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So let's rededicate ourselves to a new kind of politics - a politics of conscience. Theirs are the stories that shaped me.
And until we stop the genocide that's being carried out in Darfur as I speak, our conscience cannot rest. Now, some of you may have heard me talk about the Joshua generation. But what we know - what we have seen - is that America can change. Let us be our sister's keeper. 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. But that same principle must apply to Muslim perceptions of America.
I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the start-ups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow. Indeed, it suggests the opposite: we must face these tensions squarely. The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind; and whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind. The obligations that the parties have agreed to under the Road Map are clear.
They are moral problems, rooted in both societal indifference and individual callousness - in the imperfections of man. I've gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nations. I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95% of all working families. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America - they have served the United States of America. This same story can be told by people from South Africa to South Asia; from Eastern Europe to Indonesia. There need not be contradiction between development and tradition.
I'm not talking about blind optimism here - the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't think about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. Perhaps somebody told her along the way that the source of her mother's problems were blacks who were on welfare and too lazy to work, or Hispanics who were coming into the country illegally.
Thank you very much everybody.