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DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
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My administration will work in partnership with business and professional leaders, trade unionists, environmentalists, representatives of state and local government and other skilled practitioners of our own democratic life. We will enlist the untapped skills of the many immigrants and their descendants in cities like Milwaukee, Chicago and Cleveland, who came to our shores to escape oppression and to build America, to help build democracies in the countries from which they came. (Applause)
One of the most effective things we can do in international affairs is what is called public diplomacy. This covers a multitude of our government's activities, such as radio broadcasting that allows us to speak to people of foreign lands directly. When Lech Walesa was asked if Radio Free Europe gave birth to the Solidarity movement he said, "Would there be an earth without the sun?" We should build on the success of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty and expand our successful surrogate broadcasting by bringing news and information to the despotisms that remain in Asia, in China, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea and Burma.
(Applause)
The President's opposition to Asian Democracy Radio is further evidence that he still thinks it's more important to talk to dictators than to their oppressed subjects.
Finally, building democracy is not a job for America alone. will strengthen the United Nations and seek more support from our democratic allies in Europe and Japan in strengthening the world's
We all have a stake in the democratic revolution.
new democracies.
(Applause)
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America's purpose in the world is not simply to be another great power in history. As the flow of resources, and information and people's causes and people cause this whole world to shrink, have a particular contribution to make to the march of human progress. It calls on us to set an example of how a nation of many peoples can harvest strength from diversity. It calls on us to give back to a contentious world some of the lessons we have learned during our own democratic voyage. It calls on us also, my fellow Americans, to deal with the increasing racial and ethnic tensions here at home in a spirit of humility and generosity, reaching out to one another and binding up our own nation's wounds. (Applause)
For we have learned here in America and we relearn every day that democracy is not always easy and tidy. We have learned that it is
a process of trial and error, that it suffers from all the imperfections known to humankind. But it is also the only system we know that can produce wisdom out of disagreement and peace out of our warring (desires ?). America's powers and prosperity and sense of justice may be providential, but they are not accidental for those blessings flow from the world's greatest peaceful experiment in
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