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Oration Because of What We Are of What Wee Beleive

This document is the text of an oration about unity, justice, liberty, and faith in democracy and freedom. It discusses how in a wealthy nation, no one should live in poverty; in a fertile land, no children should go hungry; and in a place of healing, no one should suffer untreated. It rejects reopening old wounds and hatreds, and calls for achieving change through reason and action instead of differences. It expresses that our nation's success relies not on what we have but what we believe in and our faith in justice, liberty, and union.

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Oration Because of What We Are of What Wee Beleive

This document is the text of an oration about unity, justice, liberty, and faith in democracy and freedom. It discusses how in a wealthy nation, no one should live in poverty; in a fertile land, no children should go hungry; and in a place of healing, no one should suffer untreated. It rejects reopening old wounds and hatreds, and calls for achieving change through reason and action instead of differences. It expresses that our nation's success relies not on what we have but what we believe in and our faith in justice, liberty, and union.

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ORATION CONTEST

ZACHARY B. VILLACORTES

GRADE- 5 PIANO
For every generation, there is a destiny.  For
some, history decides.   For this generation, the choice
must be our own. Our destiny in the midst of change will
rest on the changed character of our people and on their
faith. In a land of great wealth, families must not live in
hopeless poverty. In a land rich in harvest, children must
not be hungry. In a land of healing miracles, neighbors
must not suffer and die untended. In a great land of
learning and scholars, young people must be taught to
read and write. How incredible it is that in this fragile
existence, we should hate and destroy one another.  There
are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery;
others to pursue mastery over nature.  There is world
enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.
We have discovered that every child who learns, and
every man who finds work, and every sick body that is
made whole – like a candle added to an altar – brightens
the hope of all the faithful. So let us reject any among us,
who seek to reopen old wounds, and rekindle old hatreds. 
They stand in the way of a seeking nation. Let us join
reason to faith and action to experience, to transform our
unity of interest into a unity of purpose.  To achieve
change without hatred; not without difference of opinion
but without the deep and abiding divisions which scar the
union for generations. Under the covenant of justice,
liberty and union, we have become a nation.  And we
have kept our freedom. It is the excitement of becoming –
always becoming, trying, probing, resting, and trying
again but always gaining. If we fail now, then we will
have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship;
that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more that
it gives. If we succeeded, it will not be because of what
we have, but it will be because of what we are; not
because of what we own, but rather because of what we
believe. For we are a nation of believers.  Underneath the
clamor of buildings and the rush of our day’s pursuits, we
are the believers in justice and liberty and union.  And in
our own union we believe that every man must some day
be free.  And we believe in ourselves. For this is what our
country is all about.  It is the uncrossed desert and the
unclimbed bridge.  It is the star that is not reached and the
harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our
world gone?  We say farewell, is a new world coming? 
We welcome it – and we will bend it to the hopes of man.
But you must look within your own hearts to the
old promises and to the old dreams.  They will lead you
the best of all.

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