Richard Blanco — How to Love a Country
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Were the Dead. Were the Living.
We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honour. In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for regrets. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A widow's fifty cents in a collection plate and a golfer's ten thousand dollar pledge for the cure are self evident. Were the good morning of a bus driver who remembers our name,. The tattooed man who gives up his seat on a subway where every door held open like a smile. When we look into eachOther's eyes, the way we behold the moon. We hold these truths to be self evident.
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