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I've seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbors who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. In all nations - including my own - this change can bring fear.
But what we know - what we have seen - is that America can change. And then another one. Now Ashley might have made a different choice.
And we cannot ignore the very real concerns of Americans who are not worried about illegal immigration because they are racist or xenophobic, but because they fear it will result in lower wages when they're already struggling to raise their families. We are a better country than this. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. There will be many issues to discuss between our two countries, and we are willing to move forward without preconditions on the basis of mutual respect. The sixth issue that I want to address is women's rights. I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal, but I do believe that a woman who is denied an education is denied equality.
That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe. Yet what we also understand is that our values should express themselves not just through our churches or synagogues, temples or mosques; they should express themselves through our government.
The day after Pearl Harbor my grandfather signed up for duty; joined Patton's army, marched across Europe. "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. This time we want to talk about how the lines in the Emergency Room are filled with whites and blacks and Hispanics who do not have health care; who don't have the power on their own to overcome the special interests in Washington, but who can take them on if we do it together.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.