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These enemies must be found. It's been several months now since I announced I was running for president. The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America. Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven't fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. Well it's time for them to own their failure. For part of what has been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits.
So one Sunday, I put on one of the few clean jackets I had, and went over to Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street on the South Side of Chicago. That's why organizations are rising up across the country to reclaim the language of faith to bring about change. I would not be running for President if I didn't believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. As Commander-in-Chief, I will never hesitate to defend this nation, but I will only send our troops into harm's way with a clear mission and a sacred commitment to give them the equipment they need in battle and the care and benefits they deserve when they come home. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. They have killed people of different faiths - more than any other, they have killed Muslims.
That promise is our greatest inheritance. As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. But if we see this conflict only from one side or the other, then we will be blind to the truth: the only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. Indeed, faith should bring us together. The Internet and television can bring knowledge and information, but also offensive sexuality and mindless violence.
Indeed, we can recall the words of Thomas Jefferson, who said: "I hope that our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be." The sixth issue that I want to address is women's rights. That is why the United States will partner with any Muslim-majority country to support expanded literacy for girls, and to help young women pursue employment through micro-financing that helps people live their dreams.
John Kerry believes in an America where all Americans can afford the same health coverage our politicians in Washington have for themselves. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787. They weren't simply a religious leader's effort to speak out against perceived injustice. Of course, recognizing our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. For peace to come, it is time for them - and all of us - to live up to our responsibilities. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation.
God bless you.