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John Kerry
Related: About this forumKerry speech on South Sudan given in December
It is an interesting call to move beyond the anger and disputes and create a prosperous country. In it, he cites the Winthrop speech in a very different way than Reagan or Romney have. They spoke of it almost as bragging, he speaks of it as living up to high expectations on how they should live.
n 1630, my great-grandfather many times over led a journey across the ocean, fleeing persecution. And he gave a sermon on the deck of the Arabella that has been invoked by leaders as different as President Kennedy and President Reagan. John Winthrop talked about what it meant to be a City upon a hillthe eyes of all people are upon us. He knew that a historic moment had to be met with historic resolve because the world was watching.
Well today, all the eyes of the world are on South Sudan. The world is watching to see if this new nation will fall into the all-too-common sectarian conflict and corruption that some say is inevitable, or whether you can meet the loftier challenge of history and the dictate of your own aspirationswhether you will affirm your long struggle by making an even longer commitment to get to that better place.
Yeats wrote about those hinge points of human events when we can, as he said, make hope and history rhyme. This is your nation, but this is the worlds opportunity to match your hopes for all of historyand together we can stand together and make sure that what you do at this moment stands the test of history.
http://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/chair/release/senator-kerry-delivers-a-speech-on-the-situation-in-south-sudan
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Kerry speech on South Sudan given in December (Original Post)
karynnj
Feb 2012
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JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)1. Good speech!
He would have made a very good President! *sigh*
Julie
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)2. Yes, he would have!
karynnj
(59,923 posts)3. Yes he would have
I think the years would have been incredibly tough - as there was so much bad already not stoppable, but he would have worked as honestly and well as he could.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)4. Thanks for posting
Great speech.