Remembering George McGovern

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4. Come home, America!

Still among the most moving lines - from McGovern's acceptance speech in 1972:

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From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America

From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America.

From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism;
from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor;
from the prejudice based on race and sex;
from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick -- come home, America.

Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward.

Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world, and let us be joyful in that homecoming,

for this “is your land, this land is my land -- from California to New York island, from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters -- this land was made for you and me.”
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