○ 名人演讲：a tale of two cities ○
we must win this case on the merits. we must get the american public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship - to reality, to the hard substance of things. and we will do that not so much with speeches that sound good as with speeches that are good and sound. not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses. we must make the american people hear our "tale of two cities." we must convince them that we don't have to settle for two cities, that we can have one city, indivisible, shining for all of its people.
now we will have no chance to do that if what comes out of this convention is a babel of arguing voices. if that's what's heard throughout the campaign - dissident voices from all sides - we will have no chance to tell our message. to succeed we will have to surrender small parts of our individual interests, to build a platform we can all stand on, at once, comfortably - proudly singing out the truth for the nation to hear, in chorus, its logic so clear and commanding that no slick commercial, no amount of geniality, no martial music will be able to muffle the sound of the truth. we democrats must unite.
we democrats must unite so that the entire nation can unite because surely the republicans won't bring this country together. their policies divide the nation - into the lucky and the left-out, into the royalty and the rabble. the republicans are willing to treat that division as victory. they would cut this nation in half, into those temporarily better off and those worse off than before, and they would call that division recovery.
we should not, we should not be embarrassed or dismayed or chagrined if the process of unifying is difficult, even wrenching at times. remember that, unl
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