Tomorrow we celebrate the inauguration of a new president. The day will be the fulfillment of the promises of the Declaration of Independence ... all men are created equal ... and those of JFK, MLK, and RFK, martyrs of generations past. A day which blacks, brown, yellow and white have waited for, a day Civil Rights workers in the '60s have marched for, a day the activist folk singers of the '60s sang about ... the promise of freedom and equality for all.
The weight of the world and the times will fall on the shoulders of one man and the family who will share him with us for the next four years. A man who has already decided to look forward and not back. To not place blame for the sins of the past, to launch no punishing investigations, to honour his political foes, to renew old ties and establish new. A man of integrity ... we have waited so long.
I wonder how the job will change him and his values. I wonder what the next four years will bring, how his performance will impact us. And tonight I pray for us all ...
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