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Consensus and compromise will not come easy. Ironically, this quintessentially American - and yes, conservative - notion of self-help found frequent expression in Reverend Wright's sermons. That's the change we need right now.
If there is a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. That's why organizations are rising up across the country to reclaim the language of faith to bring about change. We're not going to agree on everything, but we can disagree without being disagreeable. She had been working to organize a mostly African-American community since the beginning of this campaign, and one day she was at a roundtable discussion where everyone went around telling their story and why they were there. 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. Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has played a role in acts of hostage-taking and violence against U.S.
His father - my grandfather - was a cook, a domestic servant to the British. But I think they also sensed that a part of me remained removed and detached - that I was an observer in their midst. This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news. The sooner the extremists are isolated and unwelcome in Muslim communities, the sooner we will all be safer. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation.
This year, in this election, we are called to reaffirm our values and our commitments, to hold them against a hard reality and see how we are measuring up, to the legacy of our forbearers, and the promise of future generations. Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. This last point is important because there are some who advocate for democracy only when they are out of power; once in power, they are ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.
It's not enough, but it's helping. Too many tears have flowed.
Thank you.