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Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today's black and white students. With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.
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. 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. I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth and carrying out His works.
Change happens because the American people demand it - because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time. Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire.
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy. That is one option. And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations - to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God. Because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children. Fear that because of modernity we will lose of control over our economic choices, our politics, and most importantly our identities - those things we most cherish about our communities, our families, our traditions, and our faith.
And when the Civil War was fought and our country dedicated itself to a new birth of freedom, they took on the problems of an industrializing nation - fighting the crimes against society and the sins against God that they felt were being committed in our factories and in our slums. He's still speaking to our Catholic friends - who are holding up a consistent ethic of life that goes beyond abortion - one that includes a respect for life and dignity whether it's in Iraq, in poor neighborhoods, in African villages or even on death row. I do not believe that women must make the same choices as men in order to be equal, and I respect those women who choose to live their lives in traditional roles.
God bless you.