DEVAL PATTRIC ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
Deval Patrick’s Acceptance Speech
1. Paragraph 1: “Today, November 7, 2006, the people of Massachusetts chose by a decisive margin to take their government back.”
Paragraph 2: “This was a victory for hope.”
Paragraph 3: - “by coming to you, where you live and work, by listening to you, by showing that we could disagree with each other without being disagreeable, by asking you to put your cynicism down, by refusing to build myself up by tearing anybody else down, by challenging you to see your stake in your neighbor’s dreams and struggles as well as your own, we built what history will record is the broadest and best-organized grassroots organization this Commonwealth has ever seen.” (impactful outcome)
Paragraph 4: “Every kind of person is here. You come from every corner of the Commonwealth.”
Paragraph 5: “You know that we deserve better and we are better than that. And for a chance at a better and more hopeful future, you built bridges some of you never thought could be built across all kinds of differences -and then you crossed them.”
Paragraph 6: “And the magic is that you have come together not just for your own dreams and your own aspirations, but for each others’. “
Paragraph 7: “It has always been yours. The real heroes here are the thousands of you, here and at home, many who have never been involved before in a political campaign, who set aside what you were doing to get involved, who confronted your despair about the direction our Commonwealth has been heading in, and decided to take responsibility for her future.”
2. The main idea of this passage is how the people of Massachusetts chose by a decisive margin to take their government back. Being such a good government worker, he states how this win was not just a victory for him and his fellow Democrats, if not victory for hope as well. Through peaceful, logical, and wholehearted means with the society, such as by challenging others to see their stake in their neighbor’s dreams and
1. Paragraph 1: “Today, November 7, 2006, the people of Massachusetts chose by a decisive margin to take their government back.”
Paragraph 2: “This was a victory for hope.”
Paragraph 3: - “by coming to you, where you live and work, by listening to you, by showing that we could disagree with each other without being disagreeable, by asking you to put your cynicism down, by refusing to build myself up by tearing anybody else down, by challenging you to see your stake in your neighbor’s dreams and struggles as well as your own, we built what history will record is the broadest and best-organized grassroots organization this Commonwealth has ever seen.” (impactful outcome)
Paragraph 4: “Every kind of person is here. You come from every corner of the Commonwealth.”
Paragraph 5: “You know that we deserve better and we are better than that. And for a chance at a better and more hopeful future, you built bridges some of you never thought could be built across all kinds of differences -and then you crossed them.”
Paragraph 6: “And the magic is that you have come together not just for your own dreams and your own aspirations, but for each others’. “
Paragraph 7: “It has always been yours. The real heroes here are the thousands of you, here and at home, many who have never been involved before in a political campaign, who set aside what you were doing to get involved, who confronted your despair about the direction our Commonwealth has been heading in, and decided to take responsibility for her future.”
2. The main idea of this passage is how the people of Massachusetts chose by a decisive margin to take their government back. Being such a good government worker, he states how this win was not just a victory for him and his fellow Democrats, if not victory for hope as well. Through peaceful, logical, and wholehearted means with the society, such as by challenging others to see their stake in their neighbor’s dreams and