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We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. America! Tonight, if you feel the same energy that I do, if you feel the same urgency that I do, if you feel the same passion I do, if you feel the same hopefulness that I do - if we do what we must do, then I have no doubts that all across the country, from Florida to Oregon, from Washington to Maine, the people will rise up in November, and John Kerry will be sworn in as president, and John Edwards will be sworn in as vice president, and this country will reclaim its promise, and out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come. In a sense, what brought me to Chicago in the first place was a hunger for some sort of meaning in my life.
E pluribus unum. And finally they come to this elderly black man who's been sitting there quietly the entire time. Trade can bring new wealth and opportunities, but also huge disruptions and changing communities.
Go into the collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you they don't want their tax money wasted, by a welfare agency or by the Pentagon. My father, who I didn't know, returned to Kenya when I was just two. In the face of that young student who sleeps just three hours before working the night shift, I think about my mom, who raised my sister and me on her own while she worked and earned her degree; who once turned to food stamps but was still able to send us to the best schools in the country with the help of student loans and scholarships. In the young people who voted for the first time, and in those who got involved again after a very long time. Their actions are irreconcilable with the rights of human beings, the progress of nations, and with Islam. Many Gulf States have enjoyed great wealth as a consequence of oil, and some are beginning to focus it on broader development.
His father - my grandfather - was a cook, a domestic servant to the British. This is a problem that's brought together churches and synagogues and mosques and people of all faiths as part of a grassroots movement. King's birthday at his home church, Ebenezer Baptist, in Atlanta. When John McCain said we could just "muddle through" in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights. All these things must be done in partnership.
I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners - an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain.
Thank you, and God bless America.