want the legitimate popular government defined by Thomas Jefferson. We should be prepared to defend it with all the tenacity and eloquence of Winston Churchill. We want a national community in which we take the same pride as Jawaharlal Nehru took in the midnight’s children of Indian independence. We want the recognition of the equal moral worth of all individuals that Martin Luther King expressed so beautifully, and we want, like Elie Wiesel, to live a life in the presence of hope. For all their manifold differences, and the terrible beauty of their rhetoric, the revolutionary cases of
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