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And meeting them won't be easy. This is the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up. There is one story in particularly that I'd like to leave you with today - a story I told when I had the great honor of speaking on Dr. Many bring up a specific issue. We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan determined to kill as many Americans as they possibly can. I know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in recent years, and much of this controversy is connected to the war in Iraq.
Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land - enough! This moment - this election - is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive. Change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it. But I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less - because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy. You make a big election about small things. 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.
Washington's been talking about our oil addiction for the last thirty years, and John McCain has been there for twenty-six of them. So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. This is the hope of all humanity.
The hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores. We shouldn't use the obstacles we face as an excuse for cynicism.
I've gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nations. But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. Change comes to Washington.
Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.