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This is the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up. She had been working to organize a mostly African-American community since the beginning of this campaign, and one day she was at a roundtable discussion where everyone went around telling their story and why they were there. Part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience. For we have learned from recent experience that when a financial system weakens in one country, prosperity is hurt everywhere. The fourth issue that I will address is democracy. 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.
This is a problem that's brought together churches and synagogues and mosques and people of all faiths as part of a grassroots movement. And occasionally it finds voice in the church on Sunday morning, in the pulpit and in the pews. We are the party of Kennedy. The fifth issue that we must address together is religious freedom.
Again and again, we've seen him make tough choices when easier ones were available. I didn't fall out in church, as folks sometimes do.
Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. And nothing will change. Because in the faces of those young veterans who come back from Iraq and Afghanistan, I see my grandfather, who signed up after Pearl Harbor, marched in Patton's Army, and was rewarded by a grateful nation with the chance to go to college on the GI Bill. These are the policies I will pursue.
For the men and women of Reverend Wright's generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years. If John McCain wants to follow George Bush with more tough talk and bad strategy, that is his choice - but it is not the change we need.
God bless you.