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I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.
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Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.
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The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.
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We must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations.
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America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.
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We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments.