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If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. Our conscience can't rest so long as 37 million Americans are poor and forgotten by their leaders in Washington and by the media elites. That's why I've been fighting to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and the minimum wage. It's because John McCain doesn't get it. America, our work will not be easy.
Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. My father, who I didn't know, returned to Kenya when I was just two. But what my former pastor too often failed to understand is that embarking on a program of self-help also requires a belief that society can change. Instead, it must be a cause for action to help the Palestinian people develop the institutions that will sustain their state; to recognize Israel's legitimacy; and to choose progress over a self-defeating focus on the past.
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. The challenges we face require tough choices, and Democrats as well as Republicans will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past.
It was because of these newfound understandings that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity one day and affirm my Christian faith. But it also means binding our particular grievances - for better health care, and better schools, and better jobs - to the larger aspirations of all Americans - the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling, the white man whose been laid off, the immigrant trying to feed his family. I know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk. We must always examine the ways in which we protect it.
John Kerry understands the ideals of community, faith, and service because they've defined his life. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality. In that time, he's said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, no to investments in renewable energy, no to renewable fuels. 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. The same is true for the astonishing progress within Muslim-majority countries from Kuala Lumpur to Dubai.
Thank you.