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John Kerry calls on us to hope. "If you're organizing churches," they said, "it might be helpful if you went to church once in a while." And I thought, "Well, I guess that makes sense." So when they are told to bus their children to a school across town; when they hear that an African American is getting an advantage in landing a good job or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed; when they're told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.
So doing the Lord's work is a thread that's run through our politics since the very beginning. God is still speaking. Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has played a role in acts of hostage-taking and violence against U.S. The Talmud tells us: "The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace."
In a sense, what brought me to Chicago in the first place was a hunger for some sort of meaning in my life. We need to heed the biblical call to care for "the least of these" and lift the poor out of despair. I'll help our auto companies re-tool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America. This issue has been a source of tension between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. On science and technology, we will launch a new fund to support technological development in Muslim-majority countries, and to help transfer ideas to the marketplace so they can create jobs.
Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. And God is still speaking. Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time. Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today's black and white students.
He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. But it does find voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table. And next week, we'll also hear about those occasions when he's broken with his party as evidence that he can deliver the change that we need. And I've seen it in this campaign. Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust. In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically-elected Iranian government.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.