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Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. And the lack of basic services in so many urban black neighborhoods - parks for kids to play in, police walking the beat, regular garbage pick-up and building code enforcement - all helped create a cycle of violence, blight and neglect that continue to haunt us. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. Although I believe that the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible.

It is not enough to give health care to the sick, or jobs to the jobless, or education to our children. When a new flu infects one human being, all are at risk. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners of it. Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich.

She was born in a town on the other side of the world, in Kansas. They cheered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial when Dr. And in all these ways, they helped make this country more decent and more just. But we must also admit that programs alone can't replace parents; that government can't turn off the television and make a child do her homework; that fathers must take more responsibility for providing the love and guidance their children need.

But I've got news for them, too. Theirs are the stories that shaped me. We seek no military bases there.

And so they need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them - that they are not just destined to travel down that long road toward nothingness. Because whether it's poverty or racism, the uninsured or the unemployed, war or peace, the challenges we face today are not simply technical problems in search of the perfect ten-point plan. Let us find that common stake we all have in one another, and let our politics reflect that spirit as well. But we will support a secure and united Iraq as a partner, and never as a patron.

Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.