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They would give me an African name, Barack, or "blessed," believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription drugs, and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandparent. I didn't fall out in church, as folks sometimes do. But it also comes from my own American story. Indeed, none of us should tolerate these extremists. The Holy Koran tells us, "O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another."
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. It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women.
This year, in this election, we are called to reaffirm our values and our commitments, to hold them against a hard reality and see how we are measuring up, to the legacy of our forbearers, and the promise of future generations. Theirs are the stories that shaped me. This issue has been a source of tension between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
And fellow Americans, Democrats, Republicans, Independents - I say to you tonight: we have more work to do. But I also get the sense that there's a hunger that's deeper than that - a hunger that goes beyond any single cause or issue. So doing the Lord's work is a thread that's run through our politics since the very beginning.
John Kerry believes in an America where all Americans can afford the same health coverage our politicians in Washington have for themselves. It means continuing to insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life. Meanwhile, the struggle for women's equality continues in many aspects of American life, and in countries around the world. But I also know that human progress cannot be denied. The Talmud tells us: "The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace."
Thank you very much everybody.