"I'm running for President to break the shackles of fear which have deprived our citizens of rights..." 

"...The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul..I am running for President of the United States to enable the goddess of peace to encircle within her reach all the children of this country and all the children of the world. And to protect our children from poverty and war, to hold them in the light of grace, and to hold them in the power of peace. I am running to challenge that system! We will challenge that system! We will change the system!...I am running for President of the United States to challenge this system which traps so many of Americans, children and adults, in fear, in violence and poverty and makes us pay for wars we don't want...I am running for President of the United States to create a cabinet-level Department of Peace and Nonviolence...The Department of Peace will facilitate the dream and vision of Dr. Martin Luther King, that dream which still seeks to make nonviolence an organizing principle in our society, and we can do that, through education, we can do that, through teaching our children peace-sharing, peace-giving and mutuality...I will facilitate rejoining the world community...We must begin this process of reconciliation and healing...I'm running for President to break the shackles of fear which have deprived our citizens of rights...I am Dennis John Kucinich and I am running for President of the United States!"

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