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And yet, I know that, on this night, they look down on me with great pride. It's been several months now since I announced I was running for president. And they are a part of America, this country that I love. It's a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their responsibilities to create American jobs, look out for American workers, and play by the rules of the road. 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. That is why we are forging service projects in America that bring together Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
And today, we import triple the amount of oil as the day that Senator McCain took office. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. Without these ingredients, elections alone do not make true democracy.
Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. And John Kerry believes that in a dangerous world war must be an option sometimes, but it should never be the first option. But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side, I felt I heard God's spirit beckoning me. But somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. That's what compromise is about. And today, we import triple the amount of oil as the day that Senator McCain took office.
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. So it's 1985, and I'm in Chicago, and I'm working with these churches, and with lots of laypeople who are much older than I am. Even for those blacks who did make it, questions of race, and racism, continue to define their worldview in fundamental ways.
She had been working to organize a mostly African-American community since the beginning of this campaign, and one day she was at a roundtable discussion where everyone went around telling their story and why they were there. I realize that I am not the likeliest candidate for this office. There is no straight line to realize this promise.
God bless you.