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But my grandfather had larger dreams for his son. But they have helped shape the political landscape for at least a generation. This is where we are right now. He does not say that he was there because of Barack Obama. You don't protect Israel and deter Iran just by talking tough in Washington.
They held vigils across this country when four little girls were killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church. The fundamentals we use to measure economic strength are whether we are living up to that fundamental promise that has made this country great - a promise that is the only reason I am standing here tonight. These are my heroes. It was Islam - at places like Al-Azhar University - that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment.
In the following century, men and women of faith waded into the battles over prison reform and temperance, public education and women's rights - and above all, abolition. In South Carolina, where the Confederate Flag still flies, we built a powerful coalition of African Americans and white Americans. On one end of the spectrum, we've heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it's based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap. It's not because John McCain doesn't care. 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. We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past.
That is one option. It's time for us to change America. That's not the judgment we need. This bond is unbreakable. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed.
That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. And I want to particularly say this to young people of every faith, in every country - you, more than anyone, have the ability to remake this world.
Thank you very much everybody.