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Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. He said that our economy has made "great progress" under this President. We are shaped by every culture, drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept: E pluribus unum: "Out of many, one." They have killed people of different faiths - more than any other, they have killed Muslims.
In the Republicans who never thought they'd pick up a Democratic ballot, but did. That is why I intend to personally pursue this outcome with all the patience that the task requires. So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other. It's a belief that pulsed in the cradle of civilization, and that still beats in the heart of billions.
The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. It's a promise I make to my daughters when I tuck them in at night, and a promise that you make to yours - a promise that has led immigrants to cross oceans and pioneers to travel west; a promise that led workers to picket lines, and women to reach for the ballot. Much has been made of the fact that an African-American with the name Barack Hussein Obama could be elected President. Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.
And today, we import triple the amount of oil as the day that Senator McCain took office. We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. Palestinians must abandon violence. America will align our policies with those who pursue peace, and say in public what we say in private to Israelis and Palestinians and Arabs.
He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation.
Thank you very much everybody.