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They cheered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial when Dr. It got hijacked. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95% of all working families. The issues that I have described will not be easy to address.
I was not raised in a particularly religious household. America, now is not the time for small plans. Change happens because the American people demand it - because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country. Many Gulf States have enjoyed great wealth as a consequence of oil, and some are beginning to focus it on broader development.
Let's come together - Protestant and Catholic, Muslim and Hindu and Jew, believer and non-believer alike. 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. Like the anger within the black community, these resentments aren't always expressed in polite company. But the record's clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush ninety percent of the time. When John McCain said we could just "muddle through" in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights. But what the people heard instead - people of every creed and color, from every walk of life - is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked.
But my grandfather had larger dreams for his son. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. And I will restore our moral standing, so that America is once again that last, best hope for all who are called to the cause of freedom, who long for lives of peace, and who yearn for a better future. America, we cannot turn back. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. But we have a responsibility to join together on behalf of the world we seek - a world where extremists no longer threaten our people, and American troops have come home; a world where Israelis and Palestinians are each secure in a state of their own, and nuclear energy is used for peaceful purposes; a world where governments serve their citizens, and the rights of all God's children are respected.
And John Kerry believes that in a dangerous world war must be an option sometimes, but it should never be the first option. Like other predominantly black churches across the country, Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety - the doctor and the welfare mom, the model student and the former gang-banger. And nothing will change. And today, we import triple the amount of oil as the day that Senator McCain took office. But what the people heard instead - people of every creed and color, from every walk of life - is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked. Because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children.
Thank you.