We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.
If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves.
I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.
If you believe you're a nation, then I accept you as a nation.
We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.
To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.
The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
And that is that we have never been: a nation of haves and have-nots. We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves, of people who have made it and people who will make it. And that's who we need to remain.