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When my father, President Kennedy, talked of a new frontier, he was not
speaking of a set of promises but a set of challenges; challenges of the
mind and heart and spirit, the challenge of giving of ourselves, of
giving to our country.
Somebody else's government is not what we want. If we believe in civil
rights and human rights and closing the racial divide, then it is up to
us. If we believe in clean air and clean water, then it is up to us. If
we want a Supreme Court that will protect the freedoms in the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights, including the right to privacy,
that will keep our personal, financial and medical information from
being up for grabs and will guarantee the right to make our own
reproductive decisions, then it is up to us. If we believe that we have
seen enough gun violence in our land and in our lifetimes, that guns
should no longer take the lives of those we love, then it is up to us.
We can make the world new again if only we try.
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