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The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

Everyone has to do their part, too. No one is disconnected. And everyone has to improve their skills, take care of their own health to the extent they can and contribute their time and talents to the community and country.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future.