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The UCC is still listening. He does not say that he was there because of Barack Obama. That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat. Some suggest that it isn't worth the effort - that we are fated to disagree, and civilizations are doomed to clash.
Wright deliver a sermon called "The Audacity of Hope." And during the course of that sermon, he introduced me to someone named Jesus Christ. And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright.
I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible. But it also means binding our particular grievances - for better health care, and better schools, and better jobs - to the larger aspirations of all Americans - the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling, the white man whose been laid off, the immigrant trying to feed his family. And while America in the past has focused on oil and gas in this part of the world, we now seek a broader engagement.
They know we can do better. I thought of the 900 men and women - sons and daughters, husbands and wives, friends and neighbors, who won't be returning to their own hometowns. I learned that those things I was too weak to accomplish myself, He would accomplish with me if I placed my trust in Him. The skeptical bent of my mind didn't suddenly vanish. Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism.
Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered.
Thank you very much everybody.