A National Day of Unity

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 14 (Monday, January 25, 2021)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 7003-7004] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2021-01748] [[Page 7001]] Vol. 86 Monday, No. 14 January 25, 2021 Part II The President ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Proclamation 10140--A National Day of Unity Proclamation 10141--Ending Discriminatory Bans on Entry to the United States Executive Order 13985--Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government Executive Order 13986--Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census Executive Order 13987--Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID- 19 and To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security Executive Order 13988--Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 86 , No. 14 / Monday, January 25, 2021 / Presidential Documents ___________________________________________________________________ Title 3-- The President [[Page 7003]] Proclamation 10140 of January 20, 2021 A National Day of Unity By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation I am humbled before God and my fellow Americans to take the sacred oath of President of our beloved country. Today, we celebrate the triumph of democracy after an election that saw more Americans voting than ever before in our Nation's history, and where the will of the people has been heard and heeded. We do so at a moment of great peril and promise for our Nation. A once-in-a-century deadly pandemic. A historic and deepening economic crisis. Calls for racial justice some 400 years in the making. A climate crisis with force and fury. We also feel the rise in political extremism and domestic terrorism--unleashed just days ago on our Capitol, the citadel of freedom, but brewing long before--that we must confront and defeat. Yet in this dire moment, democracy prevailed. On this day, we set our sights on the Nation we know we can and must be. I am honored to do so alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman who has taken the oath to serve in elected national office, and who will not be the last. Together, we know that to overcome the challenges before all of us, to restore the soul of America, requires the beating heart of a democracy: Unity. With unity, we can save lives and beat this pandemic. We can build our economy back better and include everyone. We can right wrongs and root out systemic racism in our country. We can confront the climate crisis with American jobs and ingenuity. We can protect our democracy by seeing each other not as adversaries but as fellow Americans. For the world to see, with unity we can lead not just by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. As we start the hard work to be done, I pray this moment gives us the strength to rebuild this house of ours upon a rock that can never be washed away. And, as in the Prayer of St. Francis, for where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith, where there is darkness, light. On this Inauguration Day I swear an oath to be a President for all Americans and ask every American to join me in this cause of democracy. May this be the story that unites us as fellow Americans and as the United States of America. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 20, 2021, a National Day of Unity and call upon the people of our Nation to join together and write the next story of our democracy--an American story of decency and dignity, of love and of healing, and of greatness and of goodness. [[Page 7004]] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty- fifth. (Presidential Sig.) [FR Doc. 2021-01748 Filed 1-22-21; 11:15 am] Billing code 3295-F1-P