Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
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As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years.
One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.
So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.
As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
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