Saturday, December 23, 2006

We are all the same.

Wesley Clark

I hope he runs again. Can you imagine a Republican saying something like this?

The final frontier is perhaps the most difficult, but it's also the most important — and that's the frontier of the human spirit. For too long, people have allowed differences on the surface — differences of color, ethnicity, and gender — to tear apart the common bonds they share. And the human spirit suffers as a result.

Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations.

-- Wesley Clark

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:22 PM

    What speech or writing was that quote from? I'd like to share it.

    Thanks

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  2. It's from a speech made in Manchester, NH on January 10, 2004 called "Twenty Year Vision For America". You can find the full text right here:

    http://www.clark04.com/speeches/027/

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