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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. Progress in the daily lives of the Palestinian people must be part of a road to peace, and Israel must take concrete steps to enable such progress.
I didn't fall out in church, as folks sometimes do. And that it's not enough to just believe this - we have to do our part to make it a reality. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles - principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
It is not up in heaven. As such, Reverend Wright's comments were not only wrong but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity; racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems - two wars, a terrorist threat, a falling economy, a chronic health care crisis and potentially devastating climate change; problems that are neither black or white or Latino or Asian, but rather problems that confront us all. These people are a part of me. We seek no military bases there. The second major source of tension that we need to discuss is the situation between Israelis, Palestinians and the Arab world. It's a faith in other people, and it's what brought me here today.
And John Kerry believes that in a dangerous world war must be an option sometimes, but it should never be the first option. So it's 1985, and I'm in Chicago, and I'm working with these churches, and with lots of laypeople who are much older than I am. 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. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words - within our borders, and around the world. But let us be clear: al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on that day.
Thank you.