○  1984 vice presidential nomination acceptance address  ○

have already earned. social security is a contract between the last generation and the next, and the rules say: you don't break contracts.

we are going to keep faith with older americans. we hammered out a fair compromise in the congress to save social security. every group sacrificed to keep the system sound. it is time ronald reagan stopped scaring our senior citizens.

it isn't right that young couples question whether to bring children into a world of 50,000 nuclear warheads. that isn't the vision for which americans have struggled for more than two centuries. and our future doesn't have to be that way. change is in the air, just as surely as when john kennedy beckoned america to a new frontier; when sally ride rocketed into space; and when reverend jesse jackson ran for the office of president of the united states.

by choosing a woman to run for our nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all americans: there are no doors we cannot unlock. we will place no limits on achievement. if we can do this, we can do anything.

tonight, we reclaim our dream. we are going to make the rules of american life work fairly for all americans again. to an administration that would have us debate all over again whether the voting rights act should be renewed and whether segregated schools should be tax exempt, we say, mr. president: those debates are over. on the issue of civil rights, voting rights, and affirmative action for minorities, we must not go backwards. we must -- and we will -- move forward to open the doors of opportunity.

to those who understand that our country cannot prosper unless we draw on the talents of all americans, we say: we will pass the equal rights amendment.

the issue is not what america can do for women, but what women can do for america.

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