What else Reagan said in Berlin

Reagan challenged Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall in his 1987 speech at the Brandenburg Gate. The whole speech is worth reading again. Here is a part you don't see quoted frequently today:

"Perhaps this gets to the root of the matter, to the most fundamental distinction of all between East and West. The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront. Years ago, before the East Germans began rebuilding their churches, they erected a secular structure: the television tower at Alexander Platz. Virtually ever since, the authorities have been working to correct what they view as the tower's one major flaw, treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every kind. Yet even today when the sun strikes that sphere--that sphere that towers over all Berlin--the light makes the sign of the cross. There in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be suppressed."

Let us take confidence, brothers, that the light of the Cross comes through darkness. God, who cannot be mocked, will always leave a testimony!