The State of the Union Address | Biden contrasts “honesty and decency” with Trump’s “anger, hatred and revenge” | USA Elections

The closing fragments of the speech

“I was born in the middle of World War II, when America was defending freedom in the world. I grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Claymont, Delaware, among the hard-working people who built this country. I watched in horror as two of my heroes were murdered, Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy, and their legacy inspired me to pursue a career of service. Public defender, county councilman, elected United States Senator at age 29, then Vice President, to our first black president, now president, with our first female vice president. In my career I have been told that I am too young and that I am too old. Young or old, I have always known what endures. Our North Star. The very idea of ​​America, that we are all created equal and we deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives. We have never fully lived up to that idea, but we have never moved away from it either. And I will not move away from it now. Fellow Americans, the problem facing our nation It is not the age we are, but the age of our ideas. Hatred, anger, revenge, retribution are among the oldest ideas. But you can’t lead America with old ideas that only set us back. To lead America, the land of possibilities, you need a forward-looking vision of what America can and should be.”