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The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too. 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. And I'll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy - wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced. We are the party of Roosevelt. But what the people heard instead - people of every creed and color, from every walk of life - is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked.

Let's come together - Protestant and Catholic, Muslim and Hindu and Jew, believer and non-believer alike. Unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America. That does not mean we should ignore sources of tension. America will align our policies with those who pursue peace, and say in public what we say in private to Israelis and Palestinians and Arabs.

Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. Now let there be no doubt. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed.

Her father worked on oil rigs and farms through most of the Depression. This is the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election. Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. And occasionally it finds voice in the church on Sunday morning, in the pulpit and in the pews.

God bless you.