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After the war, they studied on the G.I. You know, a while back, I met a young man named Shamus [Seamus?] in a V.F.W. Our conscience cannot rest so long as nearly 45 million Americans don't have health insurance and the millions more who do are going bankrupt trying to pay for it. There is real evil and hardship and pain and suffering in the world and we should be humble in our belief that we can eliminate them. As the Holy Koran tells us, "Be conscious of God and speak always the truth." That is what I will try to do - to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.
That's why organizations are rising up across the country to reclaim the language of faith to bring about change. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Because I've lived it. Not with so much work to be done. But we will support a secure and united Iraq as a partner, and never as a patron. That is the world we seek.
It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each other with dignity and respect. For part of what has been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits. I know there are many - Muslim and non-Muslim - who question whether we can forge this new beginning.
I believe that we have a righteous wind at our backs and that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us. A lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one's family, contributed to the erosion of black families - a problem that welfare policies for many years may have worsened. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well. As Commander-in-Chief, I will never hesitate to defend this nation, but I will only send our troops into harm's way with a clear mission and a sacred commitment to give them the equipment they need in battle and the care and benefits they deserve when they come home. If your hopes have been dashed again and again, then it's best to stop hoping, and settle for what you already know. So let there be no doubt: the situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable.
I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that, in no other country on earth, is my story even possible. "People began to shout, to rise from their seats and clap and cry out, a forceful wind carrying the reverend's voice up into the rafters....And in that single note - hope! - I heard something else; at the foot of that cross, inside the thousands of churches across the city, I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion's den, Ezekiel's field of dry bones. And in the weeks ahead, I look forward to debating them with John McCain. This issue has been a source of tension between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Those are not just American ideas, they are human rights, and that is why we will support them everywhere. We will open centers of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and appoint new Science Envoys to collaborate on programs that develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, clean water, and grow new crops.
God bless you.