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Clearly, the past 50 years have not weakened your resolve as faithful witnesses of the gospel. But we cannot walk away this time. I'll help our auto companies re-tool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America.
It wasn't until after college, when I went to Chicago to work as a community organizer for a group of Christian churches, that I confronted my own spiritual dilemma. They're telling me that their conversation about what it means to be Catholic continues. And just as we keep our keep our promise to the next generation here at home, so must we keep America's promise abroad. I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States, and I have ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed by early next year. All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed (peace be upon them) joined in prayer.
This is a problem that's brought together churches and synagogues and mosques and people of all faiths as part of a grassroots movement. This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work. This history is well known.
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. But there's a story I want to share that takes place before Moses passed the mantle of leadership on to Joshua. Legalized discrimination - where blacks were prevented, often through violence, from owning property, or loans were not granted to African-American business owners, or black homeowners could not access FHA mortgages, or blacks were excluded from unions, or the police force, or fire departments - meant that black families could not amass any meaningful wealth to bequeath to future generations. Now let there be no doubt. And when innocents in Bosnia and Darfur are slaughtered, that is a stain on our collective conscience. It's a faith in other people, and it's what brought me here today.
I thought of the families I've met who were struggling to get by without a loved one's full income, or whose loved ones had returned with a limb missing or nerves shattered, but who still lacked long-term health benefits because they were Reservists. They want a sense of purpose, a narrative arc to their lives. 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. Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story - of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren't well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to. As President, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power.
Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.