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The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation. King delivered his prayer for our country. Part of it's because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who've been all too eager to exploit what divides us. That's why I've been fighting to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and the minimum wage. He simply says to everyone in the room, "I am here because of Ashley." With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.
But at the end of the day, we cannot walk away - not for the sake of passing a bill, but so that we can finally address the real concerns of Americans and the persistent hopes of all those brothers and sisters who want nothing more than their own chance at our common dream. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.
To the Joshua generation, these challenges seem momentous - and they are. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news.
Now, some of you may have heard me talk about the Joshua generation. Legalized discrimination - where blacks were prevented, often through violence, from owning property, or loans were not granted to African-American business owners, or black homeowners could not access FHA mortgages, or blacks were excluded from unions, or the police force, or fire departments - meant that black families could not amass any meaningful wealth to bequeath to future generations. I don't know what kind of lives John McCain thinks that celebrities lead, but this has been mine. On economic development, we will create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries.
She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. That is the world we seek.
Thank you, and God bless America.