The Power of One: Glenn Beck Speech
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Summary
In our nation's desperate hour, perhaps it's most desperate hour you must know who you are and why you fight. You must reinforce your own foundation and work with others to shore up the foundations of themselves and their nation so these foundations can stand for generations to come.
Transcript
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we all feel it we feel the foundations cracking the foundations of our country some some of the
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erosion is just the inevitable settling that happens to any foundation especially when apathy
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keeps us from maintaining it some may even be from gaps in the original stonework but the purposeful
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dismantling of our nation's foundation is causing our nation to crumble around us and we're more
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divided than we've ever been and on both sides we're mad as hell one side wants to pull the
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republic down and change it to the other says not on my watch when we see what's happening
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we feel angry i mean you should feel angry i want to fight i'm guessing you want to fight
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in a few minutes i'm going to give you a way to fight to begin that long journey
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but first we must recognize why we're fighting you want to fight because you see injustice in the
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world you see hate and lies winning winning in our schools winning in our churches winning in our
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children we want to crush the chaos stamp it out with our foot and it's really easy to misdirect
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our anger pointed at everyone at every institution every system every politician every journalist
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every single person on twitter and facebook because we feel they deserve it
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and the world is just so messed up and i have a right to be angry don't i
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but before you act in your anger ask yourself this question
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because just like pain pain tells your body hey don't do that again
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anger is there for a reason as well so what is the anger here to teach me
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anger like sadness comes from somewhere deep inside of us and sometimes we don't even know
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do i allow an anger that i don't understand to tell me what to do
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imagine because it is that powerful you can use it to launch a rocket into space
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there's lots of people that will tell you to blow everything up and i implore you
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even on the days that it's really completely justified just don't blow everything up
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so what is it that you've lost what is the foundation that is being pulled out from underneath us
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can you use this feeling inside of you to fix the problem that's making you so angry
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something that your anger is trying to tell you about
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fighting or worse yet denying the demons that live inside all of us
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we have to find inside ourselves the true empathy
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to see the pain that those who are so misguided and angry
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it's going to be hard but we have to find ourselves being a true reflection
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and work with others to shore up the foundations of
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so these foundations can stand for generations to come
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it is the direction that many if not most Americans want to travel in
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they just need to be reminded what it feels like
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or in Miami on one of the hottest days in this last August
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you can't give free air conditioners to the poor
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it's why they told us we couldn't rescue those in Afghanistan
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that open heart that still remains on the outskirts of the mob
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or who the world tells us we're supposed to hate
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one of the most well-remembered Soviet dissidents
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but he saw when observing the people at the gulag
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others rose in the ranks to become the camp masters
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we speak privately with the conviction of patriots
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and then return to the work of our everyday lives
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perhaps we'll be well liked by the ruling class
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we don't fear the chemical castration of our children
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we're more afraid of losing our internet privileges