'America Can Be Better Tomorrow': Wes Moore Promotes Message Of Positivity At SC Dem Party Event

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At a South Carolina Democratic Party event on Saturday, Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) spoke about the future of the United States.

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00:00And anybody who is talking about 2028 doesn't understand the urgency of 2025.

00:11Doesn't understand the assaults that we are under right now.

00:17These are serious times.

00:20And we have a bunch of unserious people

00:23who are making these decisions and making life harder for our families.

00:32Making it difficult for us to build legacies.

00:37Making it more challenging to say that we understand the assignment of now.

00:43But we have to remember,

00:46these are not the times for us to feel powerless.

00:49These are times for us to understand our power.

00:53We stand on the shoulders of those who saw injustice

01:01and were still impatient for change.

01:05And knew that they would be the ones to lead the charge.

01:10We stand on the shoulders of people like Mary McLeod Bethune,

01:15who was born in Maysville,

01:19founded the National Council of Negro Women,

01:21three decades before the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

01:28We stand on the shoulders of people like Robert Smalls.

01:32Born into slavery in Buford,

01:35but escaped to his freedom.

01:38And after a civil war,

01:40he represented the people of South Carolina

01:43in the United States Congress.

01:50We stand on the shoulders of another son of the Palmetto State.

01:57My grandfather.

02:00Reverend Dr. James Joshua Thomas,

02:03who had a deep Jamaican accent his entire life,

02:11but had South Carolina grit all through his bones.

02:18A deep Jamaican accent his entire life,

02:22but maybe was the most patriotic American that I've ever met.

02:25He loved this country.

02:35He loved this country not because he was ignorant

02:38of this country's complicated past.

02:41In fact, it's the opposite.

02:43He was born into this country's complicated past.

02:47But he loved this country because

02:51of what it represented.

02:56A hope for a better future.

03:00He knew that America was the most unique experiment

03:03in the history of the world.

03:05And that promise

03:07was worth protecting.

03:12And just before I deployed for Afghanistan

03:14with the 82nd,

03:17yeah, oh, airborne.

03:21My grandfather gave me a Bible.

03:23And y'all know it's one of those, you know,

03:24little Bibles, just the New Testament in it.

03:26Little ones, green copy.

03:28So if it literally was small enough,

03:30it fit right in my flak vest.

03:31And I put it in my flak vests

03:32before I went on every mission.

03:33And on the front cover,

03:37he wrote an inscription.

03:40And it just simply said,

03:42Have faith, not fear.

03:45And I used to recite that

03:47before I went on every mission.

03:49Have faith, not fear.

03:50Have faith, not fear.

03:51Have faith, not fear.

03:52I might have recited before I got up here

03:53to give this speech.

03:57But my grandfather also understood something too.

04:00That while he wrote faith, not fear

04:02in the front of that Bible,

04:03he also understood that as the Bible says,

04:05that faith without work is dead.

04:13Have faith, not fear.

04:15But faith without work is dead.

04:18So, all my friends,

04:21if you share the same optimism that I feel,

04:25if you share the same aspirations that I know,

04:29if you know in your heart

04:31that America can be better tomorrow

04:33than it is today,

04:34then let us refuse to be the party

04:36that is governed by fear,

04:38and let us have faith

04:39that our cause is just

04:40and that our vision is true.

04:43And then let us turn around

04:45and turn that faith into action.

04:48Let those actions be our legacy.

04:50And let that legacy be those

04:52that our children will know

04:54that we understood the assignment.

04:56Not tomorrow, not next week,

04:58but right here and right now.

05:00It is with that action

05:02that we will lead.

05:04It is with that action

05:05that we will win.

05:06With God as our protector.

05:08With God as our protector.

05:14With the wind at our back.

05:17And knowing that there is no weapon

05:20that is formed against us

05:21that shall prosper.

05:25Let us strive boldly into a future

05:28that those who came before us hope for

05:31and those who come after us

05:32that they deserve.

05:34So God bless you.

05:35Thank you so much.

05:36And let's leave no one behind.

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