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"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." Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. In the young people who voted for the first time, and in those who got involved again after a very long time. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement. These things we share.
I believe we can provide jobs to the jobless, homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair. America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done.
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. America, we cannot turn back. Finally, the Arab States must recognize that the Arab Peace Initiative was an important beginning, but not the end of their responsibilities. It will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust, but we will proceed with courage, rectitude and resolve.
I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered.
So doing the Lord's work is a thread that's run through our politics since the very beginning. Let us be our sister's keeper. When Washington doesn't work, all its promises seem empty. Because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children. Now is the time for Palestinians to focus on what they can build. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.