Mitt Romney gave a pretty spirited (all around \u2014 he went off script after being booed for saying he\u2019d repeal the president\u2019s health-care law) speech to the NAACP convention it. He ended it with this tribute to his father and our Father: <\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t just that my Dad helped write the civil rights provision for the Michigan Constitution, though he did. It wasn\u2019t just that he helped create Michigan\u2019s first civil rights commission, or that as governor he marched for civil rights in Detroit \u2013 though he did those things, too. <\/p>\n
More than these public acts, it was the kind of man he was, and the way he dealt with every person, black or white. He was a man of the fairest instincts, and a man of faith who knew that every person was a child of God.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m grateful to him for so many things, and above all for the knowledge of God, whose ways are not always our ways, but whose justice is certain and whose mercy endures forever. <\/p>\n
Every good cause on this earth relies in the end on a plan bigger than ours. \u201cWithout dependence on God,\u201d as Dr. King said, \u201cour efforts turn to ashes and our sunrises into darkest night. Unless his spirit pervades our lives, we find only what G. K. Chesterton called \u2018cures that don\u2019t cure, blessings that don\u2019t bless, and solutions that don\u2019t solve.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Of all that you bring to the work of today\u2019s civil rights cause, no advantage counts for more than this abiding confidence in the name above every name. Against cruelty, arrogance, and all the foolishness of man \u2026\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There\u2019s sure something to that \u2026 <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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