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And yet, I know that, on this night, they look down on me with great pride. John Kerry believes in the Constitutional freedoms that have made our country the envy of the world, and he will never sacrifice our basic liberties, nor use faith as a wedge to divide us. So one Sunday, I put on one of the few clean jackets I had, and went over to Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street on the South Side of Chicago. She knew that food was one of their most expensive costs, and so Ashley convinced her mother that what she really liked and really wanted to eat more than anything else was mustard and relish sandwiches. Because it feeds into the cynicism we all have about government. The Talmud tells us: "The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace."
"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 yet, to wish away the resentments of white Americans, to label them as misguided or even racist, without recognizing they are grounded in legitimate concerns - this too widens the racial divide, and blocks the path to understanding.
The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation. I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity. They're looking to relieve a chronic loneliness. Our conscience cannot rest so long as nearly 45 million Americans don't have health insurance and the millions more who do are going bankrupt trying to pay for it.
And yet, I know that, on this night, they look down on me with great pride. More to do for the young woman in East St. Today there are 12 million undocumented immigrants in America, most of them working in our communities, attending our churches, and contributing to our country. This was one of the tasks we set forth at the beginning of this campaign - to continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America. What's remarkable is not how many failed in the face of discrimination, but rather how many men and women overcame the odds; how many were able to make a way out of no way for those like me who would come after them.
Iraq's sovereignty is its own. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive, but it is being challenged in many different ways. Some suggest that it isn't worth the effort - that we are fated to disagree, and civilizations are doomed to clash.
Thank you very much everybody.