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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. Individual responsibility and mutual responsibility - that's the essence of America's promise. This issue has been a source of tension between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Each nation gives life to this principle in its own way, grounded in the traditions of its own people.
And when the Civil War was fought and our country dedicated itself to a new birth of freedom, they took on the problems of an industrializing nation - fighting the crimes against society and the sins against God that they felt were being committed in our factories and in our slums. And we should close Guantanamo Bay and stop tolerating the torture of our enemies. Not even close. But I stand before you tonight because all across America something is stirring. No single speech can eradicate years of mistrust, nor can I answer in the time that I have all the complex questions that brought us to this point.
In this election, we offer that choice. Because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children. Some suggest that it isn't worth the effort - that we are fated to disagree, and civilizations are doomed to clash.
I learned that my sins could be redeemed. "People began to shout, to rise from their seats and clap and cry out, a forceful wind carrying the reverend's voice up into the rafters....And in that single note - hope! - I heard something else; at the foot of that cross, inside the thousands of churches across the city, I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion's den, Ezekiel's field of dry bones. This history is well known. Among some Muslims, there is a disturbing tendency to measure one's own faith by the rejection of another's.
It's a journey that takes us back to our nation's founding, when none other than a UCC church inspired the Boston Tea Party and helped bring an Empire to its knees. Too many tears have flowed. I understand those who protest that some countries have weapons that others do not.
Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.