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The hope of a millworker's son who dares to defy the odds. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people.
Yet what we also understand is that our values should express themselves not just through our churches or synagogues, temples or mosques; they should express themselves through our government. 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. Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven't fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election. And now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons. Among some Muslims, there is a disturbing tendency to measure one's own faith by the rejection of another's.
I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. Let us be our brother's keeper, Scripture tells us. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. We must always examine the ways in which we protect it. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort - a sustained effort - to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
After the war, they studied on the G.I. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America's story. All these things must be done in partnership.
In this election, we offer that choice. All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed (peace be upon them) joined in prayer.
Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.