Edward M. Kennedy: “I have come here tonight to stand with you, to change America, to restore its future, to rise to our best ideals, and to…”

The work goes on. The cause endures. The hope still lives. And the dream shall never die.

The hope rises again.

We're going to come back. As you know, you know, it took for Africans-Americans, for gay Americans, for women, the struggle for equal rights and justice took many, many years and so, too, it is in the disability rights movement.

What we face is, above all, a moral issue that at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country.