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But then I asked myself: Are we serving Shamus as well as he is serving us? The hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores. We measure progress in the 23 million new jobs that were created when Bill Clinton was President - when the average American family saw its income go up $7,500 instead of down $2,000 like it has under George Bush. That's not the judgment we need. I am aware that some question or justify the events of 9/11.
Wright deliver a sermon called "The Audacity of Hope." And during the course of that sermon, he introduced me to someone named Jesus Christ. And until we do, our conscience cannot rest. But it also means binding our particular grievances - for better health care, and better schools, and better jobs - to the larger aspirations of all Americans - the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling, the white man whose been laid off, the immigrant trying to feed his family. It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each other with dignity and respect. Now is the time for Palestinians to focus on what they can build.
From Willow Creek to the 'emerging church,' from the Southern Baptist Convention to the National Association of Evangelicals, folks are realizing that the four walls of the church are too small for a big God.God is still speaking. We meet at one of those defining moments - a moment when our nation is at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has been threatened once more. Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps - even if you don't have boots.
Our Party has chosen a man to lead us who embodies the best this country has to offer. This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can't learn; that those kids who don't look like us are somebody else's problem. America, this is one of those moments. On economic development, we will create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries.
Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787. It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams; that investing in the health, welfare, and education of black and brown and white children will ultimately help all of America prosper. America, we cannot turn back. The Holy Bible tells us, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God."
God bless you.