“Now let me quote an Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, who wrote the poem The Cure at Troy. I believe this to the core of my being, HISTORY SAYS DON’T HOPE ON THIS SIDE OF THE GRAVE, BUT ONCE IN A LIFETIME, THE LONGED-FOR TIDAL WAVE OF JUSTICE RISES UP, AND HOPE AND HISTORY RHYME. We can make hope and history rhyme because of what we’ve seen. There’s nothing we can’t do. This is about the future, not about the past, it’s about our children and grand children, it’s about leading this country and leading the world once again. Folks we just have to remember who we are, my Lord, this is the United States of America! It’s time for America to get back up and once again fight for the proposition that we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. We say it so often in school that we forget how profound it is. We have never lived up to those words, but until this President, we have never walked away from them. I believe this with every fiber of my being. It’s who we are.” -Joe Biden