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It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper that makes this country work. I was not raised in a particularly religious household. It's a racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years. America, our work will not be easy. Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich.
When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world. He is a man who served his country as a U.S. Marine; who has studied and lectured at some of the finest universities and seminaries in the country, and who for over thirty years led a church that serves the community by doing God's work here on Earth - by housing the homeless, ministering to the needy, providing day care services and scholarships and prison ministries, and reaching out to those suffering from HIV/AIDS. The men and women who gathered there could've heard many things. America respects the right of all peaceful and law-abiding voices to be heard around the world, even if we disagree with them. It's a belief that pulsed in the cradle of civilization, and that still beats in the heart of billions.
After the war, they studied on the G.I. But as Americans, we also know that this is a nation of laws, and we cannot have those laws broken when more than 2,000 people cross our borders illegally every day. Let's come together - Protestant and Catholic, Muslim and Hindu and Jew, believer and non-believer alike. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust. Among some Muslims, there is a disturbing tendency to measure one's own faith by the rejection of another's.
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. Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country. Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. And as so many generations have come to realize over the course of the two-hundred and twenty one years since a band of patriots signed that document in Philadelphia, that is where the perfection begins. Now is the time to change our bankruptcy laws, so that your pensions are protected ahead of CEO bonuses; and the time to protect Social Security for future generations. America respects the right of all peaceful and law-abiding voices to be heard around the world, even if we disagree with them.
Thank you.