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I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity. King delivered his prayer for our country. And in all these ways, they helped make this country more decent and more just. We can do that. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people.
The dream of opportunity for all people has not come true for everyone in America, but its promise exists for all who come to our shores - that includes nearly seven million American Muslims in our country today who enjoy incomes and education that are higher than average. Over seven years ago, the United States pursued al Qaeda and the Taliban with broad international support.
We will all have to make concessions to achieve this. As William Faulkner once wrote, "The past isn't dead and buried. Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naive as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy - particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own. Our government should work for us, not against us. 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.
John Kerry understands the ideals of community, faith, and service because they've defined his life. And it's around this time that some pastors I was working with came up to me and asked if I was a member of a church. Last time we took up immigration reform, it failed. 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. That history helps explain the wealth and income gap between black and white, and the concentrated pockets of poverty that persists in so many of today's urban and rural communities. And today, as my call for a time frame to remove our troops from Iraq has been echoed by the Iraqi government and even the Bush Administration, even after we learned that Iraq has a $79 billion surplus while we're wallowing in deficits, John McCain stands alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war.
Let me be clear. But I think they also sensed that a part of me remained removed and detached - that I was an observer in their midst. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco.
Thank you.