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Each of us in our own lives needs to do what we can to help the poor. 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. You make a big election about small things. The sooner the extremists are isolated and unwelcome in Muslim communities, the sooner we will all be safer.
Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed; a Washington dominated by lobbyists and special interests; economic policies that favor the few over the many. This time we want to talk about the shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race, and the homes for sale that once belonged to Americans from every religion, every region, every walk of life. And it is that promise that forty five years ago today, brought Americans from every corner of this land to stand together on a Mall in Washington, before Lincoln's Memorial, and hear a young preacher from Georgia speak of his dream.
The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids, and we will not let them fall behind in a 21st century economy. Today, America has a dual responsibility: to help Iraq forge a better future - and to leave Iraq to Iraqis. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America's founding. And I want to particularly say this to young people of every faith, in every country - you, more than anyone, have the ability to remake this world.
And I heard Reverend Jeremiah A. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. It's a story that hasn't made me the most conventional candidate. Our trials and triumphs became at once unique and universal, black and more than black; in chronicling our journey, the stories and songs gave us a means to reclaim memories that we didn't need to feel shame about...memories that all people might study and cherish - and with which we could start to rebuild." What the nay-sayers don't understand is that this election has never been about me. Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.
So let me spell out exactly what that change would mean if I am President. That won't keep America safe. This last point is important because there are some who advocate for democracy only when they are out of power; once in power, they are ruthless in suppressing the rights of others. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.
Thank you.