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Back home, my grandmother raised their baby and went to work on a bomber assembly line. They want a sense of purpose, a narrative arc to their lives. They are moral problems, rooted in both societal indifference and individual callousness - in the imperfections of man.
Yes, we must provide more ladders to success for young men who fall into lives of crime and despair. If your hopes have been dashed again and again, then it's best to stop hoping, and settle for what you already know. They could've heard words of anger and discord. Iraq's sovereignty is its own. The Palestinian Authority must develop its capacity to govern, with institutions that serve the needs of its people.
Not just with words, but with deeds - by investing in our schools and our communities; by enforcing our civil rights laws and ensuring fairness in our criminal justice system; by providing this generation with ladders of opportunity that were unavailable for previous generations. The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids, and we will not let them fall behind in a 21st century economy.
Religious leaders like my friends Rev. Jim Wallis and Rabbi David Saperstein and Nathan Diament are working for justice and fighting for change. Legalized discrimination - where blacks were prevented, often through violence, from owning property, or loans were not granted to African-American business owners, or black homeowners could not access FHA mortgages, or blacks were excluded from unions, or the police force, or fire departments - meant that black families could not amass any meaningful wealth to bequeath to future generations.
And when these battles were overtaken by others and when the wars they opposed were waged and won, these faithful foot soldiers for justice kept marching. So I've got news for you, John McCain.
Thank you very much everybody.