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Consensus and compromise will not come easy. Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity. And next week, we'll also hear about those occasions when he's broken with his party as evidence that he can deliver the change that we need. We all put our country first.
Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation to provide every child a world-class education, because it will take nothing less to compete in the global economy. I believe that as hard as it will be, the change we need is coming.
We have to do what we can, knowing it's hard and not swinging from a naive idealism to a bitter defeatism - but rather, accepting the fact that we're not going to solve every problem overnight, but we can still make a difference. But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. Let us find that common stake we all have in one another, and let our politics reflect that spirit as well. What has also been lost is our sense of common purpose - our sense of higher purpose. That is why we will honor our agreement with Iraq's democratically-elected government to remove combat troops from Iraqi cities by July, and to remove all our troops from Iraq by 2012.
King's birthday at his home church, Ebenezer Baptist, in Atlanta. America, now is not the time for small plans. And it is my first duty as President to protect the American people. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered. It is easier to blame others than to look inward; to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share.
Today there are 12 million undocumented immigrants in America, most of them working in our communities, attending our churches, and contributing to our country. Last time we took up immigration reform, it failed. Because we all have the capacity to do justice and show mercy; to treat others with dignity and respect; and to rise above what divides us and come together to meet those challenges we can't meet alone. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles - principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed.
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