○  ich bin ein berliner (i am a berliner)  ○

you live in a defended island of freedom, but your life is part of the main. so let me ask you, as i close, to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, to the hopes of tomorrow, beyond the freedom merely of this city of berlin, or your country of germany, to the advance of freedom everywhere, beyond the wall to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind.

freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. when all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great continent of europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. when that day finally comes, as it will, the people of west berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades.

all free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of berlin.

and, therefore, as a free man, i take pride in the words "ich bin ein berliner." 

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