We can rekindle it. Or we can let it flicker and die.
It's up to you. It's up to us.
Courage,
"I went to sleep with the hope that made
America famous.
I had the kind of a dream that maybe they're
still trying to teach in school.
Of the America that made America famous.
And of the people who just might understand,
That how, together, yes we can,
Create a country better than,
The one we have made of this land.
We have a choice to make each man
Who dares to dream, reaching out his hand,
A prophet.
Or just a crazy, damned dreamer of a fool.
Yes a crazy fool.
There's something burning somewhere.
Does anybody care?
Is anybody there?
Is anybody there?"
- Harry Chapin, "What Made America Famous" (1974).
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