It takes sometimes a divining rod to find out what it is. but when found * the results are extraordinary." We know from history and the events of our own lives that idealism is a real and present thing in our society. Where else but In America would anyone dream up an idea as outlandish. and as outlandishly successful. as the Peace Corps? Where else but in America would we find a President inviting. as Franklin Roosevelt did. the Daughters of the American Revolution to think of themselves as immigrants? Where else but in America could there have been the great civil rights movement. that mighty and cresting wave of equality and dignity. that expressed itself in words of idealism and faith that no one could ever forget: "We shall overcome. we shall overcome. I do believe. "We shall overcome some day." Nowhere but in America could you find that kind of movement. born in faith. nourished by optimism. and fueled by pure idealism. crystallized in those words.
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