Create a New Voice, America
It must be a
common voice, not just the rare voice.
It must be
one voice, trumpeting the truths of American ideals.
Freedom is
the base tone of musical timing that guides our march into America’s future.
If not
freedom, America represents nothing, since each breath committed to its
undertaking as a united people, continues. It pumps through our lungs as we
give breath to its precepts, ideals and dreams.
We are not
helpless, we are not lost, we are not inconvenient, nor unworthy.
We take up
issue with all things righteous in building on the structure of freedom and
truth.
“Find
the good and praise it” –Alex Haley
In praise of
our united collaboration, we weave our destinies with the promise of beautiful freedom,
not only for ourselves, but for our children and our entire progeny. As
Americans, who are we more than those who take on the torch of our founders and
who pass it along to our generations forward.
Like a ship
that has survived and learned from peaceful and turbulent waters, we direct
today’s journey on the longer road. In peaceful days we flourish with
innovative discovery. In turbulent days we keep our sights on the prize to draw
us forward.
Freedom. Our
strength comes from within, resonating with the wish, the hope, the witness and
the promise of freedom. With each actuality of freedom, we move toward an
encompassing freedom that leaves no one out.
We do indeed bear witness to the enduring strength of our Consitution
and offer allegiance to the promise that all men are created equal.
We
are endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights: life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness
Newly
re-elected President Barack H. Obama spoke about how these self-evident rights
must be self-executed and secured by the people on earth. All people are the Creator’s
people on earth, which means all of us in America and indeed on Earth. For if
not His, than whose?
Given that
we declare to be a nation of the people, by the people and for the people, we
must work together to secure the blessings of liberty. We keep it safe by not
looking away, but watching it jealously as a reason to value ourselves as a
people. We take the steps in the continued
forming of ourselves taking steps toward those moments when there is Liberty and Justice for All.
This is what
Freedom Looks Like
We guide
ourselves, under our chosen leadership, to seize the freedoms guaranteed by
living them, defending them, teaching about them, and redefining the better
expressions among a united people. We are dynamic and our Freedoms are dynamic.
We are equal
in the eyes of the Almighty and by our faith in Him, we embrace His faith in us
to be free. We execute our freedoms among ourselves because there is no one
else who can. Or will. Or should.
I urge this
reader to take up the standard of freedom and invest in America’s people, the
strength of her leadership and the everlasting promise of freedom to all our
posterity, to help us withstand the storms that time yet holds for us, and to
share the life of freedom in peace. I stand with President Obama in his
movements towards these ends. I stand in this voice and speak its freedoms.
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