1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: I'd like to talk about something we share in common. 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: The United States of America, our country. All of us 3 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: who are Americans belong to it as she belongs to 4 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: all of us. The most important statement written on paper, 5 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: conceived in the mind of a human being as a 6 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: declarative political statement, was this revolutionary assertion that broke open 7 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: a new age, a new epoch in human dignity and freedom. 8 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: Here are the words, All men are created equal and 9 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: a now by their creator, with certain inalienable rights, which 10 00:00:54,720 --> 00:01:00,080 Speaker 1: include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These the 11 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: words were a rupture in history, and they lit the world. 12 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 2: In time. 13 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: The dignity of the human being, innate, God given, could 14 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 1: not be contained, and so this concept spread and it 15 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: included more and more people. Martin Luther King an American 16 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: founder who redeemed the American ideal when he marched to 17 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: Washington under the American flag and stood in the shadow 18 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: of Abraham Lincoln's temple, where above Lincoln these words are 19 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: carved in this temple, as in the hearts of his countrymen, 20 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: for whom he saved the Union. The memory of Abraham 21 00:01:55,440 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: Lincoln is enshrined forever. King looked out at a crowd 22 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: of hundreds of thousands, and he declared that he had 23 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: come to collect a promisory note. The United States of 24 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 1: America is the only nation in the world founded on 25 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 1: the power of an idea. 26 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 2: The idea is what I just said. 27 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: It's the only country in the world made up of 28 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: all the peoples of the world where every language is 29 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: spoken every day. At the foundation of American life, at 30 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: the core of how our society functions, is an election 31 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: where the citizen chooses, through participation, who shall temporarily lead 32 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: the country, who will go to the Congress and assemble 33 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: and work with Americans from diverse backgrounds, diverse geographies to 34 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: strengthen the union, to make it more perfect. The polling 35 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: today that has been released is deeply troubling and it's 36 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: very frightening. One quarter of the country and hire in 37 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: some other polls, believe it is appropriate to solve political 38 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: differences with violence. Violence In the United States of America 39 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: a country that had a civil war that was one 40 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: of the bloodiest in history. We call that a civil war, 41 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: but it really wasn't. It was a sectional war between 42 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:43,119 Speaker 1: the Free States and the Slave States. There's too much 43 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: talk of sectional conflict in this country by leading politicians, 44 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: by irresponsible men like Greg Abbott, who speculate that his state, 45 00:03:54,480 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: Texas should secede. Everywhere there is loose talk by or 46 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: so we thought, people elected to serious positions of responsibility 47 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: using the language of war in Mayhem. In America, we 48 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: practice democracy. Elections are a good thing, a necessary thing. 49 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,679 Speaker 1: There is no other place in the world where someone 50 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: can go to a state like New Hampshire and say 51 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: I'm going to challenge the most powerful person in the 52 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: world for my party's nomination and have a chance at 53 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: achieving it. There's nothing wrong with saying I have an 54 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: idea and I want to put it into the public square. 55 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: I want to have a debate, I want to participate, 56 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 1: I want to have a say, and I want the 57 00:04:55,720 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 1: people to have a say, the chance to organize, to 58 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 1: make a difference, to make our society better. 59 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 2: But everywhere, curiously. 60 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: Even amongst the people who say that they are practitioners 61 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: of democracy, there seems to be an inherent distrust of elections. 62 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with elections. They're important, Competition is important. 63 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: A vast majority of the country right now is saying 64 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: they don't want to see a rematch between Donald Trump 65 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 1: and President Biden. At the end of the day, the 66 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: American people, not the political parties, not the elected officials, 67 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: run the country. 68 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 2: That's how it's set up. That's what must be preserved. 69 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 2: Think about it. Do you really want. 70 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 1: To live in a country where you see half the 71 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: people as its enemies and a quarter of our citizens 72 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: are ready to shoot someone because they disagree politically? What 73 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: will you do to stop this madness? To stop this insanity, 74 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: because it must be stopped with normalcy and decency and 75 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: goodness and something else, patriotism. It's time to put the 76 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: country first, ahead of the political parties, ahead of egos, 77 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: ahead of everything, because the country is where our children 78 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:42,160 Speaker 1: and their grandchildren and our descendants will live. Will they 79 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: look back at our generation with disdain, rage and hatred 80 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: for the misery that they live their lives under. Or 81 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: will they be grateful that we measured up and we 82 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: met the challenges of our time and our death. And 83 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: those are the obligations of citizenship, which is necessary in 84 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: a free society, because freedom is a nonsense word, a 85 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: nonsense word if obligation and responsibility are not attached to it. 86 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: The United States of America requires service. It requires obligation, 87 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: It requires responsibility and a sense of duty among its 88 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: people to make it better. This is a time in 89 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: America where all of us have a role to play. 90 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: What will yours be? It can be an important one. 91 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: Run for office, get involved, stand up, Stand up for 92 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: your rights because there's a lot of people out there 93 00:07:51,040 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: who'd be happy to take them from you.