For those of you who want to watch or read Barack Obama's acceptance speech, the New York Times has an interactive feature where you can watch, read and jump to any portion of it (free subscription required). At the end, he reached back to Martin Luther King's speech at the march on Washington DC 45 years ago:
The
men and women who gathered there could've heard many things. They
could've heard words of anger and discord. They could've been told to
succumb to the fear and frustrations of so many dreams deferred.
But
what the people heard instead -- people of every creed and color, from
every walk of life -- is that, in America, our destiny is inextricably
linked, that together our dreams can be one.
"We
cannot walk alone," the preacher cried. "And as we walk, we must make
the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back."
America,
we cannot turn back... not with so much work to be done; not with so
many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for; not with an
economy to fix, and cities to rebuild, and farms to save; not with so
many families to protect and so many lives to mend.
America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone.
At
this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into
the future. Let us keep that promise, that American promise, and in the
words of scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we
confess.
Just the transcript is at NYT as well.
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