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These are some of the challenges that test our conscience - as Americans and people of faith. Because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle-class. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. Likewise, many Israelis recognize the need for a Palestinian state. Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. Some suggest that it isn't worth the effort - that we are fated to disagree, and civilizations are doomed to clash.
She had this enormous capacity for wonder, and lived by the Golden Rule. And so long as we're not doing everything in our personal and collective power to solve them, we know the conscience of our nation cannot rest. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam. Many Gulf States have enjoyed great wealth as a consequence of oil, and some are beginning to focus it on broader development.
But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. Because in the faces of those young veterans who come back from Iraq and Afghanistan, I see my grandfather, who signed up after Pearl Harbor, marched in Patton's Army, and was rewarded by a grateful nation with the chance to go to college on the GI Bill. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security. That commitment is at the core of the Treaty, and it must be kept for all who fully abide by it.
And we should close Guantanamo Bay and stop tolerating the torture of our enemies. That's the promise of America - the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper.
It was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations. This belief comes from my unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people. We can dismiss Reverend Wright as a crank or a demagogue, just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro, in the aftermath of her recent statements, as harboring some deep-seated racial bias.
Thank you, and God bless America.