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To the Joshua generation, these challenges seem momentous - and they are. It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams; that investing in the health, welfare, and education of black and brown and white children will ultimately help all of America prosper. Those are mutual interests.
But I've got news for them, too. I've been speaking to a lot of churches recently, so it's nice to be speaking to one that's so familiar. But I think they also sensed that a part of me remained removed and detached - that I was an observer in their midst. The challenges we face require tough choices, and Democrats as well as Republicans will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past. The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind; and whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus.
Anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan Coalition. We are the party of Roosevelt. The Holy Koran tells us, "O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another."
I will end this war in Iraq responsibly, and finish the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. That is why there is a mosque in every state of our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders.
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 I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. Finally, I want to discuss economic development and opportunity.
God bless you.