Deval Patrick: Just Words Speech 10/15/06
15 October 2006 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
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I will not engage in the politics of fear. Because fear is poisonous. All through history it has been used to hold back progress and limit fairness. Only hope defeats fear. It always has. At a candidates forum last week, the moderator asked each of us to say something nice about the other candidates. Kerry Healey rather grudgingly said, Well, he can give a good speech. She would know this not because she has ever attended a speech of mine but because she has them filmed by this fine fellow here. But her dismissive point, and I hear it from her staff, is that all I have to offer is words.
Just words.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Just words. We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Just words.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
Just words.
I have a dream.
Just words.
Let me say it before you do: I am no Dr. King, no President Kennedy, no FDR, no Thomas Jefferson. But I do know that the right words, spoken from the heart with conviction, with a vision of a better place and a faith in the unseen, are a call to action.
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I attended one of the grass roots meetings being held accross massachusetts by the Duval-transition team. The Worcester Art Museum was packed with people who wanted to speak about the Creative Economy Plan and strategy for funding of cutural programs accross the state.
Clearly there’s an energy and a force that will be gaining momentum now that those underserved creative programs and groups of artistic types have a model to latch onto. As well as hard core numbers which suggest that 16 billions dallars flow through this economy from all sorts of creative endevours.