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They know those things. 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.
My father, who I didn't know, returned to Kenya when I was just two. And Ashley said that when she was nine years old, her mother got cancer. It should help us, not hurt us. It is easy to point fingers - for Palestinians to point to the displacement brought by Israel's founding, and for Israelis to point to the constant hostility and attacks throughout its history from within its borders as well as beyond. That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.
There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America - there's the United States of America. I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. But this much is clear: governments that protect these rights are ultimately more stable, successful and secure.
But by the time he was a young adult, he was an atheist. We have to do what we can, knowing it's hard and not swinging from a naive idealism to a bitter defeatism - but rather, accepting the fact that we're not going to solve every problem overnight, but we can still make a difference. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. In the young people who voted for the first time, and in those who got involved again after a very long time. America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.
Let's come together - Protestant and Catholic, Muslim and Hindu and Jew, believer and non-believer alike. "People began to shout, to rise from their seats and clap and cry out, a forceful wind carrying the reverend's voice up into the rafters....And in that single note - hope! - I heard something else; at the foot of that cross, inside the thousands of churches across the city, I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion's den, Ezekiel's field of dry bones. And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American. Out of work? Tough luck. If John McCain wants to follow George Bush with more tough talk and bad strategy, that is his choice - but it is not the change we need. And I've seen it in this campaign.
Thank you very much everybody.