evening —— and i quote his:
'god takes pity on kindergartners,
less so on the schoolchildren,
and will no longer pity their elders,
leaving them to their own,
and sometimes they will have to crawl on all fours,
through the burning sand,
to reach the casualty station,
bleeding.'
for decades, god has not taken pity on the kindergartners in the middle east, or the schoolchildren, or their elders. there has been no pity in the middle east for generations.
ladies and gentlemen,
i was a young man who has now grown fully in years. and of all the memories i have stored up in my seventy-two years, i now recall the hopes.
our people have chosen us to give them life. terrible as it is to say, their lives are in our hands. tonight, their eyes are upon us and their hearts are asking: how is the power vested in these men and women being used? what will they decide? into what kind of morning will we rise tomorrow? a day of peace? of war? of laughter? of tears?
a child is born in an utterly undemocratic way. he cannot choose his father and mother. he cannot pick his sex or color, his religion, nationality or homeland. whether he is born in a manor or a manger, whether he lives under a despotic or democratic regime is not his choice. from the moment he comes, close-fisted, into the world, his fate —— to a large extent —— is decided by his nation's leaders. it is th
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