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Wright deliver a sermon called "The Audacity of Hope." And during the course of that sermon, he introduced me to someone named Jesus Christ. Religious leaders like my friends Rev. Jim Wallis and Rabbi David Saperstein and Nathan Diament are working for justice and fighting for change. Universities and states, including Illinois, are taking part in a divestment campaign to pressure the Sudanese government to stop the killings. I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. And Ashley said that when she was nine years old, her mother got cancer.
In a sense, what brought me to Chicago in the first place was a hunger for some sort of meaning in my life. In the end, then, what is called for is nothing more, and nothing less, than what all the world's great religions demand - that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. And when one of his chief advisors - the man who wrote his economic plan - was talking about the anxiety Americans are feeling, he said that we were just suffering from a "mental recession," and that we've become, and I quote, "a nation of whiners."
A belief in things not seen. But my journey is part of a larger journey - one shared by all who've ever sought to apply the values of their faith to our society. Their experience is the immigrant experience - as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything, they've built it from scratch. It is where our union grows stronger. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. We are a better country than this.
They held vigils across this country when four little girls were killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church. To the Joshua generation, these challenges seem momentous - and they are. That won't keep America safe.
We have to do what we can, knowing it's hard and not swinging from a naive idealism to a bitter defeatism - but rather, accepting the fact that we're not going to solve every problem overnight, but we can still make a difference. But I have asserted a firm conviction - a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people - that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice is we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union. And just as we keep our keep our promise to the next generation here at home, so must we keep America's promise abroad. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. Instead, it must be a cause for action to help the Palestinian people develop the institutions that will sustain their state; to recognize Israel's legitimacy; and to choose progress over a self-defeating focus on the past. Many more are simply skeptical that real change can occur.
Thank you very much everybody.