I mentioned my parents and their experiences in the Holocaust - "Dancing with the Devil."

You don't throw meat to a tiger, hoping this selfless act will induce him to become a vegetarian.

Paul Starr is almost my age and he should know better, splitting the difference the the radical right is like Achilles chasing the tortoise.

I am fortunate enough to remember John F. Kennedy as more than an assassinated President Kennedy when he declared in his [url=http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/divine5e/medialib/timeline/docs/sources/theme_primarysources_Politics_29.html]inaugural address.[/url] in [url=http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ra_archive/speech_158.ram] mp3[/url]

We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans-born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a cold and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage-and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today
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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith and the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it-and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

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I am old enough to remember Martin Luther King [url=http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm]say,[/url] in [url=http://www.americanrhetoric.com/mp3clips/politicalspeeches/mlkihaveadreamgo1a.mp3]mp3[/url]

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

The forces of progress won, because as in the film, "Nixon," the reason we cried for them when they died was "they made us see the stars."

Starr, look in the sky!

Matsu