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And fellow Americans, Democrats, Republicans, Independents - I say to you tonight: we have more work to do. God is still speaking. So let's rededicate ourselves to a new kind of politics - a politics of conscience. The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America. Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third. And next week, we'll also hear about those occasions when he's broken with his party as evidence that he can deliver the change that we need.
"People began to shout, to rise from their seats and clap and cry out, a forceful wind carrying the reverend's voice up into the rafters....And in that single note - hope! - I heard something else; at the foot of that cross, inside the thousands of churches across the city, I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion's den, Ezekiel's field of dry bones. They claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes and the abandonment of traditional values.
A belief in things not seen. So one Sunday, I put on one of the few clean jackets I had, and went over to Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street on the South Side of Chicago. But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. Many bring up a specific issue. The sixth issue that I want to address is women's rights.
For instance, in the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation. And while America in the past has focused on oil and gas in this part of the world, we now seek a broader engagement.
The skeptical bent of my mind didn't suddenly vanish. They held vigils across this country when four little girls were killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church.
Thank you, and God bless America.