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I believe we can provide jobs to the jobless, homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair. The President vetoed a similar plan, but he doesn't have the last word, and we're going to keep at it, until we bring this war to an end. Because the Iraq war is not just a security problem, it's a moral problem. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered. Fear that because of modernity we will lose of control over our economic choices, our politics, and most importantly our identities - those things we most cherish about our communities, our families, our traditions, and our faith.
I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. This time we want to talk about the fact that the real problem is not that someone who doesn't look like you might take your job; it's that the corporation you work for will ship it overseas for nothing more than a profit. If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America's founding.
John Edwards calls on us to hope. That's not what I'm talking about. Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. The fundamentals we use to measure economic strength are whether we are living up to that fundamental promise that has made this country great - a promise that is the only reason I am standing here tonight. She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life.
As William Faulkner once wrote, "The past isn't dead and buried. For the men and women of Reverend Wright's generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years. Perhaps somebody told her along the way that the source of her mother's problems were blacks who were on welfare and too lazy to work, or Hispanics who were coming into the country illegally. And yet Al Qaeda chose to ruthlessly murder these people, claimed credit for the attack, and even now states their determination to kill on a massive scale.
I didn't fall out in church, as folks sometimes do. That is the responsibility we have to one another as human beings. Too many tears have flowed. The Holy Bible tells us, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God."
God bless you.