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His father - my grandfather - was a cook, a domestic servant to the British. They would give me an African name, Barack, or "blessed," believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. It's that folks are hungry for change - they're hungry for something new. But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush. And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman. But I will also renew the tough, direct diplomacy that can prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and curb Russian aggression.
I understand those who protest that some countries have weapons that others do not. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country.
We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. These are my heroes. It's been about you. And I've seen it in this campaign. Now let me be clear: issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.
E pluribus unum. And all across the country, communities of faith are sponsoring day care programs, building senior centers, and in so many other ways, taking part in the project of American renewal. It is not up in heaven. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she's playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies. And that's what we have to restore.
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. I'm not talking about blind optimism here - the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't think about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. And that's what we have to restore. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers - Thomas Jefferson - kept in his personal library. On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. Among some Muslims, there is a disturbing tendency to measure one's own faith by the rejection of another's.
God bless you.