Whoever wrote the close to the State of the Union speech did a terrific job, I thought:
"Lincoln could have accepted peace at the cost of disunity and continued slavery. Martin Luther King could have stopped at Birmingham or at Selma, and achieved only half a victory over segregation. The United States could have accepted the permanent division of Europe, and been complicit in the oppression of others.
"Today, having come far in our own historical journey, we must decide: Will we turn back, or finish well?
"Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage. Like Americans before us, we will show that courage and we will finish well."
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