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We can dismiss Reverend Wright as a crank or a demagogue, just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro, in the aftermath of her recent statements, as harboring some deep-seated racial bias. They've worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. But it is clear to all concerned that when it comes to nuclear weapons, we have reached a decisive point.
That's what compromise is about. In South Carolina, where the Confederate Flag still flies, we built a powerful coalition of African Americans and white Americans. Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask? Why not join another church? And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and You Tube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way And because she had to miss days of work, she was let go and lost her health care. And that's to be expected. Fear that because of modernity we will lose of control over our economic choices, our politics, and most importantly our identities - those things we most cherish about our communities, our families, our traditions, and our faith.
I was not raised in a particularly religious household. It's not because John McCain doesn't care. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America's founding. Now let me be clear: issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.
After the war, they studied on the G.I. And when the Civil War was fought and our country dedicated itself to a new birth of freedom, they took on the problems of an industrializing nation - fighting the crimes against society and the sins against God that they felt were being committed in our factories and in our slums. People are coming together around a simple truth - that we are all connected, that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper. What's remarkable is not how many failed in the face of discrimination, but rather how many men and women overcame the odds; how many were able to make a way out of no way for those like me who would come after them. These are my heroes. For more than sixty years they have endured the pain of dislocation.
It's that folks are hungry for change - they're hungry for something new. And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. It's a belief that pulsed in the cradle of civilization, and that still beats in the heart of billions.
Thank you, and God bless America.