History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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It's a bleak morning for me and for many people and yet it's a great morning because we have a chance to look at her and see what she did and who she was. It's bleak because I can't - many of us can't hear her sweet voice but it's great because she did live, and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians, Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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