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I believe that we have a righteous wind at our backs and that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us. They want a sense of purpose, a narrative arc to their lives. And it's a testament to what we can achieve when good people with strong convictions stand up for their beliefs. No health care? The market will fix it. And Democrats, we must also admit that fulfilling America's promise will require more than just money. And that's what we have to restore.
They came of age in the late fifties and early sixties, a time when segregation was still the law of the land and opportunity was systematically constricted. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. And when innocents in Bosnia and Darfur are slaughtered, that is a stain on our collective conscience. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights. Many more are simply skeptical that real change can occur.
But somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. They came of age in the late fifties and early sixties, a time when segregation was still the law of the land and opportunity was systematically constricted. But my personal story is not so unique.
If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription drugs, and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandparent. I am emphasizing such investments within my country.
I stand here today, grateful for the diversity of my heritage, aware that my parents' dreams live on in my two precious daughters. Louis, and thousands more like her, who has the grades, has the drive, has the will, but doesn't have the money to go to college. John Kerry believes in energy independence, so we aren't held hostage to the profits of oil companies, or the sabotage of foreign oil fields. In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive. You understand that in this election, the greatest risk we can take is to try the same old politics with the same old players and expect a different result.
Thank you very much everybody.