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I wanted to be part of something larger. In my first book, Dreams From My Father, I described the experience of my first service at Trinity: It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams; that investing in the health, welfare, and education of black and brown and white children will ultimately help all of America prosper. 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. This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.
Let's come together - Protestant and Catholic, Muslim and Hindu and Jew, believer and non-believer alike. I'll help our auto companies re-tool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America. Without these ingredients, elections alone do not make true democracy.
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. That's not what I'm talking about. The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful.
This year, in this election, we are called to reaffirm our values and our commitments, to hold them against a hard reality and see how we are measuring up, to the legacy of our forbearers, and the promise of future generations. Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. But it also comes from my own American story. For more than sixty years they have endured the pain of dislocation. Israel must also live up to its obligations to ensure that Palestinians can live, and work, and develop their society.
And John Kerry believes that in a dangerous world war must be an option sometimes, but it should never be the first option. The questions I had didn't magically disappear. The obligations that the parties have agreed to under the Road Map are clear. The Internet and television can bring knowledge and information, but also offensive sexuality and mindless violence.
God bless you.