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\"Brandenburg<\/a>

The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin used to separate East and West Berlin. Now thousands walk under and through it, able now to pass freely from one side to the other since the Wall came down in 1989.<\/p><\/div>\n

Today I stood, as if I could hear voices from the past, present and the future\u00a0of both horror and hope, but hope won.\u00a0 For today I walked through the\u00a0Brandenburg Gate, which used to separate East from West Berlin as one of the most famous places in the Berlin Wall.\u00a0 I remember standing there in 1980, looking at the sign that said “Attention,\u00a0you are leaving West Berlin,” horrified by Checkpoint Charlie and\u00a0the feeling of oppression\u00a0being subjected to soldiers with machine guns ruling over life in East Berlin.<\/p>\n

It was as if I could hear both the voices of the past – the wail of horror that must have gone up\u00a0when the wall went up – and the voices of the present –\u00a0and you said it couldn’t be done!<\/p>\n

And\u00a0I found\u00a0President Reagan’s words from the past:<\/p>\n

Today (1987) I say: as long as the gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand, it is not the German question alone tht remains open, but the question of freedom for all mankind.\u00a0 Yet I do not come here to lament.\u00a0 For I find in Berlin a message of hope, even in the shadow of this wall, a message of triumph….<\/em><\/p>\n

…this wall will fall.\u00a0 For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth.\u00a0 The wall cannot withstand freedom.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I stand tonight to salute all those Palestinians,\u00a0Israelis and internationals\u00a0– and there are many – whose collective voice will one day overshadow the wallbuilders and the settlement expanders and the\u00a0rocket launchers.\u00a0 Don’t give up, even in the face of evidence that that wall – and injustice and oppression and fear – will stand forever scarring your land.\u00a0 It won’t, there are too many working and praying and yearning for freedom and truth to win the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Can you not almost hear the cry from the future:\u00a0 and they said it couldn’t be done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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