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In that time, I've had the chance to talk with Americans all across this country. 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. Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news. This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich.
I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy. With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. For part of what has been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits. "And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back." This history is well known.
I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe. But it should be their choice.
They would give me an African name, Barack, or "blessed," believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. We have real enemies in the world. We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off to look after a sick kid without losing her job - an economy that honors the dignity of work. The men and women who gathered there could've heard many things.
And I'm glad to see that. But the record's clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush ninety percent of the time. Passions fly on immigration, but I don't know anyone who benefits when a mother is separated from her infant child or an employer undercuts American wages by hiring illegal workers. Their actions are irreconcilable with the rights of human beings, the progress of nations, and with Islam.
Thank you.