PHILADELPHIA, the United States, Jan. 17 President-elect Barack Obama delivered a speech here on Saturday before embarking on a "whistle stop" train journey to Washington, calling on fellow Americans to carry on the spirit of the American revolution and deal with today's challenges with courage and confidence.
Faced with unprecedented challenges such as the financial crisis, two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the global climate change, the nation needs "the same perseverance and idealism that our founders displayed," Obama told more than 200 supporters at an indoor invitation-only event in the North Waiting Room of the 30thStreet Station.
America needs "a new declaration of independence, not just in our nation, but in our own lives -- independence from ideology and small thinking, independence from prejudice and bigotry, independence from selfishness," said the president-elect.
"We are here today not simply to pay tribute to our first patriots but to take up the work that they began. The trials we face are very different now, but severe in their own right," said Obama.
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