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More work to do for the workers I met in Galesburg, Ill., who are losing their union jobs at the Maytag plant that's moving to Mexico, and now are having to compete with their own children for jobs that pay seven bucks an hour. 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. They saw that I knew the Scriptures and that many of the values I held and that propelled me in my work were values they shared. That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. But what we know - what we have seen - is that America can change. And that is why we are providing more than $2.8 billion to help Afghans develop their economy and deliver services that people depend upon.
Not just with words, but with deeds - by investing in our schools and our communities; by enforcing our civil rights laws and ensuring fairness in our criminal justice system; by providing this generation with ladders of opportunity that were unavailable for previous generations. I've seen it in Washington, when we worked across party lines to open up government and hold lobbyists more accountable, to give better care for our veterans and keep nuclear weapons out of terrorist hands. 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. And I will host a Summit on Entrepreneurship this year to identify how we can deepen ties between business leaders, foundations and social entrepreneurs in the United States and Muslim communities around the world. The people of the world can live together in peace.
I stand here today, grateful for the diversity of my heritage, aware that my parents' dreams live on in my two precious daughters. That is the responsibility we have to one another as human beings. This is a difficult responsibility to embrace. Indeed, we can recall the words of Thomas Jefferson, who said: "I hope that our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be."
Last time we took up immigration reform, it failed. That is the responsibility we have to one another as human beings.
It's that folks are hungry for change - they're hungry for something new. That history helps explain the wealth and income gap between black and white, and the concentrated pockets of poverty that persists in so many of today's urban and rural communities.
Thank you very much everybody.