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Religious leaders like my friends Rev. Jim Wallis and Rabbi David Saperstein and Nathan Diament are working for justice and fighting for change. There is a young, twenty-three year old white woman named Ashley Baia who organized for our campaign in Florence, South Carolina. And because she had to miss days of work, she was let go and lost her health care. She knew that food was one of their most expensive costs, and so Ashley convinced her mother that what she really liked and really wanted to eat more than anything else was mustard and relish sandwiches. It's a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their responsibilities to create American jobs, look out for American workers, and play by the rules of the road. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future.
But Moses says: What I am commanding you is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. Anyway, Ashley finishes her story and then goes around the room and asks everyone else why they're supporting the campaign. The Bush-McCain foreign policy has squandered the legacy that generations of Americans - Democrats and Republicans - have built, and we are here to restore that legacy. So let there be no doubt: the situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable.
But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side, I felt I heard God's spirit beckoning me. But if we see this conflict only from one side or the other, then we will be blind to the truth: the only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security.
And meeting them won't be easy. That is true genius of this nation. Kennedy called our "intellectual and moral strength." Yes, government must lead on energy independence, but each of us must do our part to make our homes and businesses more efficient. But this much is clear: governments that protect these rights are ultimately more stable, successful and secure.
They would give me an African name, Barack, or "blessed," believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend. Our problems must be dealt with through partnership; progress must be shared. Indeed, faith should bring us together.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.