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The question to have across your mind, at such a moment, always crosses mine anyway, you do want that tomorrow? [[laughter]]

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No, no.

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The virility and vitality I was trying to talk about before, which I heard in that music, when I said, that is all that can save this country now.

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It was a kind of energy, which allows you, which in fact forces you,

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to examine everything, to take nothing for granted.

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To understand that because this has been done this way for 200 years, does not mean that it has to be done this way for the next 5 minutes.

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To understand that if, this is intolerable, if, for example,

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you don't think you can work within the Democratic party, then you haven't got to.

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That there are other ways of working, you can think of other things.

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It is a vitality in short, which allows you to believe, and to act on the belief

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that it is your country, and your responsibility to your country, is to free it.

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In order to free it, you have to change it.

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And we've had to do that.

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Americans until today and it's a frightening thing to think.

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The youngest country, we like to say. The richest country, we like to say and the strongest country, we like to say.

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And yet, the very notion, of change, real change, throws all Americans into a panic and they probably look for another label to get rid of this dissenter.

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A country which is supposedly built on dissent,

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built on the value of the individual, now distrust dissent

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at least as much any totalitarian government can

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and debases the individual, in as many ways as it knows how because it's placed something above him,

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and what it's placed above him is safety

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