From sea to shining sea, we're rooting for you, America

Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies
And we walked off to look for America
Cathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America  
— Paul Simon

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - 
there is the United States of America. 
There is not a black America and a white America 
and latino America and asian America - 
there's the United States of America.
— Barack Obama

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; 
only light can do that. 
Hate cannot drive out hate; 
only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King, jr

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
— Martin Luther King, jr

We must learn to live together as brothers 
or perish together as fools.
— Martin Luther King, jr

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus 
but a moulder of consensus. 
— Martin Luther King, jr

​illustration by Alison Hackett, 2 Nov 2020