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Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask? Why not join another church? And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and You Tube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way The sooner the extremists are isolated and unwelcome in Muslim communities, the sooner we will all be safer. Many wait in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring lands for a life of peace and security that they have never been able to lead. Too many tears have flowed.
It's the wisdom Moses imparted to those who would succeed him. But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn't make it - those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. I am a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims.
A belief that there are better days ahead. For eighteen long months, you have stood up, one by one, and said enough to the politics of the past. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. And finally, just as America can never tolerate violence by extremists, we must never alter our principles.
John Kerry believes in an America where all Americans can afford the same health coverage our politicians in Washington have for themselves. "We cannot walk alone," the preacher cried. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles - principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
King delivered his prayer for our country. I suppose the politically safe thing would be to move on from this episode and just hope that it fades into the woodwork. They have killed people of different faiths - more than any other, they have killed Muslims.
Thank you very much everybody.