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More to do for the father that I met who was losing his job and choking back the tears, wondering how he would pay $4,500 a month for the drugs his son needs without the health benefits that he counted on. John Kerry calls on us to hope. At times, that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politician's own failings. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.
I've gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nations. The truth is, on issue after issue that would make a difference in your lives - on health care and education and the economy - Senator McCain has been anything but independent. This bond is unbreakable. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights.
Universities and states, including Illinois, are taking part in a divestment campaign to pressure the Sudanese government to stop the killings. We cannot walk alone. We are shaped by every culture, drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept: E pluribus unum: "Out of many, one." They have killed in many countries. 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.
All these things must be done in partnership. It is easier to blame others than to look inward; to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share.
"If you're organizing churches," they said, "it might be helpful if you went to church once in a while." And I thought, "Well, I guess that makes sense." But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts - that out of many, we are truly one. A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud auto workers at a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made. We measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage; whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college diploma. That's not the judgment we need. On education, we will expand exchange programs, and increase scholarships, like the one that brought my father to America, while encouraging more Americans to study in Muslim communities.
Thank you, and God bless America.