannot be with
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us today but whom we salute for his
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lifetime and
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service I've just taken the sacred oath
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each of those
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Patriots have taken the oath first sworn
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B by George
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Washington but the American story
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depends not on any one of us not on some
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of us but on all of us on we the
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people who seek a more perfect
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union this is a great
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nation we are good people and over the
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centuries through storm and
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strife in peace and in war we've come so
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far but we still have far to
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go we'll press forward with speed and
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urgency for we have much to do in this
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winter of peril and significant
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possibilities much to repair much to
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restore much to heal much to build and
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much to
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gain few people in our nation's history
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have been more
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challenged or found a time more
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challenging or difficult than the time
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we're in
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now once in a century virus that
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silently stalks the country is taken as
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many lives in one year as America lost
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in all of World War
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II millions of jobs have been lost
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hundreds of thousands of businesses
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closed
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a cry for racial Justice some 400 years
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in the making moves us the dream of
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justice for all will be deferred no
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longer a cry for survival comes from
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planet itself a cry that can't be any
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more desperate or any more clear and now
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arise of political extremism white
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supremacy
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domestic
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terrorism that we must confront and we
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will
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defeat to overcome these challenges to
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restore the soul and secure the future
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of
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America requires so much more than
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words it requires the most elusive of
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all things in a
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democracy
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Unity Unity
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in another
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January on New Year's Day in
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1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the
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Emancipation
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Proclamation when he put pen to paper
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the president said and I quote if my
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name ever goes down into history it'll
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be for this act and my whole soul is in
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it my whole soul is in it
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today on this January day my whole soul
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is in this bringing America together
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uniting our people uniting our nation
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and I ask every American to join me in
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this
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cause uniting to fight the foes we Face
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anger resentment and hatred
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extremism
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lawlessness violence disease joblessness
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and
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hopelessness with unity we can do great
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things important
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things we can write wrongs we can put
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people to work in good jobs we can teach
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our children in safe schools we can
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overcome the deadly
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virus we can reward reward work and
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rebuild the middle class and make Health
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Care secure for all we can deliver
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racial Justice and we can make America
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once
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again the leading Force for good in the
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world I know speaking of
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unity can sound to some like a foolish
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fantasy these
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days I know the forces that divide us
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are deep and they are
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real but I also know they are not new
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our his has been a constant
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struggle between the American ideal that
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we're all are created equal and the
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harsh ugly reality that racism nativism
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fear
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demonization have long torn us
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apart the battle is
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perennial and victory is never
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assured through Civil War the Great
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Depression World War
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911 through struggles sacrifice and
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setbacks our better angels have always
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prevailed in each of these moments
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enough of us enough of us have come
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together to carry all of us
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forward and we can do that
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now history faith and reason show the
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way the way of unity
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we can see each other not as adversaries
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but as neighbors we can treat each other
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with dignity and
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respect we can join
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forces stop the shouting and lower the
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temperature for without Unity there is
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no peace only bitterness and fury no
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progress only exhausting
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outrage no Nation only a state of Chaos
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this is our historic moment of Crisis
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and
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Challenge and unity is the path
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forward and we must meet this moment as
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the United States of America if we do
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that I guarantee you we will not fail we
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have never ever ever ever failed in
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America we've acted
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together and so
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today at this time in this place let's
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start aresh all of us let's begin to
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listen to one another again hear one
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another see one another show respect to
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one
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another politics doesn't have to be a
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raging fire destroying everything in its
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path every disagreement doesn't have to
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be a cause for total
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war and we must reject the culture in
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which facts themselves are
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manipulated and even
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manufactured my fellow Americans we have
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to be different than this America has to
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be better than this and I believe
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America is so much better than this just
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look around
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here we stand in the shadow of the
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capital Dome as was mentioned earlier
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completed amid the Civil War when the
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union itself was literally hanging in
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the
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balance yet we
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endured we
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prevailed here we
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stand looking out on the Great
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Mall where Dr King spoke of his
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dream Here We Stand were 108 years ago
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at another inaugural thousands of
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protesters tried to block Brave women
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Marching for the right to
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vote and today we Mark the swearing into
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the first woman in American history
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elected to national office vice
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president of KLA Harris don't tell me
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things can't
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change Here We Stand across the pic from
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Arlington Cemetery where Heroes who gave
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the last full measure devotion rest in
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Eternal
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peace and here we
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stand just days after a rius mob thought
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they could use violence to silence the
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will of the people to stop the work of
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our democracy to drive us from this
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sacred
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ground it did not happen it will never
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happen not today not tomorrow not ever
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not
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ever all those who supported our
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campaign I'm humbled by the faith you've
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placed in us to all those who did not
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support us let me say
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this hear me out as we move forward take
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a measure of me and my
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heart if you still disag agree so be it
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that's
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democracy that's
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America the right to descent peaceably
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than the guard rails of our Republic is
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perhaps this nation's greatest
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strength yet hear me
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clearly disagreement must not lead to
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disunion and I pledge this to you I will
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be a president for all Americans all
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Americans
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and I promise you I will fight as hard
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for those who did not support me as for
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those who
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did many centuries
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ago St Augustine a saint of my
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church wrote that a people was a
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multitude defined by the common objects
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of their love defined by the common
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objects of their love what are the
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common objects We As Americans love that
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Define us As
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Americans I think we know
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opportunity
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security Liberty dignity respect
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honor and yes the
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truth recent weeks and months have
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taught us a painful lesson there is
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truth and there are
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lies lies toll for power and for
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profit and each of us has a duty and a
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responsibility as Citizens As Americans
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and especially as Leaders leaders who
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have pledged to honor our Constitution
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and protect our nation to defend the
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truth and defeat the
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lies look
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I
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understand that many of my fellow
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Americans view the
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future was fear and
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trepidation I understand they worry
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about their
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jobs I understand like my dad they lay a
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bed staring at the at night staring at
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the ceiling wondering can I keep my
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health care can I pay my
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mortgage thinking about their
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families about what comes next
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I promise you I get
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it but the answer is not to turn inward
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to retreat into competing
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factions distrusting those who don't
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look like look like you or worship the
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way you do or don't get their news from
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the same sources you
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do we must end this uncivil
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war the pits red against
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Blue rural versus earland or or rural
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versus Urban conservative versus
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liberal we can do this if we open our
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souls instead of hardening our hearts if
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we show a little tolerance and
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humility and if we're willing to stand
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in the other person's shoes as my mom
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would say just for a moment stand in
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their
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shoes because here's the thing about
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life there's no accounting for what fate
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will deal
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you some
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days when you need a
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hand there are other
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days when we're called to lend a
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hand that's how it has to be that's what
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we do for one another and if we are this
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way our country will be stronger more
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prosperous more ready for the future and
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we can still
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disagree my fellow Americans in the work
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ahead of us we're going to need each
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other we need all our strength to preser
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to
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persevere through this dark
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winter we're entering what may be the
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toughest and deadliest period of the
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virus we must set aside politics and
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finally face this pandemic as one nation
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yes one
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nation and I promise you
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this as the Bible says weeping may
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endure for a night but joy cometh in the
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morning we will get through this
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together
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together look
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folks all my colleagues I serve with in
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the house and the Senate up
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here we all understand
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understand the world is
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watching watching all of us
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today so here's my message to those
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beyond our
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borders America has been
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tested and we've come out stronger for
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it we will repair our alliances and
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engage with the world once
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again not to meet yesterday's challenges
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but today's and tomorrow's challenges
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and will
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lead not merely by the example of our
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power but by the power of our
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example will be a strong and trusted
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partner for peace progress and
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security look you all know we've been
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through so much in this
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nation and my first act as president
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president like to ask you to join me in
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a moment of Silent
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prayer remember all those who we lost in
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this past year to the Pandemic those
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400,000 fellow Americans moms dads
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husbands wives Sons daughters friends
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neighbors and
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co-workers we'll honor them but becoming
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the people and the nation we know we can
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and should be so I ask you let's say a
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silent prayer for those who've lost
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their lives and those left behind and
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for our
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country
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amen
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folks this is a time of
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testing we Face an Attack under
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democracy Y and untruth a raging
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virus growing
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inequity The Sting of systemic racism a
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climate and
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crisis America's rolling the world any
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one of these would be enough to
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challenge Us in profound ways but the
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fact is we Face them all at
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once presenting this nation with the one
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of the gravest responsibilities we've
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had now we're going to be tested are we
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going to step up all of us it's time for
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boldness for there's so much to
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do and this is
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certain I promise you we will be judged
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You and I by how we resolve these
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cascading crises of our
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era we will rise to the occasion is the
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question will we
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Master this rare and difficult hour will
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we meet our obligations and pass along a
20:04
new and better world to our
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children I believe we must I'm sure you
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do as well I believe we will and when we
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do we'll write the next great chapter in
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The History of the United States of
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America the American story a
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story that might sound something like a
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song that means a lot to
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me is called American
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Anthem there's one verse that stands out
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at least for me and it goes like
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this the work and prayers of century
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have brought us to this
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day what shall be our Legacy what will
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our children
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say let me know in my heart when my days
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are through America America I gave my
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best to you
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you let's add Let's us add our own work
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and prayers to the unfolding story of
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our great nation if we do
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this then when our days are through our
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children and our children's children
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will save us they gave their
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best they did their
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Duty they healed the broken
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land my fellow Americans I close the day
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where I began with the sacred oath
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before God and all of you I give you my
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word I will always level with
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you I will defend the
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Constitution I'll defend our
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democracy I'll defend
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America and will give all all of you
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keep everything you I do in your service
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thinking not of power but of
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possibilities not of personal interest
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but the public good and together we
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shall write an American story of hope
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not fear of unity not division of light
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not Darkness a story of decency and
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dignity love and
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healing greatness and
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goodness may this be the story that
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guides us the story that inspires us and
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the story
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that tells ages yet to come that we
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answer the call of History we met the
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moment democracy and hope truth and
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Justice did not die in our watch but
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Thrive that America secured Liberty at
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home and stood once again as a beacon to
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the
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world that is what we owe our
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forebearers one another and generation
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to follow so
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with purpose and
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resolve we turn to those tasks of our
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time sustained by faith driven by
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conviction and devoted to one another
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and the country we love with all our
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hearts may God bless America and may God
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protect our troops thank you America
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