○  名人演讲：a tale of two cities  ○

nd, we can deal with the deficit intelligently, by shared sacrifice, with all parts of the nation's family contributing, building partnerships with the private sector, providing a sound defense without depriving ourselves of what we need to feed our children and care for our people.

we can have a future that provides for all the young of the present, by  marrying common sense and compassion. we know we can, because we did it for nearly 50 years before 1980.

and we can do it again. if we do not forget. if we do not forget that this entire nation has profited by these progressive principles. that they helped lift up generations to the middle class and higher: gave us a chance to work, to go to college, to raise a family, to own a house, to be secure in our old age and, before that, to reach heights that our own parents would not have dared dream of.

that struggle to live with dignity is the real story of the shining city. and it's a story, ladies and gentlemen, that i didn't read in a book, or learn in a classroom. i saw it, and lived it. like many of you. i watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. i saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all i needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. i learned about our kind of democracy from my father. and, i learned about our obligation to each other from him and from my mother. they asked only for a chance to work and to make the world better for their children and they asked to be protected in those moments when they would not be able to protect themselves. this nation and this nation's government did that for them.

and that they were able to build a family and live in dignity and see one of their children go from behind their little grocery store in south jamaica on the other side of the tracks where he was born, to occ

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