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Again and again, we've seen him make tough choices when easier ones were available. Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. These people are a part of me. Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today's black and white students. This too is part of America's promise - the promise of a democracy where we can find the strength and grace to bridge divides and unite in common effort.
Because the Iraq war is not just a security problem, it's a moral problem. Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naive as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy - particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own. troops and civilians. That is why the United States will partner with any Muslim-majority country to support expanded literacy for girls, and to help young women pursue employment through micro-financing that helps people live their dreams.
So it's 1985, and I'm in Chicago, and I'm working with these churches, and with lots of laypeople who are much older than I am. Given my background, my politics, and my professed values and ideals, there will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough. Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land - enough! This moment - this election - is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive. Because if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. That is what it means to share this world in the 21st century. So let there be no doubt: the situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable.
And so they need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them - that they are not just destined to travel down that long road toward nothingness. That's the change we need right now.
Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution. This truth transcends nations and peoples - a belief that isn't new; that isn't black or white or brown; that isn't Christian, or Muslim or Jew.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.